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Onechicagofund

The organization is organized and will be operated exclusively for charitable, literary, scientific, and educational purposes within the meaning of code section 501(c)(3), including for such purposes, but not limited to, the promotion of health, the promotion of social welfare, the advancement of education and science, the relief of…

$71k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$36k
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 2024.

Arts & Culture$3.3MPublic Safety & Disaster$800kHousing & Shelter$441kEducation$352kYouth Development$233kCommunity Improvement$156kRecreation & Sports$120kEmployment$33kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$36,145
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
B U I L D INCORPORATED$36,145
CHICAGO ARCHITECTURAL BIENNIAL$35,000
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 (FY17–22, $3.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL INC: $1.0M → 14%CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL INC: $950k → 14%CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL INC: $115k → 14%CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL INC: $79k → 14%CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL INC: $50k → 14%CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL: $950k → 14%PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES: $12k → 14%NEW ECLIPSE COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $12k → 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 6 repeat orgs$429k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
23

Total granted

$5.1M
$429k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+33%

Still filing today

50%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEmploymentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CA
    CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $3.1M · revenue -83% · 60% of their budget
  • CO
    CITY OF CHICAGO
    5× · 2018–2022 · $1.1M
  • LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $441k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • WB
    WORLD BUSINESS CHICAGOgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $147k · revenue +58%
  • CP
    CHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $56k · revenue +18%
  • 6N
    6018NORTH NFP
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +7%
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
The Chicago Innovation Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Students Run Chicago
Health
3
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
4
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
5
Chicago Beyond Inc
Philanthropy
6
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
7
Chicago Votes

Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government,…

Civil Rights
8
The Veterans Exchange

Employment support and exchange for veterans

—
9
The Chicago Area Project

To work toward the prevention and eradication of juvenilie deliquency through the development and support of adulated, local community self-help efforts in communities where the need is the greatest.

Crime & Legal
10
Thrive Chicago Nfp

Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.

Human Services
11
Chicago Youth Programs Inc

Tutoring and mentoring programs for inner city youth.

—
12
Equality Dream Team

Provide resources and tools to help african american youth from underserved communities aged 14-24 achieve economic sustainability through education, career, and workforce development.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children First Fund the Chicago Public Schools Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Firehouse Community Arts Center 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 29 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
18/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL INC: $3,144,000 · Human ServicesCHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL INC+2 more: $23,000 · Human ServicesCITY OF CHICAGO: $1,145,959 · OtherCITY OF CHICAGOBUILD INC: $178,173 · OtherBUILD INCCHICAGO ARCHITECTURAL BIENNIAL: $115,000 · OtherCHICAGO ARCHITECTURAL BIENNIALCHICAGO PARK DISTRICT: $53,383 · Other+7 more: $61,296 · OtherLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $441,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIA…WORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO: $147,471 · Community ImprovementWORLD BUSINE…+1 more: $8,500 · Community ImprovementCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION: $55,500 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern University: $21,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE BASEBALL INC: $11,500 · Recreation & SportsLOST BOYZINC: $8,000 · Recreation & Sports6018NORTH NFP: $25,000 · Arts & CulturePROJECT EXPLORATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER OF CHICAGO: $10,000 · Arts & CultureALLIANCE 98: $11,500 · EmploymentCOMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS: $10,000 · EmploymentGARY COMER YOUTH CENTER INC: $11,080 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INC OF CHICAGO: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $5,500 · Education
Human Services$3,167,000Other$1,553,811Community Improvement$596,971Recreation & Sports$96,000Arts & Culture$45,000Employment$21,500Youth Development$21,080Education$5,500

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 budgetCHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL INC: $3,144,000 over 6y, 60% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $441,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBUILD INC: $178,173 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO: $147,471 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION: $55,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNorthwestern University: $21,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHALANX FAMILY SERVICES: $11,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE 98: $11,500 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTHE BASEBALL INC: $11,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW ECLIPSE COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $11,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetGARY COMER YOUTH CENTER INC: $11,080 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $10,196 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT EXPLORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CIVIC FEDERATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER OF CHICAGO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGIRLS INC OF CHICAGO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLOST BOYZINC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NORA PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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…John D and Catherine …Builders Vision Found…Field Foundation of I…Robert R McCormick Fo…The Albert Pick Jr Fu…University of Chicago…Polk Bros Foundation …United Way of Metropo…The Allstate Foundati…AbbVie FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…
The Chicago Community TrustIL25.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Builders Vision Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Albert Pick Jr Fund · University of Chicago Medical Center · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Allstate Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

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 Onechicagofund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Onechicagofund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Baseball Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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How do I get to Onechicagofund?

Find your warmest path to Onechicagofund 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 29 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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