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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
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$903kHuman Services$141kPublic Benefit$87kHealth$70kArts & Culture$45kInternational$26kReligion$26kPhilanthropy$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 15 grants below total $206,581 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $528,281 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $321,700 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Fenwick High School$75,000
Illinois Policy Institute$25,000
Alliance Cultural Center$25,000
Calvert House$20,000
The Urban Center$10,000
Wirepoints$10,000
Big Shoulders Fund$10,000
Evans Scholars Foundation$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
Union League Club of Chicago$581
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your 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. Your 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

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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 19 repeat orgs$266k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
37

Total granted

$1.2M
$224k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+19%

Still filing today

53%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% 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

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

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

04Your 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.

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.

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Empower Illinois and 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.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr18%24%10–20yr17%15%20–35yr15%9%35–55yr16%46%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr18%3%10–20yr17%11%20–35yr15%2%35–55yr16%83%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
16%
5,043/31,848

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 61 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
23/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, 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+30 more — $182,031 · Other+30 moreILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE — $75,000 · Public BenefitWIREPOINTS CORP — $11,000 · 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 · EducationEMPOWER ILLINOIS — $5,000 · EducationWOMENS GLOBAL EDUCATION PROJECT — $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 & CultureELIZABETH STREET GARDEN INC — $1,000 · Environment
Other$1,200,531Public Benefit$86,500Health$77,500Education$38,100International$20,000Arts & Culture$8,500Environment$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLUMEN CHRISTI INSTITUTE — $400,500 over 4y, 10% of budgetILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE — $75,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $22,500 over 4y, 0.4% 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 budgetWIREPOINTS CORP — $11,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTHRIVE COUNSELING CENTER — $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACTT Learning Center — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO NAVY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetWOMENS GLOBAL EDUCATION PROJECT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 budgetELIZABETH STREET GARDEN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKY'S THE LIMIT FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana University Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOTTLIEB MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $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
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 LUMEN CHRISTI INSTITUTE
  • Who funds ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
  • Who funds Oak Park River Forest Infant Welfare S
  • Who funds BRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION
  • Who funds Big Shoulders Fund
  • Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds WIREPOINTS CORP
  • Who funds THRIVE COUNSELING CENTER
  • Who funds EMPOWER ILLINOIS
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds PACTT Learning Center
  • Who funds CHICAGO NAVY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds WOMENS GLOBAL EDUCATION PROJECT
  • Who funds SIGMA DELTA TAU FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE 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.

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

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 Logos Charitable Fund Inc Co Ngm Investments LLC 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    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, 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.

    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 61 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-PF 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 $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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