· Private foundation
NSTS Charitable Foundation 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Habitat for Humanity Lake County | $10,000 |
| Youth Conservation Corps | $10,000 |
| Bed Ministry of Saint Joseph | $10,000 |
| Banzai Inc | $9,995 |
| Just for Kids | $5,000 |
| College of Lake County | $5,000 |
| Siena Catholic Schools of Racine | $5,000 |
| Saint Joseph Food Pantry | $5,000 |
| Faith Lutheran Church | $2,000 |
| A Safe Place | $1,100 |
| Nicasa Behavioral Health Services | $1,000 |
| Waukegan Historical Society | $1,000 |
| St Jude Childrens Research Hospital | $600 |
| Wags 2 Wishes | $500 |
| Plainfield Lions Charities | $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 (FY23–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 25 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- SRSPECIAL RECREATION ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL LAKE COU3× · 2022–2024 · $4k · revenue +59%
- LCLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +24%
- NNNICASA NFP2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- BMBed Ministry of St Josephone grant, 2024 · $10k
- CCCONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICE OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -6%
- HAHOSPICE ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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.
Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.
The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
Strive to improve the health and well being of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and other medically vulnerable populations by providing quality accessable, affordable, and culturally responsive health care within the community we serve.
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.
We strive to make aging easier through the development of a network of services for older persons designed to optimize the quality of their lives.
Stabilizing lives by providing supportive programs and access to community resources for individuals and families.
Community shares of illinois represents a diverse group of charitites with a common mission, to make our world a better place. whether your passion is women's issues, protecting children, helping animals, promoting health care or curbing…
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
Casa central drives change by empowering individuals and families to thrive - delivering impactful services that transform lives and uplift communities.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kenosha Literacy Council. 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 43 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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 41 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS ↗
- Who funds CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICE OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL RECREATION ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL LAKE COU ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds NICASA NFP ↗
- Who funds THE WAUKEGAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds KENOSHA LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL ↗
- Who funds PLAINFIELD LIONS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FILL A HEART 4 KIDS ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MAN UP TO CANCER ↗
- Who funds CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WRIGHT-WAY RESCUE 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: AbbVie Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · The Lake County Community Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · First Bank Chicago Foundation · Trustmark Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Lee Family Foundation · United Way of Lake County Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Gorter Family 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 NSTS Charitable Foundation 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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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