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Needmor Co the Northern Trust Company

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.

$757k
Granted FY2023
21
Grants FY2023
8
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Civil Rights$1.9MCommunity Improvement$1.5MReligion$685kPublic Benefit$663kEmployment$561kHuman Services$374kPhilanthropy$310kEducation$145kOther$0
02FY2023 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $697k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$40,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LA LUCHA (CTUL)$50,000
ARISE CHICAGO$47,000
METROPOLITAN CONGREGATIONS UNITED$40,000
KENWOOD OAKLAND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION$40,000
MICHIGAN FAITH IN ACTION$40,000
ONE NORTHSIDE$40,000
MISSOURI WORKERS CENTER$40,000
MISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE$40,000
LAKE COUNTY SPONSORS$40,000
MICHIGAN DISABILITY RIGHTS COALITION$40,000
BLACKROOTS ALLIANCE$40,000
AMOS INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC LIFE$40,000
ACTION ST LOUIS$40,000
482FORWARD$40,000
HOOSIER ACTION RESOURCE CENTER$40,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $607k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NM COMUNIDADES EN ACCION Y DE FE (CAFE): $35k → 23%FAITH IN INDIANA: $50k → 16%TIDES CENTER: $40k → 10%FAITH IN INDIANA: $2k → 16%PROMISE ARIZONA: $50k → 11%TIDES CENTER: $40k → 10%INDIANAPOLIS CONGREGATION ACTION NETWORK: $35k → 16%INDIANAPOLIS CONGREGATION ACTION NETWORK: $35k → 16%NATIONAL COUNCIL ON INDEPENDENT LIVING: $15k → 14%AMOS INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC LIFE: $40k → 10%VOCES DE LA FRONTERA: $40k → 17%COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $35k → 12%AMOS INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC LIFE: $40k → 10%VOCES DE LA FRONTERA: $40k → 17%COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $35k → 12%COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $35k → 12%VOCES DE LA FRONTERA: $40k → 17%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.4M · 55 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

55 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2023, 39 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
36

Total granted

$5.4M
$903k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+86%

Still filing today

71%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Community ImprovementCivil RightsHuman ServicesEmploymentPublic BenefitReligionOther

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

  • I
    ISAIAH
    4× · 2017–2022 · $240k · revenue +101%
  • ARISE CHICAGO
    5× · 2017–2023 · $191k · revenue +372%
  • CD
    CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA
    5× · 2018–2023 · $190k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • Emerald Cities Collaborative Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $55k · revenue +122%
  • HA
    HOOSIER ACTION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +74%
  • AD
    ARCHCITY DEFENDERS ACTION ST LOUIS
    one grant, 2022 · $40k

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
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
Chicago United for Equity

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

Civil Rights
3
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.

Civil Rights
4
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
5
Interfaith Worker Justice

To advance the rights of workers by engaging diverse faith communities into action, from grassroots organizing to shaping policy at the local, state and national levels. They envision a nation where all workers enjoy the rights to:…

Religion
6
Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition

Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…

Community Improvement
7
Jobs With Justice Education Fund

The organization serves as a coalition of labor organizations, community groups, faith-based organizations, and student groups dedicated to protecting the rights of working people. To this end, the corporation shall engage in organizing…

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8
Action Now Institute

Action Now Institute's mission is to educate, inspire and empower residents of Illinois' low and moderate income communities to take a public stance on the issues that affect their neighborhoods, city and state through community outreach,…

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9
Colorado People's Action

Colorado people's action (cpa) is a member-driven, racial justice organization dedicated to winning long-lasting progressive public policies in colorado. cpa builds power by mobilizing voters, electing our own people to office, holding…

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10
Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment
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
The Black Organizing Project Inc

The Black Organizing Project is a Black, member-led community organization working for racial, social, and economic justice through grassroots organizing and community building across the Bay Area.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Cleveland Congregations Inc and the most unlike its peers is Baton Rouge Sponsoring Committee. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAffordable Housing Developm…Women & Girls Leadership De…Immigrant Worker SupportDevelopmental Disabilities …Youth Mentoring ProgramsCommunity FoundationsCommunity Foundations
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
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%31%10–20yr16%37%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr16%42%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 22% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/65
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,500

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

64 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. 64 of the 96 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
38/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Organizing Neighborhoods For Equality Northside — $153,000 · OtherOrganizing Neighborhoods For Equality Northsi…VALLEY INTERFAITH INC — $140,000 · OtherVALLEY INTERFAITH INCGREATER BOSTON INTERFAITH ORGANIZATION — $135,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $123,000 · OtherGREATER DAYTON UNION CO-OP — $120,000 · OtherNASHVILLE ORGANIZED FOR ACTION AND HOPE — $120,000 · OtherOHIO TRANSFORMATION FUND — $105,000 · OtherICARE — $90,000 · OtherJACKSON METRO SPONSORING COMMITTEE WORKING TOGETHER JACKSON — $90,000 · Other+39 more — $1,548,200 · Other+39 moreTOGETHER COLORADO — $140,000 · Community ImprovementTOGETHER COLORADOCOMMUNITIES UNITED — $125,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITIES UNITEDKenwood Oakland Community Organization — $125,000 · Community ImprovementKenwood Oakland Com…SAN DIEGO ORGANIZING PROJECT — $120,000 · Community ImprovementSAN DIEGO ORGANIZIN…MASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC — $105,000 · Community ImprovementMASSACHUSETTS COMMU…BATON ROUGE SPONSORING COMMITTEE — $90,000 · Community ImprovementBATON ROUGE SPONSOR…COMMON GROUND INC — $75,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMON GROUND INCTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND — $70,000 · Community ImprovementTEXAS ORGANIZING PR…VOICE Buffalo Inc — $70,000 · Community ImprovementVOICE Buffalo IncMICHIGAN FAITH IN ACTION — $40,000 · Community ImprovementHOOSIER ACTION INC — $40,000 · Community Improvement+6 more — $151,000 · Community Improvement+6 morePROMISE ARIZONA — $170,000 · Human ServicesPROMISE ARIZ…Faith in Indiana — $122,400 · Human ServicesFaith in Ind…VOCES DE LA FRONTERA INC — $120,000 · Human ServicesVOCES DE LA …COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE — $105,000 · Human ServicesCOLORADO PEO…TIDES CENTER — $80,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERAMOS INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC LIFE — $80,000 · Human ServicesAMOS INSTITU…NM Comunidades En Accion Y De Fe — $35,000 · Human Services+1 more — $15,000 · Human ServicesMISSOURI ORGANIZING AND VOTER ENGAGEMENT COLLABORATIVE — $130,000 · Civil RightsMISSOURI OR…SOMOS UN PUEBLO UNIDO — $130,000 · Civil RightsSOMOS UN PU…BLACKROOTS ALLIANCE — $120,000 · Civil RightsBLACKROOTS …HOOSIER ACTION RESOURCE CENTER INC — $85,000 · Civil RightsHOOSIER ACT…New Orleans Workers Ctr For Racial Justice — $62,500 · Civil RightsNew Orleans…Workers Center For Racial Just NFP — $40,000 · Civil RightsWorkers Cen…LAKE COUNTY UNITED INC — $40,000 · Civil RightsLAKE COUNTY…TENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION — $35,000 · Civil RightsNative Americans in Philanthropy — $25,000 · Civil RightsARISE CHICAGO — $190,800 · EmploymentARISE CHI…CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA — $190,000 · EmploymentCENTRO DE…WORKERS' DIGNITY PROJECT — $102,750 · EmploymentWORKERS' …Missouri Workers Center — $40,000 · EmploymentMissouri …MISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE — $40,000 · EmploymentMISSOURI …ISAIAH — $240,000 · ReligionFAITH IN ACTION ALABAMA — $120,000 · ReligionLAKE COUNTY SPONSORS — $80,000 · Religion+1 more — $5,000 · ReligionGREATER CLEVELAND CONGREGATIONS INC — $147,500 · Public BenefitCITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND INC — $125,000 · Public BenefitEmerald Cities Collaborative Inc — $55,000 · Public BenefitKENTUCKY COALITION INC — $35,000 · Public Benefit+1 more — $5,000 · Public Benefit
Other$2,624,200Community Improvement$1,151,000Human Services$727,400Civil Rights$667,500Employment$563,550Religion$445,000Public Benefit$367,500

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 budgetISAIAH — $240,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetARISE CHICAGO — $190,800 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetCENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA — $190,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetPROMISE ARIZONA — $170,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetOrganizing Neighborhoods For Equality Northside — $153,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND CONGREGATIONS INC — $147,500 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetVALLEY INTERFAITH INC — $140,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetTOGETHER COLORADO — $140,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetMISSOURI ORGANIZING AND VOTER ENGAGEMENT COLLABORATIVE — $130,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetSOMOS UN PUEBLO UNIDO — $130,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetCITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND INC — $125,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetCOMMUNITIES UNITED — $125,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetKenwood Oakland Community Organization — $125,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFaith in Indiana — $122,400 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetNASHVILLE ORGANIZED FOR ACTION AND HOPE — $120,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetVOCES DE LA FRONTERA INC — $120,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO ORGANIZING PROJECT — $120,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION ALABAMA — $120,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetBLACKROOTS ALLIANCE — $120,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetCOLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE — $105,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC — $105,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetWORKERS' DIGNITY PROJECT — $102,750 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetBATON ROUGE SPONSORING COMMITTEE — $90,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetHOOSIER ACTION RESOURCE CENTER INC — $85,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetSOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION — $80,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMOS INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC LIFE — $80,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetACTION ST LOUIS — $80,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLAKE COUNTY SPONSORS — $80,000 over 2y, 26% of budget482 FORWARD — $80,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMICHIGAN DISABILITY RIGHTS COALITION — $80,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMON GROUND INC — $75,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND — $70,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetVOICE Buffalo Inc — $70,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetNeighborhood Funders Group — $55,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetEmerald Cities Collaborative Inc — $55,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMICHIGAN FAITH IN ACTION — $40,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetWorkers Center For Racial Just NFP — $40,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHOOSIER ACTION INC — $40,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetMissouri Workers Center — $40,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetMISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE — $40,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFAITH ACTION FOR COMMUNITY EQUITY — $37,850 over 2y, 23% of budgetCentral Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy — $35,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION — $35,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetKENTUCKY COALITION INC — $35,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVIP Education Fund — $35,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetNM Comunidades En Accion Y De Fe — $35,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCHARLESTON AREA JUSTICE MINISTRY — $30,000 over 1y, 12% 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.

New Venture FundAmalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationNEO Philanthropy IncWindward FundNeedmor Fund for Soci…Proteus Fund IncMarguerite Casey Foun…Center for Community …Common Counsel Founda…The Ford FoundationFaith in Action Netwo…
New Venture FundDC51.4× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Venture Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Windward Fund · Needmor Fund for Social Justice · Proteus Fund Inc · Marguerite Casey Foundation · Center for Community Change · Common Counsel Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Faith in Action Network

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 Needmor Co the Northern Trust Company 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 · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 96 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

Source object · view filing

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