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Logos Charitable Fund Inc Co Ngm Investments LLC

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$528k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$903kHuman Services$141kPublic Benefit$87kHealth$70kArts & Culture$45kInternational$26kReligion$26kPhilanthropy$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $216,581, the rows itemized in this filing. The $528,281 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $311,700 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Fenwick High School$75,000
Alliance Cultural Center$25,000
Illinois Policy Institute$25,000
Calvert House$20,000
Evans Scholars Foundation$10,000
The Urban Center$10,000
Wirepoints$10,000
Big Shoulders Fund$10,000
Wirepoints$10,000
Institute for Philosophy, Technology and$5,000
Child Mind Institute$5,000
International Justice Mission$5,000
Brain Research Foundation$2,500
Mission of Our Lady of Angels$2,500
Society of Catholic Scientists$1,000
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 (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $1k → 8%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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 20 repeat orgs$252k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
35

Total granted

$1.2M
$210k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+19%

Still filing today

50%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’22’23’24
EducationHealthPublic BenefitArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • LC
    LUMEN CHRISTI INSTITUTE
    4× · 2017–2022 · $401k · revenue +212%
  • BR
    BRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +32%
  • IJ
    INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION
    3× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • F
    Fenwick
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • OP
    Oak Park River Forest Infant Welfare S
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -31%
  • AC
    Athenaeum Center
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
2
Loyola University of Chicago

We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.

Education
3
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
4
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
5
University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education
6
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
7
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.

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8
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

Achieving international impact through world-class research and education in fundamental computer science and information technology.

Education
9
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

—
10
Pediatric Faculty Foundation Inc

We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…

Health
11
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
12
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Empower Illinois; the most unlike its peers is Armed Forces Council of Chicago. 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

31 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. 31 of the 60 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
23/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LUMEN CHRISTI INSTITUTE: $400,500 · OtherLUMEN CHRISTI INSTITUTEFENWICK HIGH SCHOOL: $358,000 · OtherFENWICK HIGH SCHOOLFenwick: $100,000 · OtherFenwickSt. Ignatius College Prep: $60,000 · OtherCalvert House: $55,000 · OtherEvans Scholars Foundation: $45,000 · Other+29 more: $187,031 · Other+29 moreILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $87,500 · Public BenefitWIREPOINTS CORP: $21,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $500 · Public BenefitOak Park River Forest Infant Welfare S: $25,000 · HealthBRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $22,500 · HealthCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $15,000 · HealthTHRIVE COUNSELING CENTER: $9,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthBig Shoulders Fund: $20,000 · EducationWOMENS GLOBAL EDUCATION PROJECT: $5,000 · EducationEMPOWER ILLINOIS: $5,000 · EducationSIGMA DELTA TAU FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Education+7 more: $5,100 · EducationINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $20,000 · InternationalCHICAGO NAVY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$1,205,531Public Benefit$109,000Health$77,500Education$38,100International$20,000Arts & Culture$8,500Human Services$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLUMEN CHRISTI INSTITUTE: $400,500 over 4y, 10% of budgetILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $87,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWIREPOINTS CORP: $21,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVE COUNSELING CENTER: $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENS GLOBAL EDUCATION PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHICAGO NAVY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetPACTT Learning Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIGMA DELTA TAU FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOTTLIEB MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELIZABETH STREET GARDEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNION LEAGUE CLUB OF CHICAGO: $581 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVail Christian School Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuskegon County Catholic Education Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 LUMEN CHRISTI INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Oak Park River Forest Infant Welfare S ↗
  • Who funds BRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WIREPOINTS CORP ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
  • Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds THRIVE COUNSELING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WOMENS GLOBAL EDUCATION PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO NAVY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PACTT Learning Center ↗
  • Who funds EMPOWER ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds SIGMA DELTA TAU FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds GOTTLIEB MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗

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 Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …Hazard Family Foundat…The Canning FoundationGood Heart Work Smart…Carol Bernick Family …Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…James and Catherine D…Moller Family Foundat…Tully Family Foundati…
The Chicago Community TrustIL19.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Hazard Family Foundation · The Canning Foundation · Good Heart Work Smart Foundation · Carol Bernick Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · James and Catherine Denny Foundation · Moller Family Foundation · Tully Family Foundation

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 Logos Charitable Fund Inc Co Ngm Investments LLC funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Logos Charitable Fund Inc Co Ngm Investments LLC. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    2report 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, 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.

    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 60 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $778k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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