· Private foundation
Marquette Bank Affordable Housing Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of MARQUETTE BANK AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k79 grants · $251k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $41k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $83k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEDS PLUS | $83,300 |
| LATINOS PROGRESANDO | $10,800 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| GREATER SOUTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| PODER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT | $6,500 |
| WOODSTOCK INSTITUTE | $6,500 |
| ILLINOIS PARTNERS IN HOPE | $5,800 |
| LA CASA NORTE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 39 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $146k 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
- BPBEDS PLUS INC4× · 2021–2025 · $105k · revenue +223%
- GSGREATER SOUTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORP5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +54%
- PPODER6× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +609%
Funded once
- MMMOTHER MACAULEY LIBERAL ARTS HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $11k
- SRST RITA OF CASCIA HIGH SCHOOL CORPORATIONone grant, 2020 · $11k
- IPILLINOIS PARTNERS IN HOPE NFPone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +3%
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.
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.
Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.
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…
To provide additional supportive housing, social, health, and other human services to the indigent and special needs individuals of chicago's inner city population and transitioning the homeless to a life of self- sufficiency and stability.
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness (CCH) builds community power and advances racial equity through organizing, advocacy, legal assistance, and education to prevent and end homelessness because housing is a human right.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.
Chicago Hope runs a food pantry twice a week that serves over 100 families. The organization is working toward the furtherance of wrap around services.
To reduce inter-generational poverty by promoting strategies that encourage racial and economic diversity in the housing market, primarily in the chicago area and nationally as well.
Chicago Workers' Collaborative's mission is to promote full employment and equality for the lowest wage-earners, primarily temporary staffing workers, in the Chicago region through leadership and skills training, critical assistance and…
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Together We Cope and the most unlike its peers is Skyscraper Ministries. 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 26 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 423 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 The Port Ministries ↗
- Who funds BEDS PLUS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER SOUTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds PODER ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds Woodstock Institute ↗
- Who funds Latinos Progresando ↗
- Who funds Chicago Commons Association ↗
- Who funds Almost Home Chicago Inc ↗
- Who funds OAK PARK REGIONAL HOUSING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MONROE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPANISH COALITION FOR HOUSING ↗
- Who funds Teamwork Englewood Inc ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
- Who funds ALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE TEEN CENTER NFP ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS PARTNERS IN HOPE NFP ↗
- Who funds LA CASA NORTE ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY WELLNESS ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE COPE ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY LOAN FUND ↗
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: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Forefront · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Greater Chicago Food Depository · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Healthy Communities 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 Marquette Bank Affordable Housing Foundation 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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