· Public charity
North Avenue Day Nursery
To provide childcare services at the community level to children from low-income families and to stabilize the lives and develop the skills of low-income individuals so that they may become productive community members
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Onward Neighborhood House | $75,000 |
| Merillac St Vincent Family | $75,000 |
| Erie Neighborhood House | $75,000 |
| Emerald City Theatre Company | $75,000 |
| The Menomonee Club | $40,000 |
| Storehouse Ministries | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 +91% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- ENERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE2× · 2017–2018 · $825k · revenue +91%
- ECEMERALD CITY THEATRE COMPANY2× · 2017–2018 · $575k
- MSMerillac St Vincent Family2× · 2017–2018 · $575k
Funded once
- UVUNITING VOICESone grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +22%
- BSBLIND SERVICE ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +113%
- AHASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGOgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +84%
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.
Concordia place's continuum of programs support families throughout their children's development, from the neonatal period through college entry: home visiting for expecting parents and infants, early childhood education and care for…
The organization is organized to provide social services for children and families from Birth thru five years of age. Our mission is to "improve the quality of life for families in culturally and economically diverse Chicago communities by…
Neighborhood house is a whole-family community center located in louisville's west end. our mission is to support families by creating a community of opportunity. together with our members, we connect to one another and to resources, break…
Christopher house is a family of schools that helps children and families succeed in school, the workplace, and life. through our unique and innovative approach, we are effectively closing the opportunity gap through a continuum of…
Erie elementary charter school was formed in 2005 to provide educational and community opportunities for youths, grades k-8. the school is a bi-literate school focusing on heritage and culture.
THE ORGANIZATION enriches the lives of the young Chicago of children with their classic fairy tale productions. The ORGANIZATION colorful shows introduce children ages 2 to 10 to the magic of live theater, and inspire children to laugh,…
To help people with developmental disabilities meet life's challenges and reach their highest potential.
Lookingglass theatre company is a national leader in the creation and presentation of innovative, cutting-edge theatrical work. lookingglass interweaves movement, circus arts and narrative in original and captivating ways. guided by an…
To provide early development and day care services to preschool children
Tutoring chicago delivers the power of education through one-to-one tutoring.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Onward Neighborhood House and the most unlike its peers is Lutheran Day Nursery Association of Chicago. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 13 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 ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds EMERALD CITY THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ONWARD NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds UNITING VOICES ↗
- Who funds BLIND SERVICE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Day Nursery Association of Chicago ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE MENOMONEE CLUB ↗
- Who funds SIT STAY READ 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 Chicago Community Trust · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Donley Foundation-Ud Dtd 12-8-86 · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Pwc Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 North Avenue Day Nursery 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.
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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