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Lucy's Children's Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Snow City Arts | $2,500 |
| UNICEF | $1,500 |
| Erie Neighborhood House | $1,000 |
| Special Kids Special Families | $1,000 |
| OUT Memphis | $500 |
| EcoRise | $500 |
| SAFE Haven | $500 |
| Westside Baby | $500 |
| KIND-Kids in Need of Defense | $500 |
| TechLitAfrica | $500 |
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 (FY20–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF5× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +64%
WESTSIDE BABY3× · 2021–2025 · $2k · revenue +21%- ENERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE2× · 2021–2025 · $2k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- SOShare our Spareone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue -22%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $4k
- CCHILDHAVENgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +31%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Children's advocates for change was organized to improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and…
Children's services
Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.
Children At Risk (C@R) is a statewide nonprofit organization whose mission is to serve as a catalyst for change to improve the quality of life for children through strategic research, public policy analysis, education, collaboration, and…
The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.
CASA of Cook County's vision is to protect abused and neglected children by providing them in court, a safe and permanent home, and an opportunity to grow, learn and thrive.
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
To provide high-quality early learning and out-of-school time enrichment in under-resourced neighborhoods to holistically support children of all ages, their families, and their communities.
Helping chicagoland's at-risk children and their families build, achieve and sustain better lives.
The center for children & youth justice was founded in 2006 with one mission: reform the child welfare and juvenile justice systems to improve the lives of generations of children and youth in washington state. our focus is large-scale,…
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington and the most unlike its peers is Domestic Abuse Support Center of Shawano County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
33 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. 33 of the 41 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 UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Share our Spare ↗
- Who funds SNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE BABY ↗
- Who funds ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHILDHAVEN ↗
- Who funds Marwen Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN OF RACINE INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds HEARTGIFT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Special Kids-Special Families Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA of the 16th Judicial District Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH & OPPORTUNITY UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds BACK 2 SCHOOL AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA ↗
- Who funds SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OUTMEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds KIDS CROSSING ↗
- Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds CASA - NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds Healthy Schools Campaign ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC ABUSE SUPPORT CENTER OF SHAWANO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KIND INC ↗
- Who funds CASA of the Pikes Peak Region ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL FEBRES CORDERO SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds EcoRise Youth Innovations ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Lucy's Children's Fund 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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