· Public charity
Lila H Borgstrom Foundation
The foundation is exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, whose purposes include, without limitation, providing grants and making distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAVEN YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| CANCER FOR COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS | $10,000 |
| HEARTS TO ART CAMP | $10,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS | $10,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $10,000 |
| MERCY HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS | $10,000 |
| NOCC TEAL TOTE | $10,000 |
| SHRINERS CHILDREN'S CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| BIG SHOULDERS FUND | $10,000 |
| RUBY'S RAINBOW | $7,000 |
| CULINARY CARE | $7,000 |
| CAMP KIDS ARE KIDS CHICAGO | $7,000 |
| BY THE HAND CLUB FOR KIDS | $7,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Shoulders Fund and the most unlike its peers is Ruby's Rainbow. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CREATIVE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER FOR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Culinary Care ↗
- Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
- Who funds CAMP KIDS ARE KIDS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds RUBY'S RAINBOW ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Lila H Borgstrom Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.