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Naffah Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$183k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Health$235kHousing & Shelter$117kHuman Services$90kPhilanthropy$69kEducation$52kFood & Nutrition$45kYouth Development$15kReligion$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $110k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE THROUGH CONDUCTIVE ED$20,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF JOLIET$15,000
COMMUNITY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$15,000
HELPING HANDS CENTER$15,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$15,000
THE COMMUNITY HOUSE$10,000
NAMI METRO SUBURBAN INC$10,000
HCS FAMILY SERVICES$10,000
EASTERSEALS DUPAGE & FOX VALLEY REGION$5,000
CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION INC$5,000
THE FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT OF KASLIK INC$5,000
BEDS PLUS$5,000
AGING CARE CONNECTIONS$5,000
DUPAGE PADS$5,000
WELLNESS HOUSE$5,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SAINT JOSEPH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION BEIRUT INC: $5k → 10%SAINT JOSEPH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%SAINT JOSEPH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION BEIRUT INC: $5k → 10%SAINT JOSEPH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION BEIRUT INC: $5k → 10%YOUTH OUTREACH SERVICES INC: $5k → 14%HELPING HANDS CENTER: $15k → 14%AGING CARE CONNECTIONS: $5k → 14%THE LEADERSHOP: $5k → 14%AGING CARE CONNECTIONS: $5k → 14%THE LEADERSHOP: $5k → 14%THE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 7%AGING CARE CONNECTIONS: $5k → 14%THE LEADERSHOP: $5k → 14%HELPING HANDS CENTER: $5k → 14%THE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 7%AGING CARE CONNECTIONS: $5k → 14%THE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5k → 7%THE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $3k → 7%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$581k · 28 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
13

Total granted

$581k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+21%

Still filing today

86%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • NM
    NAMI METRO-SUBURBAN INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +152%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +28%
  • HF
    HCS FAMILY SERVICES
    4× · 2021–2024 · $35k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF WISCON
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • SI
    ST ISAAC JOGUES PARISH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
  • TF
    THE FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $5k

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
Community Care Health Plan Inc

Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.

Health
2
Depaul Community Services Inc

To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses

Health
3
Center for Housing and Health

Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
4
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
5
Mental Health Centers of Western Il

Provide mental health services.

Health
6
Lifeworks Incorporated

Lifeworks provides education, jobs and homes for persons with developmental disabilities empowering them to lead meaningful lives within the community. our guiding principles ensure that lifeworks staff and volunteers strive to create and…

Human Services
7
Sinnissippi Centers Inc

It is the mission of sinnissippi centers, inc. to provide quality, coordinated and responsive behavioral healthcare services to individuals, families and the communities we serve.

Health
8
Community Support Services Inc

Serves as a safety net for those summit county residents who are most in need of behavioral health services as a result of severe and persistent mental illness the agency proveides comprehensive, high quality, cost-effective treatment,…

Health
9
Anchorage Community Mental Health Services Inc

To promote recovery and wellness by providing consumer-driven behavioral healthcare services.

Health
10
Heartland Human Services

To offer treatment services for mental illness and alcohol, tobacco, and other drug addictions, to residents of effingham and surrounding counties.

Health
11
Mesa Developmental Services

Mesa developmental services is a not-for-profit organization that provides community based services and support for persons with developmental disabilities of mesa county. we promote, within caring environments, opportunities that nurture…

Human Services
12
Living Well Disability Services

Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hand Center and the most unlike its peers is Community Memorial Foundation. 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 41 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr17%3%10–20yr15%30%20–35yr13%40%35–55yr22%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr17%1%10–20yr15%39%20–35yr13%34%35–55yr22%23%55yr+

The field is 20% 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 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/30
the rest of the field
15%
7,929/53,062

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

29 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. 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
23/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Community Memorial Foundation — $69,150 · OtherCommunity Memorial FoundationCENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE THROUGH CONDUCTIVE ED — $30,000 · OtherCENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE THROUGH CONDUCTIVE E…BEDS PLUS INC — $25,000 · OtherBEDS PLUS INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF JOLIET — $22,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF JOLIETCHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF WISCON — $15,000 · OtherCHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF WISCONCATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOC INC — $15,000 · OtherCATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOC INCPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER — $12,500 · OtherNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $10,000 · Other+12 more — $57,500 · Other+12 moreNAMI METRO-SUBURBAN INC — $55,000 · HealthNAMI METRO-SUBURBAN INCCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCO…Wellness House — $30,000 · HealthWellness HouseEASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY REGION — $15,000 · HealthEASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FO…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $8,000 · Health+3 more — $13,000 · Health+3 moreTHE COMMUNITY HOUSE — $27,500 · Human ServicesTHE COMMUNITY HOUS…Saint Joseph University Foundation — $20,000 · Human ServicesSaint Joseph Unive…AGING CARE CONNECTIONS — $20,000 · Human ServicesAGING CARE CONNECT…HELPING HAND CENTER — $20,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HAND CENTE…THE LEADERSHOP — $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE LEADERSHOPYOUTH OUTREACH SERVICES INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesDUPAGE PADS INC — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterDUPAGE PADS…BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC — $17,500 · Housing & ShelterBRIDGE COMM…MERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT — $17,000 · Housing & ShelterMERCY HOUSI…HCS FAMILY SERVICES — $35,000 · Community ImprovementSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $6,000 · EducationCenter for Independence through Conductive Education Inc — $5,000 · EducationTHE FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT OF KASLIK INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$256,650Health$166,000Human Services$107,500Housing & Shelter$64,500Community Improvement$35,000Education$11,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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 budgetCommunity Memorial Foundation — $69,150 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNAMI METRO-SUBURBAN INC — $55,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHCS FAMILY SERVICES — $35,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetDUPAGE PADS INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWellness House — $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY HOUSE — $27,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBEDS PLUS INC — $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF JOLIET — $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSaint Joseph University Foundation — $20,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetAGING CARE CONNECTIONS — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHELPING HAND CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC — $17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT — $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEADERSHOP — $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetEASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY REGION — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER — $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT OF KASLIK INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE-SPAN — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Independence through Conductive Education Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALL OUR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services DuPage — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan Interfaith Counseling Center — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH OUTREACH SERVICES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 2y, 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.

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.

Community Memorial Fo…United Way of Metropo…The Dupage Community …The Chicago Community…Healthy Communities F…George M Eisenberg Fo…Blowitz-Ridgeway Foun…Fifth Third Chicagola…AbbVie FoundationThe Pelino Charitable…Westlake Health Found…Andrew and Alice Fisc…
Community Memorial FoundationIL36.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Memorial Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Dupage Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Healthy Communities Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Pelino Charitable Foundation · Westlake Health Foundation · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust

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 Naffah Family Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 41 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.

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