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Little Village Environmental Justice Org
In addition, the organization provided fiscal agency services to the Chicago Frontlines Funding Initiative and Chicago Asian Americans for Environmental Justice.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $9,990 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $15,830 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,840 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Grow Greater Englewood | $9,990 |
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 (FY18–22, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
The Organization facilitates and informs the development of and advocacy for responsible policies improving the food sovereignty of Chicago residents as they have power and control to determine culturally appropriate, nutritionally sound…
Green Chicago Restaurant Coalition's Guaranteed Green Sustainability Education Program educates foodservice operators about assessing the present state of their operation's environmental sustainability and helps them to develop a plan to…
In addition, the organization provided fiscal agency services to the Chicago Frontlines Funding Initiative and Chicago Asian Americans for Environmental Justice.
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
Community Movement Builders CMB is a member based collective of black people dedicated to being a force for creating sustainable self-determining communities through cooperative economic advancement and collective community organizing. Our…
The GardenWorks Project promotes organic suburban agriculture to improve the well-being of our community, the environment, and those facing food insecurity. We empower, educate, and support all food growers in their efforts to nourish…
To promote good, clean, and fair food in Chicago.
The St. Anthony Park Community Council is where residents and businesses come together on vital neighborhood interests that enhance the quality of life, strengthen the character and vitality of the community, and ensure the effectiveness…
SECC collaborates with other University of Chicago businesses and organizations to foster a spirit of community and to enhance ongoing quality of life across neighborhoods it serves
Our work is directed toward neighborhood empowerment through expert resource collaborations, community engagement, and implementing initiatives that serve and impact the community.
Greenaction mobilizes community power to win victories that change govenment and corporate policies and practices to protect health and promote environmental, economic and social justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Neighborhood Technology and the most unlike its peers is Blocks Together. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 19 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 GROW GREATER ENGLEWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST ENVIRONMENTAL TASK FORCE ↗
- Who funds THE DELTA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Teamwork Englewood Inc ↗
- Who funds TELPOCHCALLI COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL AMERICAN MARTYRS CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLOCKS TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds Resilience Partners NFP ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CICERO-BERWYN-STICKNEY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Street Vendors Association of Chicago ↗
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: Forefront · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Builders Vision Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Chicago Beyond Inc · Walder Foundation · Crossroads Fund Inc · Field Foundation of Illinois · Movement Strategy Center · Greater Chicago Food Depository
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 Little Village Environmental Justice Org 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.
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.
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