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Lisle Community Service Corporation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$83k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$101kFood & Nutrition$63kEducation$47kArts & Culture$39kHousing & Shelter$38kReligion$20kHealth$10kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$5,000
BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC$5,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS$5,000
PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES$5,000
CASA OF DU PAGE COUNTY INC$5,000
HOPE'S FRONT DOOR$5,000
TEEN PARENT CONNECTION$5,000
ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY$5,000
SAMARITAN INTERFAITH COUNSELING CEN$5,000
WEST SUBURBAN COMMUNITY PANTRY$5,000
DUPAGE PADS$5,000
LOAVES FISHES$5,000
LISLE COMMUNITY BAND$5,000
SHARING CONNECTIONS$5,000
LISLE HERITAGE SOCIETY$4,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%SHARING CONNECTIONS: $5k → 7%DAYBREAK OF LISLE: $5k → 7%SHARING CONNECTIONS: $5k → 7%DAYBREAK OF LISLE: $5k → 7%SHARING CONNECTIONS: $5k → 7%DAYBREAK OF LISLE: $5k → 7%SHARING CONNECTIONS: $5k → 7%DAYBREAK OF LISLE: $5k → 7%SHARING CONNECTIONS: $5k → 7%SHARING CONNECTIONS: $5k → 7%FAMILY SHELTER SERVICES: $4k → 7%HOPE'S FRONT DOOR: $5k → 7%HOPE'S FRONT DOOR: $5k → 7%HOPE'S FRONT DOOR: $5k → 7%HOPE'S FRONT DOOR: $5k → 7%HOPE'S FRONT DOOR: $5k → 7%HOPE'S FRONT DOOR: $5k → 7%FRIENDS FOR LISLE TOWNSHIP: $1k → 7%FRIENDS FOR LISLE TOWNSHIP: $974 → 7%FRIENDS FOR LISLE TOWNSHIP: $750 → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$319k · 18 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
2

Total granted

$319k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+333%

Still filing today

56%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterReligionHealthCrime & LegalCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • HF
    HOPE'S FRONT DOOR
    6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +42%
  • SC
    SHARING CONNECTIONS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +73%
  • WS
    WEST SUBURBAN COMMUNITY PANTRY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +173%

Funded once

  • FS
    Family Shelter Service Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +333%
  • NL
    NAPERVILLE LISLE TOWNSHIP TRIAD
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Illinois Community for Displaced Immigrants

Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.

Human Services
2
Dupage Housing Solutions Inc

Provide permanent supportive housing for individuals and families who have been chronically homeless as the result of a disability, such as mental health, substance abuse or disabling health conditions.

Housing & Shelter
3
Depaul Community Services Inc

To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses

Health
4
Center for Family Services

Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…

Human Services
5
South Suburban Pads

Inter-faith program providing shelter and supportive services to homeless persons. compassion, hospitality and dignity are key characteristics of the pads program.

Human Services
6
Pads Lake County Inc

The mission of PADS Lake County is to stand as a community based organization that provides trauma-informed support, resources, and shelter to individuals and families experiencing a housing crisis. We envision a community in which…

Health
7
Dayone Pact

Dayone pact is committed to assisting individuals with disabilities live engaged and meaningful lives through independent service coordination.

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8
Illinois Partners for Human Service

Illinois Partners for Human Service's primary activities are (1) strengthening human services in communities throughout Illinois by building a unified human services sector; (2) working with leaders, the public, and others engaged in the…

Human Services
9
Child Link Inc

Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…

Human Services
10
Respond Now

Respond now connects those in need with health, hunger, and housing services in the chicago southland.

Human Services
11
Care for Friends

Care for Friends provides fundamental food, clothing and healthcare programs for individuals in Chicago experiencing or at risk of homelessness. Our "no questions asked" policy removes the most common barriers to assistance and allows us…

Human Services
12
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc

The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Suburban Community Pantry Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan Interfaith Counseling Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEST SUBURBAN COMMUNITY PANTRY INC: $30,000 · OtherWEST SUBURBAN COMMUNITY PANTRY INCLOAVES FISHES: $30,000 · OtherLOAVES FISHESLISLE COMMUNITY BAND: $23,750 · OtherLISLE COMMUNITY BANDTEEN PARENT CONNECTION INC: $22,000 · OtherTEEN PARENT CONNECTION INCLISLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL: $22,000 · OtherLISLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLLISLE HERITAGE SOCIETY: $15,400 · OtherLISLE HERITAGE SOCIETYIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBENET ACADEMY: $12,000 · OtherBENET ACADEMYNAPERVILLE NORTH HIGH SCHOOL: $11,000 · OtherNAPERVILLE NORTH HIGH SCHOOLSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS: $10,000 · Other+2 more: $3,325 · OtherHOPE'S FRONT DOOR: $30,000 · Human ServicesHOPE'S FRONT DOORSHARING CONNECTIONS INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesSHARING CONNECTIONS INCDAYBREAK OF LISLE: $20,000 · Human ServicesDAYBREAK OF LISLEFamily Shelter Service Inc: $3,750 · Human ServicesFRIENDS FOR LISLE TOWNSHIP: $3,009 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ROCKFORD COUNCIL: $20,000 · ReligionDUPAGE PADS INC: $12,500 · Housing & ShelterBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterSamaritan Interfaith Counseling Center: $10,000 · HealthPRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC: $5,000 · Crime & LegalCASA OF DUPAGE COUNTY INC: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Other$194,475Human Services$86,759Religion$20,000Housing & Shelter$17,500Health$10,000Crime & Legal$5,000Civil Rights$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOPE'S FRONT DOOR: $30,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetSHARING CONNECTIONS INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWEST SUBURBAN COMMUNITY PANTRY INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTEEN PARENT CONNECTION INC: $22,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDAYBREAK OF LISLE: $20,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ROCKFORD COUNCIL: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDUPAGE PADS INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan Interfaith Counseling Center: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF DUPAGE COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFamily Shelter Service Inc: $3,750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS FOR LISLE TOWNSHIP: $3,009 over 3y, 2.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds HOPE'S FRONT DOOR ↗
  • Who funds SHARING CONNECTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST SUBURBAN COMMUNITY PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds TEEN PARENT CONNECTION INC ↗
  • Who funds DAYBREAK OF LISLE ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ROCKFORD COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds DUPAGE PADS INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds Samaritan Interfaith Counseling Center ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF DUPAGE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Family Shelter Service Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS FOR LISLE TOWNSHIP ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Dupage Community FoundationIL23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dupage Community Foundation · The Bersted Foundation · Exchange Club Charitable Organization · Community Memorial Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Naperville Rotary Charities Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Northern Illinois Food Bank · AbbVie Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lisle Community Service Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lisle Community Service Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Lisle Community Service Corporation?

    Find your warmest path to Lisle Community Service Corporation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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