· Public charity
Nami Illinois Inc
Nami illinois is dedicated to improving the quality of life for people with mental health disorders and their families through support, education, and advocacy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $104,999 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $139,499 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $34,500 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $92k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NAMI DEKALB KANE SOUTH AND KENDALL COUNTIES | $27,333 |
| NAMI WILL-GRUNDY | $15,000 |
| NAMI METRO SUBURBAN | $14,000 |
| NAMI SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS | $14,000 |
| NAMI NORTHWEST SUBURBAN CHICAGO | $11,000 |
| NAMI DUPAGE | $10,833 |
| NAMI MCHENRY COUNTY | $7,333 |
| NAMI CHICAGO | $5,500 |
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 (FY24–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of Nami Illinois Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 79% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- NONAMI OF DUPAGE COUNTY ILLINOIS2× · 2024–2025 · $38k · revenue +31%
- NONAMI OF MCHENRY COUNTY ILLINOIS2× · 2024–2025 · $35k · revenue +212%
- NCNAMI Chicago2× · 2024–2025 · $16k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- COCOMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUESone grant, 2024 · $22k · revenue 0%
- NMNAMI MID-CENTRAL ILLINOISone grant, 2024 · $21k
- NSNAMI SAUK AREAone grant, 2024 · $21k · 36% of their budget
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.
The national alliance on mental illness (nami) is the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization, established in 1979 for mental health clients and their families as a self-help organization dedicated to providing support,…
Nami geauga county (nami) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization incorporated in 2007 to provide support, education, and advocacy for individuals and their families, friends, and communities affected by serious mental illness.
Nami is a tri-county voice for mental illness. it builds a community of hope for those with mental illness and their families, thru support, education and advocacy.
To improve the quality of life for individuals affected by mental health conditions, as well as their families, through advocacy, education, and support. We are committed to ensuring the dignity of those living with mental illness by…
The mission of NAMI Rhode Island is to educate the public about mental illness; to offer resources and support to all whose lives are touched by mental illness; to advocate at every level to ensure the rights and dignity of those with…
Nami fond du lac strives to support and empower every person, young and old, touched by mental illness. nami is committed to removing stigma and nurturing recovery through advocacy, education and outreach.
We represent a community of people who are committed to relieving the pain and suffering of families and peers whose lives are impacted by a Mental Health Condition. The NAMI approach has been proven to work across the United States! NAMI…
Service to mental illness
NAMI Joplin is a mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness by raising awareness and providing support and education that was not previously available to those in…
Nami of san joaquin county provides education, support and advocacy to families and individuals whose lives have been affected by serious mental illness.to promote wellness, recovery, and resiliance through support, education and advocacy.
Nami-Billings works to educate, advocate and support all those affected by mental illness.
The organization provides mental illness support and advocacy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nami of Mchenry County Illinois and the most unlike its peers is Community Organizing and Family Issues. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 18 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 NAMI KDK ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLINESS - SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds NAMI OF DUPAGE COUNTY ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds NAMI WILL-GRUNDY ↗
- Who funds NAMI OF MCHENRY COUNTY ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES ↗
- Who funds NAMI SAUK AREA ↗
- Who funds NAMI GREATER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ↗
- Who funds NAMI Chicago ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds NAMI METRO-SUBURBAN INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI NORTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds NAMI LAKE COUNTY OH ↗
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: NAMI National · The Chicago Community Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Nami Illinois Inc 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.