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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.

$16k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
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01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$159kEnvironment$96kCommunity Improvement$62kReligion$34kHealth$18kYouth Development$18kHuman Services$18kCivil Rights$17kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $9,990, the rows itemized in this filing. The $15,830 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,840 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$9,990
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Grow Greater Englewood$9,990
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Telpochcalli Community Education Project: $18k → 14%CBS Anti-Hunger Foundation: $14k → 14%Central American Martyrs for Su Casa: $18k → 14%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 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.

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Chicago's Environmental Fund
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Chicago Food Policy Action Council

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…

Food & Nutrition
3
Green Chicago Restaurant Coalition

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…

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4
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
5
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.

Recreation & Sports
6
Community Movement Builders Inc

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…

Public Benefit
7
Tree Eastie Inc

Environmental Justice

Environment
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South East Chicago Commission

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

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9
Slow Food Chicago

To promote good, clean, and fair food in Chicago.

Food & Nutrition
10
The Gardenworks Project

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…

Recreation & Sports
11
St Anthony Park Community Council

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…

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12
Achieving Community Task Successfully

Our work is directed toward neighborhood empowerment through expert resource collaborations, community engagement, and implementing initiatives that serve and impact the community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Neighborhood Technology; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 19 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/13
Grantees still filing
3/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $41,645 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHREE LITTLE BIRDS GARDENS: $17,500 · OtherTHREE LITTLE BIRDS GARDENSHealth Policy Institute of Ch: $17,500 · OtherHealth Policy Institute of ChCatatumbo Cooperative: $17,142 · OtherCatatumbo CooperativeAMOR DE DIOS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $17,142 · OtherAMOR DE DIOS UNITED METHODIST CHURCHJUAN CARLOS CEDILLO-PEREZ: $17,142 · OtherJUAN CARLOS CEDILLO-PEREZUN NUEVO DESPERTAR: $17,142 · OtherUN NUEVO DESPERTARBLOCKS TOGETHER: $17,142 · OtherBLOCKS TOGETHERMidwest Foods: $8,100 · OtherTHE DELTA INSTITUTE: $40,000 · Community ImprovementTHE DELTA INSTITUTETeamwork Englewood Inc: $17,500 · Community ImprovementTeamwork Englewood IncBRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL: $17,142 · Community ImprovementBRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBOR…Resilience Partners NFP: $17,142 · Community ImprovementResilience Partners NF…GROW GREATER ENGLEWOOD INC: $85,845 · Food & NutritionGROW GREATER ENGLEWOO…SOUTHEAST ENVIRONMENTAL TASK FORCE: $55,500 · EnvironmentSOUTHEAST ENV…TELPOCHCALLI COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROJECT: $17,500 · Human ServicesTELPOCHCALL…CENTRAL AMERICAN MARTYRS CENTER: $17,500 · Human ServicesCENTRAL AME…CICERO-BERWYN-STICKNEY FOOD PANTRY: $13,500 · Human ServicesCICERO-BERW…Street Vendors Association of Chicago: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$170,455Community Improvement$91,784Food & Nutrition$85,845Environment$55,500Human Services$48,500Crime & Legal$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGROW GREATER ENGLEWOOD INC: $85,845 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTHEAST ENVIRONMENTAL TASK FORCE: $55,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE DELTA INSTITUTE: $40,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTeamwork Englewood Inc: $17,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTELPOCHCALLI COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROJECT: $17,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCENTRAL AMERICAN MARTYRS CENTER: $17,500 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetBRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL: $17,142 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetResilience Partners NFP: $17,142 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

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.

ForefrontThe Chicago Community…United Way of Metropo…Builders Vision Found…Robert R McCormick Fo…John D and Catherine …Chicago Beyond IncWalder FoundationCrossroads Fund IncField Foundation of I…Movement Strategy Cen…Greater Chicago Food …
ForefrontIL21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Little Village Environmental Justice Org funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Little Village Environmental Justice Org. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
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    How do I get to Little Village Environmental Justice Org?

    Find your warmest path to Little Village Environmental Justice Org 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 19 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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