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Marquette Bank Affordable Housing Foundation at a glance

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Marquette Bank Affordable Housing Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$376k
Granted FY2025still arriving
84
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$83k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Housing & Shelter$1.3MCommunity Improvement$274kHuman Services$175kEmployment$43kEducation$33kYouth Development$31kArts & Culture$28kHealth$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k79 grants · $251k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $41k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $83k
$3,750
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEDS PLUS$83,300
LATINOS PROGRESANDO$10,800
PODER$10,000
GREATER SOUTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$10,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF CHICAGO$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
WOODSTOCK INSTITUTE$6,500
SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT$6,500
ILLINOIS PARTNERS IN HOPE$5,800
ENLACE CHICAGO$5,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LOAVES AND FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $500 → 7%LOAVES AND FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $500 → 7%SPANISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $250 → 7%TOGETHER WE COPE: $5k → 14%TOGETHER WE COPE: $3k → 14%MY JOYFUL HEART: $2k → 7%TOGETHER WE COPE: $500 → 14%TOGETHER WE COPE: $500 → 14%TOGETHER WE COPE: $500 → 14%ACTION COALITION ENGLEWOOD: $3k → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $4k → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $3k → 14%ALICIA'S HOUSE: $500 → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $3k → 14%ALICIA'S HOUSE: $500 → 14%CHICAGO COMMONS: $8k → 14%CHICAGO COMMONS: $5k → 14%CHICAGO COMMONS: $5k → 14%THE PORT MINISTRIES: $30k → 14%THE PORT MINISTRIES: $28k → 14%THE PORT MINISTRIES: $15k → 14%THE PORT MINISTRIES: $10k → 14%NORTHWESTSIDE HOUSING CENTER: $2k → 14%THE PORT MINISTRIES: $10k → 14%THE PORT MINISTRIES: $10k → 14%THE PORT MINISTRIES: $8k → 14%THE PORT MINISTRIES: $800 → 14%THE PORT MINISTRIES: $300 → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%LATINO ORGANIZATION OF THE SOUTHWEST: $3k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%ALMOST HOME CHICAGO: $10k → 14%ALMOST HOME CHICAGO: $5k → 14%LATINO ORGANIZATION OF THE SOUTHWEST: $1k → 14%ALMOST HOME CHICAGO: $3k → 14%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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$746k · 50 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
334

Total granted

$746k
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+27%

Still filing today

76%
4%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $146k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • BP
    BEDS PLUS INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $105k · revenue +223%
  • GS
    GREATER SOUTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORP
    5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +54%
  • P
    PODER
    6× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +609%

Funded once

  • SR
    ST RITA OF CASCIA HIGH SCHOOL CORPORATION
    one grant, 2020 · $11k
  • MM
    MOTHER MACAULEY LIBERAL ARTS HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $11k
  • IP
    ILLINOIS PARTNERS IN HOPE NFP
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +3%
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
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
2
Illinois Community for Displaced Immigrants

Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.

Human Services
3
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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4
Community Supportive Living Systems

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.

Housing & Shelter
5
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness

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.

Housing & Shelter
6
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
7
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
8
Chicago Refugee Coalition

The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.

Human Services
9
Chicago Hope Inc

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.

Human Services
10
Hcp of Illinois Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
11
Chicago Workers' Collaborative Nfp

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…

Education
12
Chicago United for Equity

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

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Together We Cope; 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.
04the grantee network

58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/58
Grantees still filing
40/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEDS PLUS INC: $105,300 · OtherBEDS PLUS INC+172 more: $911,400 · Other+172 moreThe Port Ministries: $111,600 · Human ServicesThe Port Mini…Chicago Commons Association: $18,000 · Human ServicesChicago Commo…Almost Home Chicago Inc: $17,500 · Human ServicesAlmost Home C…Metropolitan Family Services: $12,500 · Human ServicesMetropolitan …ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $10,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION H…TOGETHER WE COPE: $9,000 · Human Services+1 more: $3,500 · Human ServicesGREATER SOUTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORP: $50,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER SO…SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT: $33,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHWEST …Teamwork Englewood Inc: $15,000 · Community ImprovementTeamwork E…ALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC: $11,500 · Community ImprovementALLIES FOR…BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL: $8,250 · Community ImprovementBRIGHTON P…THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY LOAN FUND: $7,500 · Community ImprovementGREATER AUBURN GRESHAM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $6,000 · Community ImprovementEnlace Chicago: $5,000 · Community ImprovementCHICAGO DEFENDER CHARITIES INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF CHICAGO INC: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterOAK PARK REGIONAL HOUSING CENTER INC: $17,000 · Housing & ShelterSPANISH COALITION FOR HOUSING: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterLA CASA NORTE: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterBrighter Behavior Choices Inc: $6,800 · Housing & ShelterWINGS PROGRAM INC: $4,500 · Housing & ShelterPODER: $41,000 · EducationLatinos Progresando: $23,050 · Arts & CultureOpen Center for the Arts: $4,500 · Arts & CultureTHE BRIDGE TEEN CENTER NFP: $10,550 · Youth DevelopmentTGI MOVEMENT: $6,500 · Youth Development
Other$1,016,700Human Services$182,100Community Improvement$141,250Housing & Shelter$83,300Education$41,000Arts & Culture$27,550Youth Development$17,050

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Port Ministries: $111,600 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetBEDS PLUS INC: $105,300 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER SOUTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORP: $50,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPODER: $41,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT: $33,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF CHICAGO INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWoodstock Institute: $25,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLatinos Progresando: $23,050 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetChicago Commons Association: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAlmost Home Chicago Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetOAK PARK REGIONAL HOUSING CENTER INC: $17,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTeamwork Englewood Inc: $15,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSPANISH COALITION FOR HOUSING: $15,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMONROE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC: $11,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRIDGE TEEN CENTER NFP: $10,550 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY WELLNESS: $10,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLA CASA NORTE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS PARTNERS IN HOPE NFP: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTOGETHER WE COPE: $9,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL: $8,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHICAGO COMMUNITY LOAN FUND: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBrighter Behavior Choices Inc: $6,800 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCASA OF RIVER VALLEY: $6,750 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTGI MOVEMENT: $6,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetGREATER AUBURN GRESHAM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEnlace Chicago: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO DEFENDER CHARITIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLATIN UNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING ASSN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBROTHERS AND SISTERS OF LOVE: $5,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetWINGS PROGRAM INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Center for the Arts: $4,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetLATINO ORGANIZATION OF THE SOUTHWEST: $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% 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 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 Teamwork Englewood Inc ↗
  • Who funds SPANISH COALITION FOR HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds MONROE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
  • Who funds ALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE TEEN CENTER NFP ↗
  • Who funds ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY WELLNESS ↗
  • Who funds LA CASA NORTE ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds ILLINOIS PARTNERS IN HOPE NFP ↗
  • Who funds TOGETHER WE COPE ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL ↗

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.

United Way of Metropo…The Chicago Community…Polk Bros Foundation …Fifth Third Chicagola…Field Foundation of I…John D and Catherine …ForefrontRobert R McCormick Fo…Greater Chicago Food …Greater Green Bay Com…Circle of Service Fou…Healthy Communities F…
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL51.4× affinity24 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 · 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

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 Marquette Bank Affordable Housing Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marquette Bank Affordable Housing Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    24report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Marquette Bank Affordable Housing Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Marquette Bank Affordable Housing Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 423 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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