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New Harbor Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Breakthrough | $2,500 |
| Kids First Chicago | $2,500 |
| Year Up United | $2,500 |
| Erie Family Health Center | $2,500 |
| The Navigators | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Chicago Chess Foundation | $2,500 |
| Chicago's Sunshine Enterprises Inc | $2,500 |
| Compudopt | $2,500 |
| Chicago Parks Foundation | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Exodus World Service | $1,500 |
| National Louis University | $1,500 |
| Mitchell Embrace NFP | $1,500 |
| Aspire | $1,500 |
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 (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +27% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 10 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- KFKIDS FIRST CHICAGO FOR EDUCATION3× · 2023–2025 · $8k · revenue +27%
- BUBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC3× · 2023–2025 · $8k · revenue +21%
- CICOMP-U-DOPT INC3× · 2023–2025 · $8k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- TBThe Bottom Line Incone grant, 2024 · $3k
- GAGrace and Peace Churchone grant, 2023 · $3k
YEAR UP INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -27%
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.
Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.
To realize a more equitable and inclusive economy by advancing innovative workforce solutions that equip local residents with the skills and resources to access high-growth employment opportunities in tech and other rapidly growing fields…
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
Established in 2011 by retired Chicago Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood, and his wife Sarah, Pitch In (fka Wood Family Foundation) seeks to improve the lives of children in four high-need neighborhoods in Chicago: North Lawndale, Humboldt Park,…
Children's advocates for change was organized to improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and…
Chicago Free School provides pre-kindergarten through 8th grade instruction and support activities. The faculty consists of qualified indiviuals with the appropriate education and experiende to provide students with the education that…
Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids First Chicago for Education and the most unlike its peers is Cure SPG4 Foundation. 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.
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 26 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 36 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 KIDS FIRST CHICAGO FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMP-U-DOPT INC ↗
- Who funds ONE TAIL AT A TIME NFP ↗
- Who funds Erie Family Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds The Cara Program ↗
- Who funds WEST DEERFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO'S SUNSHINE ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds Erie Family Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EXODUS WORLD SERVICE ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL EMBRACE NFP ↗
- Who funds Share our Spare ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds FIRST BOOK ↗
- Who funds National Louis University ↗
- Who funds Cure SPG4 Foundation ↗
- Who funds International Rett Syndrome Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds FOREVER FORTUNATE FELINES ↗
- Who funds MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
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: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Andersen-Formolo Family Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · AbbVie 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 New Harbor 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.
- Year Up 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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