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NCRC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND INC
Ncrc cdf provides access to capital that supports entrepreneurship and affordable homeownership in america's underserved communities.
$157M
Granted FY2023
2,663
Grants
29
Communities
$1.8M
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 87% of NCRC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2021
small business
2022
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2023
coronavirus fiscalfiscal recovery
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 2663 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k22 grants · $182k
- $10k–50k1406 grants · $31M
- $50k–250k1145 grants · $84M
- $250k+90 grants · $33M
$42,680
Median grant
29
States reached
$56M
Total assets
Largest grants
- KATO KAGAKU CO LTD DBA HYATT REGENCY CHICAGO$1,769,933
- THOR PALMER HOUSE HOTEL LLC DBA THE PALMER HOUSE HILTON BY AND THROUGH HLT$1,429,360
- CHICAGO LESSEE LLC$1,344,870
- SCH&T CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS$1,060,915
- MARRIOTT HOTEL SERVICES LLC$1,045,236
- Q CENTER LLC$907,613
- IHG MANAGMENT MARYLAND LLC$689,856
- 909 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE CORPORATION$653,273
- DTRS COLUMBUS DRIVE LLC$598,398
- BRESWISS LP$576,622
- MARRIOTT HOTEL SERVICES LLC$531,328
- RENAISSANCE HOTEL OPERATING CO$487,777
- 140 E WALTON BUILDING LLC$466,001
- CP IPERS ROSEMONT HOTEL LLC$457,291
- CHSP TRS LAKESHORE LLC$452,936
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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
Columbia College Chicago
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Education
2
Pegasus Theatre Chicago
Pegasus Theater Chicago ("Theater") is an Illinois not-for-profit corporation that was founded in 1978. The Theater produces and performs theatrical productions for the general public, and through various other programs, provides a service…
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3
Ballet Midwest
Educate, instruct, and perform dance
Arts & Culture
4
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
Opera Theatre's mission is to shape a vibrant future for opera by connecting, inspiring, and entertaining our communities; to foster the next generation; and to make opera accessible and inclusive.
Arts & Culture
5
Arts Illiana Inc
To promote the arts and provide an information system for and about the arts.
Arts & Culture
6
Hyde Park Theatre
Hyde Park Theatre produces and presents contemporary performances and contemporary visual art.
Arts & Culture
7
Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre
To use multiple artistic forms (primarily dance and music) and the combined talents of our diverse company to convey intense personal narratives. We are proudly and visibly multicultural, exploring the intersection of heritage, culture,…
Arts & Culture
8
Firehouse Community Arts Center
Center in chicago for arts community purpose
Arts & Culture
9
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
To sustain, encourage, and promote the performing arts. see schedule o for continuation.
Arts & Culture
10
South Chicago Dance Theatre
South Chicago Dance Theatre (SCDT) is a multicultural organization seamlessly fusing classical and contemporary dance styles as well as preserving historic dance work. With Choreographic Diplomacy at the heart of the organization, the…
Arts & Culture
11
The Calumet Theatre Company
The Calumet Theatre Company is committed to offering a quality entertainment experience that provides diverse cultural and artistic opportunities while preserving the historic character of the theater.
Arts & Culture
12
Opera Festival of Chicago
Provide concerts for viewing public
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grant Park Orchestral Association and the most unlike its peers is Dominican University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.1%2/2,636
the rest of the field
12%
6,845/56,667
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.
05the grantee network
273 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
75
Early backer (in before they grew)
268/273
Grantees still filing
184/273
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$125,206,920Arts & Culture$14,585,000Community Improvement$1,550,000Education$890,000Animals$750,000Environment$250,000Youth Development$200,000
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.
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.
Prince FoundationIL67.4× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Prince Foundation · League of Chicago Theatres Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Illinois Humanities Council Inc · Field Foundation of Illinois · John R Halligan Charitable Fund · Walder Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Richard and Mary L Gray Foundation · The Service Club of Chicago · Bayless Family Foundation · Alphawood 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 organisation NCRC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: QUINCY CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 376038680 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on QUINCY CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 61% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc?
Find your warmest path to Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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