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North Shore Exchange Nfp

North shore exchange is a nonprofit organization that primarily supports chicagoland charities serving children and families living in poverty through a unique combination of luxury consignment, designer shopping, and volunteerism.

$600k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$1.1MHuman Services$1.1MFood & Nutrition$703kHealth$561kCrime & Legal$361kReligion$80kEmployment$79kPublic Safety & Disaster$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k12 grants · $400k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$35,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARE FOR REAL$100,000
JOURNEYSTHE ROAD HOME$100,000
FENIX FAMILY HEALTH CENTER$45,000
MARGARET'S VILLAGE$35,000
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$35,000
INSPIRATION CORPORATION$35,000
FILL A HEART 4 KIDS$35,000
LA CASA NORTE$35,000
WINGS PROGRAM INC$35,000
THE HARBOUR INC$35,000
NOURISHING HOPE$35,000
NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC$35,000
FAMILY SERVICES OF GLENCOE$30,000
ILLINOIS FIRE SAFETY ALLIANCE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CARE FOR REAL: $100k → 14%CARE FOR REAL: $100k → 14%INSPIRATION CORPORATION: $35k → 14%CARE FOR REAL: $30k → 14%CARE FOR REAL: $25k → 14%FILL A HEART 4 KIDS: $35k → 8%Fill a Heart 4 Kids: $30k → 8%THE NIGHT MINISTRIES: $25k → 14%Fill a Heart 4 Kids: $30k → 8%CARE FOR REAL: $20k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRIES: $20k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRIES: $13k → 14%BETWEEN FRIENDS: $25k → 14%FAMILY SERVICES OF GLENCOE: $50k → 14%FAMILY SERVICES OF GLENCOE: $50k → 14%FAMILY SERVICES OF GLENCOE: $50k → 14%FAMILY SERVICES OF GLENCOE: $50k → 14%FAMILY SERVICES OF GLENCOE: $50k → 14%CASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES: $40k → 14%FAMILY SERVICES OF GLENCOE: $30k → 14%FAMILY SERVICES OF GLENCOE: $30k → 14%CASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES: $25k → 14%FAMILY SERVICES OF GLENCOE: $30k → 14%FAMILY SERVICES OF GLENCOE: $25k → 14%CASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES: $15k → 14%CONNECT FOR ABUSED WOMENCHIL: $12k → 14%FAMILY FOCUS INC: $13k → 14%JOURNEYSTHE ROAD HOME: $100k → 14%SHARE OUR SPACE: $100k → 14%SHARE OUR SPACE: $25k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTL: $18k → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $100k → 14%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $18k → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $10k → 14%HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 14%HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $19k → 14%THE HARBOUR INC: $35k → 14%THE HARBOUR INC: $30k → 14%THE HARBOUR INC: $30k → 14%THE HARBOUR INC: $30k → 14%THE HARBOUR INC: $15k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 27 repeat orgs$513k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
15

Total granted

$3.6M
$343k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+62%

Still filing today

100%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalEmploymentHealthFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $365k · revenue +19%
  • CARE FOR REAL
    5× · 2019–2025 · $275k · revenue +24%
  • NH
    NOURISHING HOPE
    6× · 2018–2025 · $250k · revenue +260%

Funded once

  • IW
    INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGOgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +31%
  • CA
    COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COOK COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +25%
  • JB
    James B Moran Center for Yout
    one grant, 2024 · $30k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Center for Family Services

Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…

Human Services
2
Lakeside Community Committee

To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.

Human Services
3
Child Link Inc

Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…

Human Services
4
Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for

Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.

Education
5
Childrens Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal
6
Chicago Children's Advocacy Center

The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.

Crime & Legal
7
Illinois Community for Displaced Immigrants

Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.

Human Services
8
Center for Housing and Health

Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
9
Chicago Refugee Coalition

The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.

Human Services
10
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
11
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness

Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness (CCH) builds community power and advances racial equity through organizing, advocacy, legal assistance, and education to prevent and end homelessness because housing is a human right.

Housing & Shelter
12
Legal Aid Chicago

At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc; the most unlike its peers is Curt's Cafe. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
35/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE: $365,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOECARE FOR REAL: $275,000 · Human ServicesCARE FOR REALTHE HARBOUR INC: $140,000 · Human ServicesTHE HARBOUR INCShare our Spare: $125,000 · Human ServicesShare our SpareCHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $110,000 · Human ServicesCHICAGO FURNITURE BANKPADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $100,000 · Human ServicesPADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOMEFILL A HEART 4 KIDS: $95,000 · Human ServicesFILL A HEART 4 KIDSCASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION: $80,000 · Human ServicesTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $57,500 · Human Services+7 more: $160,000 · Human Services+7 moreNOURISHING HOPE: $250,000 · OtherNOURISHING HOPECHILDREN'S RESEARCH TRIANGLE: $154,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S RESEARCH TRIAN…HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES AND MAINTENANCE FOR THE ELDERLY INC: $84,000 · OtherHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES AND…FAMILY PROMISE CHICAGO NORTH SHORE: $75,000 · OtherFAMILY PROMISE CHICAGO NO…INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO: $50,000 · OtherINFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF…CASA LAKE COUNTY INC: $91,000 · OtherCASA LAKE COUNTY INC+9 more: $205,000 · Other+9 moreWINGS PROGRAM INC: $205,400 · Housing & ShelterWINGS PROGRAM I…LA CASA NORTE: $205,000 · Housing & ShelterLA CASA NORTECONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $93,500 · Housing & ShelterCONNECTIONS FOR…SARAH'S CIRCLE: $65,000 · Housing & ShelterSARAH'S CIRCLEFenix Family Health Center: $172,250 · HealthFenix Fami…OLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC: $160,000 · HealthOLD IRVING…ILLINOIS FIRE SAFETY ALLIANCE: $60,000 · HealthILLINOIS F…MARGARETS VILLAGE: $242,250 · ReligionREFUGEEONE: $80,000 · ReligionNORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC: $165,000 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ILLINOIS: $35,000 · Crime & LegalCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COOK COUNTY: $30,000 · Crime & LegalJAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY: $10,000 · Crime & LegalNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $130,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $47,500 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$1,507,500Other$909,000Housing & Shelter$568,900Health$392,250Religion$322,250Crime & Legal$240,000Food & Nutrition$177,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE: $365,000 over 9y, 7.4% of budgetCARE FOR REAL: $275,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetNOURISHING HOPE: $250,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMARGARETS VILLAGE: $242,250 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetWINGS PROGRAM INC: $205,400 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetLA CASA NORTE: $205,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetFenix Family Health Center: $172,250 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetNORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC: $165,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetOLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC: $160,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S RESEARCH TRIANGLE: $154,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTHE HARBOUR INC: $140,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $130,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetShare our Spare: $125,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $110,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $100,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetFILL A HEART 4 KIDS: $95,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $93,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCASA LAKE COUNTY INC: $91,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES AND MAINTENANCE FOR THE ELDERLY INC: $84,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetREFUGEEONE: $80,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION: $80,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE CHICAGO NORTH SHORE: $75,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetSARAH'S CIRCLE: $65,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetILLINOIS FIRE SAFETY ALLIANCE: $60,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $57,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetINFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $47,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHoward Area Community Center: $39,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ILLINOIS: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInspiration Corporation: $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COOK COUNTY: $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Cara Program: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCURT'S CAFE: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLawrence Hall: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH & OPPORTUNITY UNITED INC: $16,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEMBARC INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILY FOCUS LEGACY: $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHighland Park Community Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Chicago Community…United Way of Metropo…Circle of Service Fou…George M Eisenberg Fo…AbbVie FoundationThe Egerter Family Fo…Visiting Nurse Associ…WP & HB White Foundat…Robert R McCormick Fo…Helen V Brach Foundat…Dr Scholl FoundationPolk Bros Foundation …
The Chicago Community TrustIL43× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · AbbVie Foundation · The Egerter Family Foundation · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · WP & HB White Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization North Shore Exchange Nfp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from North Shore Exchange Nfp. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to North Shore Exchange Nfp?

    Find your warmest path to North Shore Exchange Nfp 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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