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Logan Square Neighborhood Association

Nature of Organization and Description of Program Services Logan Square Neighborhood Association d/b/a Palenque LSNA (the Organization or LSNA) is a community-based organization, advancing leader development and models for engagement as the catalyst for change.

$650k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222024.

Community Improvement$168kHuman Services$54kCivil Rights$35kHousing & Shelter$28kEducation$21kEmployment$19k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $19,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $649,952 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $630,952 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.

$19,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Working Family Solidarity$19,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HACES: $10k → 8%Garden of Prayer Youth Center: $10k → 14%DREAAM Opportunity Center: $10k → 19%Centro De Trabajadores Unidos: $13k → 14%Partnership for Resilience: $11k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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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Heal Chicago

To strengthen communities through educational dialogue, leadership development, emotional resilience, and intercultural competence programs that help people bridge differences and build trust.

Public Benefit
2
Latino Resource Institute of Illinois

The mission of the Latino Resource Institute of Illinois is to provide case management, parenting classes, workshops, anger management classes, counseling and other services to families and individuals who are experiencing financial and…

Human Services
3
United Way of Illinois

Strengthen United Way movement in Illinois

Philanthropy
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Latino Union of Chicago

Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.

Human Services
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Logan Square Neighborhood Association

Nature of Organization and Description of Program Services Logan Square Neighborhood Association d/b/a Palenque LSNA (the Organization or LSNA) is a community-based organization, advancing leader development and models for engagement as…

Community Improvement
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Blocks Together

Blocks Together: Blocks Together (BT) is a membership-based community organizing group in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood on Chicago's West Side. Since 1995, BT has empowered residents to work together for systematic changes that bring…

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Alianza Leadership Institute

The Alliance of the SouthEast (ASE) builds the capacity of leaders, organizers, and associations that carry out community and social change. We envision a powerful grassroots base that impacts decision makers and wins real improvements in…

Human Services
8
Indo-American Center

The Indo-American Center creates and provides services that facilitate South Asian immigrant adjustment, socio-economic wellbeing, and community through direct service, education and advocacy.

Human Services
9
Association House of Chicago

Association house's mission is to advance each person's full participation in the life of their families, communities, and society. since 1899, we have served a vibrant, multicultural community. we used a trauma informed, culturally…

Human Services
10
Live Free Chicago

Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…

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Chicago United for Equity

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

Civil Rights
12
Latin Center

Programs developed to reduce illiteracy, joblessness, poverty, homelessness in the Chicago area through bilingual/bicultural exchange of individuals residing in inner city neighborhoods.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hispanic American Community Education & Services and the most unlike its peers is Teamwork Englewood Inc. 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 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT — $140,974 · Community ImprovementSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECTBRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL — $14,000 · Community ImprovementBRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCILEnlace Chicago — $13,000 · Community ImprovementEnlace ChicagoTeamwork Englewood Inc — $10,000 · Community ImprovementTeamwork Englewood IncCENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS — $12,500 · Human ServicesCENTRO DE TRABAJAD…Partnership for Resilience — $11,000 · Human ServicesPartnership for Re…GARDEN OF PRAYER YOUTH CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesGARDEN OF PRAYER Y…DREAAM OPPORTUNITY CENTER — $10,000 · Human ServicesDREAAM OPPORTUNITY…Hispanic American Community Education & Services — $10,000 · Human ServicesHispanic American …LATIN UNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING ASSN — $15,000 · OtherLATIN UNITED CO…Community Development Sustainable Solutions — $12,500 · OtherCommunity Devel…One Northside — $11,000 · OtherOne NorthsideST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $7,000 · OtherST STEPHEN'S EP…WORKING FAMILY SOLIDARITY — $19,000 · EmploymentThe Resurrection Project — $18,500 · Housing & ShelterSOUTHWEST SUBURBAN IMMIGRANT PROJECT — $10,000 · Youth Development
Community Improvement$177,974Human Services$53,500Other$45,500Employment$19,000Housing & Shelter$18,500Youth Development$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT — $140,974 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWORKING FAMILY SOLIDARITY — $19,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetThe Resurrection Project — $18,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLATIN UNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING ASSN — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL — $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEnlace Chicago — $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS — $12,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPartnership for Resilience — $11,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGARDEN OF PRAYER YOUTH CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTeamwork Englewood Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDREAAM OPPORTUNITY CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHispanic American Community Education & Services — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST SUBURBAN IMMIGRANT PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

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.

United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL23.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Marquette Bank Affordable Housing Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights · Woods Fund of Chicago · Forefront · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Wieboldt Foundation · The Resurrection Project · Chicago Teachers Union Foundation Inc

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 Logan Square Neighborhood Association 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.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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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    Find your warmest path to Logan Square Neighborhood Association 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $776k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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