· Private foundation
Naperville Rotary Charities Inc
Fund programs for the education and relief of the poor, distressed or underprivileged Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k91 grants · $386k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $195k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RCNC | $45,000 |
| COLLEGE OF DUPAGE FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $20,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $20,000 |
| ROTARY FOUNDATION | $16,800 |
| ROTARY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| COLLABORACTION | $12,000 |
| BRIDGE COMMUNITIES | $11,500 |
| NORTH CENTRAL COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| LOAVES & FISHES | $10,000 |
| ROTARY FOUNDATION | $8,400 |
| US AMBULANCES FOR UKRAINE | $8,328 |
| WAYSIDE CROSS MINISTERIES | $8,250 |
| NAMI OF DUPAGE COUNTY | $8,250 |
| KIDS MATTER | $8,250 |
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 (FY17–24, $796k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 6% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
71 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k 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
- COCOLLEGE OF DUPAGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $378k · revenue +13%
- SISamaritan Interfaith Counseling Center8× · 2017–2024 · $112k · revenue +256%
- SFSchools for Children of the World6× · 2017–2024 · $112k · revenue +53% · 25% of their budget
Funded once
- RCRotary Club of Naperville Charitiesone grant, 2018 · $25k
- WFWHEATON FRANCISCAN SISTERS CORPone grant, 2022 · $18k
- NUNIRMAAN USAone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -69%
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.
To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…
Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.
To improve lives by sharing community resources
Provide community-based residential housing to adults with autism and/or severe developmental disabilities. also provide developmental training and other supports to this same population.
Empowering individuals with developmental disabilities and their families through advocacy and the coordination of service options
Service Inc. of Illinois was formed in 1989 to provide screening, assessment, evaluation, service planning, referral, linkage, follow-up, & related services to individuals with developmental disabilities and/or developmental delays in 17…
The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.
Respond now connects those in need with health, hunger, and housing services in the chicago southland.
Volunteers of america of illinois partners with the people we serve to create transformational and lasting change in their lives through programs that support, empower, and transform.
At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Little Friends Inc and the most unlike its peers is Think Global Arts 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 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
82 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. 82 of the 124 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 THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF DUPAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Samaritan Interfaith Counseling Center ↗
- Who funds Schools for Children of the World ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Family Shelter Service Inc ↗
- Who funds LITTLE FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI OF DUPAGE COUNTY ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds North Central College ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds DUPAGE PADS INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERWALK ADULT DAY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds 360 YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NAPERVILLE ELDERLY HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds Rotary Club of Naperville Charities ↗
- Who funds COLLABORACTION THEATRE CO ↗
- Who funds CASA OF DUPAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN PRAIRIE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Naperville Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds DUPAGE SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds TEEN PARENT CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds Weiss Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINTE AUTISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Literacy DuPage ↗
- Who funds The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds CAREER & NETWORKING CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTURY WALK CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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 Dupage Community Foundation · The Bersted Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Exchange Club Charitable Organization · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Dunham Fund · Topfer Family Foundation · Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Dunham Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women · The Richard M Schulze Family 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 Naperville Rotary Charities 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.
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% of income from government
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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