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Nicor Illinois Community Investment Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$500k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0179% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.

Human Services$740kYouth Development$300kHealth$300kCommunity Improvement$285kHousing & Shelter$30kPhilanthropy$10kEducation$10kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$440k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THINK BIG CORPORATION$100,000
SOUTHLAND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY NFP$100,000
OAI INC$100,000
COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS$100,000
PROACTIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES$100,000
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 (FY23–25, $740k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MORNINGSTAR MISSION: $10k → 7%THINK BIG CORPORATION: $200k → 15%THINK BIG CORPORATION: $100k → 15%THINK BIG CORPORATION: $100k → 15%ROCK RIVER VALLEY PANTRY: $10k → 15%CRISIS CENTER FOR SOUTH SUBURBIA: $10k → 14%YWCA NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS: $100k → 15%YWCA NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS: $100k → 15%COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $100k → 15%SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $10k → 14%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.

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 7 repeat orgs$375k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
18

Total granted

$1.8M
$275k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+19%

Still filing today

71%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • TB
    Think Big Corporation
    3× · 2023–2025 · $400k · 42% of their budget
  • HB
    HARVEY BROOKS MOTIVATION & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $300k
  • PC
    PROACTIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES
    3× · 2023–2025 · $300k · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • TC
    TREND Community Development Corporation
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • AF
    ALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +9%
  • FM
    FAITHFUL MEALS IN MOTION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k

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
Respond Now

Respond now connects those in need with health, hunger, and housing services in the chicago southland.

Human Services
2
Community Supportive Living Systems

To provide additional supportive housing, social, health, and other human services to the indigent and special needs individuals of chicago's inner city population and transitioning the homeless to a life of self- sufficiency and stability.

Housing & Shelter
3
Westside Neighborhood Developm

Community development via home ownership and home repair programs. financial literacy education

Community Improvement
4
Integrated Community Solutions Inc

Bringing people together with quality services that promote self-sufficiency.

Housing & Shelter
5
Chances & Changes Inc

To operate residential and non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence.

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6
Greater Southwest Development Corp

The greater southwest development corporation is the catalyst for creating and maintaining a vital greater southwest chicago community. empowering, building, and sustaining development raises the quality of life for our neighborhood…

Community Improvement
7
Central Illinois Services

To foster low income housing, develop and promote affordable homeownership and rental opportunities, support community develpment, social services, and educational opportunities for individuals and families throughout menard county and the…

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8
Ravenswood Community Services Inc

Ravenswood community services ("rcs") operates a food pantry and community kitchen for those in need of emergency food on chicago's north side.

Human Services
9
Inner City Mission of Springfield

The mission of inner city mission is to provide what is needed to help homeless children, their parents, and single women find their way home.

Religion
10
Roots Young Adult Shelter

Roots partners with young adults on their journey to stability.

Housing & Shelter
11
Live Free Chicago

Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…

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12
Neighborhood Housing Services of Southeast Wisconsin Inc

The purpose of neighborhood housing services of southeast wisconsin, inc. is to renew pride, restore confidence,promote reinvestment, and revitalize the nhs neighborhoods through the efforts of local residents acting in concert with…

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rockford Rescue Mission Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Grundy Area Pads. 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 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%4%<5yr14%17%5–10yr18%8%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr14%33%35–55yr16%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%16%<5yr14%37%5–10yr18%1%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr14%4%35–55yr16%11%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 16% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
16%
5,538/35,470

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

23 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. 23 of the 26 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
17/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Think Big Corporation — $400,000 · Human ServicesThink Big CorporationYWCA NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS — $200,000 · Human ServicesYWCA NORTHWESTERN ILLINOISCOMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesCOMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INC+4 more — $40,000 · Human Services+4 moreOAI INC — $200,000 · OtherOAI INCSOUTHLAND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY NFP — $200,000 · OtherSOUTHLAND DEVELOPMENT AU…+7 more — $60,140 · Other+7 moreHARVEY BROOKS MOTIVATION & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentHARVEY BROOKS M…PROACTIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES — $300,000 · HealthPROACTIVE COMMU…CHICAGO SOUTHLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $150,000 · Community ImprovementCHICAGO SOUTHLA…TREND Community Development Corporation — $100,000 · Community ImprovementTREND Community…ALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementALLIES FOR COMM…KANKAKEE COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementSHELTER CARE MINISTRIES — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterREBUILDING TOGETHER METRO CHICAGO — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterA More Excellent Way Ministries — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Human Services$740,000Other$460,140Youth Development$300,000Health$300,000Community Improvement$285,000Housing & Shelter$30,000Philanthropy$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThink Big Corporation — $400,000 over 3y, 42% of budgetPROACTIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES — $300,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetYWCA NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS — $200,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetSOUTHLAND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY NFP — $200,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCHICAGO SOUTHLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $150,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetTREND Community Development Corporation — $100,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRESTORATION MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANEW BUILDING BEYOND VIOLENCE AND ABUSE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHELTER CARE MINISTRIES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCrisis Center for South Suburbia — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPATHLIGHTS HUMAN SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH SUBURBAN PADS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER METRO CHICAGO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKANKAKEE COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRUNDY AREA PADS — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetROCK RIVER VALLEY PANTRY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

United Way of Metropo…The Chicago Community…Community Foundation …Northern Illinois Foo…Bergstrom Inc Charita…Midland States Bank F…Fifth Third Chicagola…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Alliance to End Homel…Guy Reno Family Found…Kristin L Anderson Ch…Tracy E Anderson Char…
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Community Foundation of Northern IL · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · Midland States Bank Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County · Guy Reno Family Foundation · Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation · Tracy E Anderson Charitable 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 Nicor Illinois Community Investment 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Nicor Illinois Community Investment Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Nicor Illinois Community Investment Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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