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Pajeau Children's Foundation
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL-LOUIS UNIVERSITY | $3,096 |
| IGNITE | $2,580 |
| CASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES | $2,580 |
| OAK-LAYDEN CENTER INC | $2,580 |
| LAWRENCE HALL YOUTH SERVICES | $2,580 |
| NORTH SIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE | $2,580 |
| SAN MIGUEL FEBRES CORDERO SCHOOL | $2,580 |
| MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC | $2,064 |
| THE HARBOUR | $2,064 |
| BRIGHTPOINT | $2,064 |
| ILLINOIS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUT | $2,064 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS | $2,064 |
| HAVEN YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC | $2,064 |
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE | $2,064 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,548 |
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 (FY22–25, $64k) 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 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.
26 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- NLNational Louis University4× · 2022–2025 · $12k · revenue +23%
- NSNORTH SIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES4× · 2022–2025 · $12k · revenue +5%
- IIGNITE4× · 2022–2025 · $12k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- CCCASA CENTRALone grant, 2020 · $3k
- LHLAWRENCE HALL YOUTH SERVICES REPRESENTINGone grant, 2021 · $3k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS REPRESENTING 2021one grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
Association house's mission is to advance each person's full participation in the life of their families, communities, and society. since 1899, we have served a vibrant, multicultural community. we used a trauma informed, culturally…
Providing Social Services to Families including Child Care
The hope learning academy serves children with intellectual/developmental disabilities and neurological disorders and their families by providing homes in which to grow, schools in which to learn, clinics in which to become healthier,…
Transitions was founded in 1955 as the adams county mental health center and for many years was known as the community counseling center. in 1995 the agency changed its name to transitions of western illinois. for 65 years transitions has…
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…
In 34 cities across five countries, covenant house builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. we meet their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical and mental health…
The provision of holistic emotional and behavioral health services for individuals, families and communities with an emphasis on recovery and optimal functioning.
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…
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…
Caritas family solutions strengthens the social and emotional well-being of individuals and families in order to create healthy relationships, loving homes and strong communities.
We are a premier provider dedicated to healing children and young adults, strengthening families, and transforming communities through quality comprehensive services and advocacy. we envision a world in which children and young adults,…
Advancing lives of connection, contribution and meaning for persons with developmental disabilities and the individuals that support them.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill and the most unlike its peers is Maryville Academy Foundation. 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 52 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
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 67 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 National Louis University ↗
- Who funds NORTH SIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds IGNITE ↗
- Who funds Lawrence Hall ↗
- Who funds CASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL ↗
- Who funds MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE HARBOUR INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS AREA LTD ↗
- Who funds WINGS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds MARYVILLE ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds ZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER ↗
- Who funds OAK LEYDEN DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds REINS OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BERNIE'S BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL FEBRES CORDERO SCHOOL 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 · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Dr Scholl Foundation · Greater Chicago Food Depository · AbbVie Foundation · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Frankel Julius N Foundation · Goldenberg Max Tw M G Foundation · Blowitz-Ridgeway 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 Pajeau Children's Foundation 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.