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Pangea Cares Foundation at a glance

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Pangea Cares Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$488k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$317kHealth$265kRecreation & Sports$100kCommunity Improvement$41kHuman Services$37kEducation$25kArts & Culture$10kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
  • $250k+2 grants · $738k
$35,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$488,052
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$250,000
CHABAD OF HYDE PARK$150,000
J-LIFE OUTREACH INC$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$100,000
Individual grant recipient$45,000
CHABAD OF UIC$35,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$25,000
BETH EL CONGREGATION$15,000
DANA-FARBER'S CANCER INSTITUTE$15,000
KENESSETH ISRAEL CONGREGATION$15,000
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC$10,000
INVEST FOR KIDS$5,000
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 (FY20–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%OPERATION WARM INC: $10k → 6%OPERATION WARM INC: $7k → 6%INVEST FOR KIDS: $5k → 14%INVEST FOR KIDS: $5k → 14%INVEST FOR KIDS: $5k → 14%INVEST FOR KIDS: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
MA
IN
PA
CA
VA
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 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
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
3
The Richard H Driehaus Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Students Run Chicago
Health
5
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
6
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
7
Northern Illinois University Foundation

The niu foundation's mission is to energize and connect the private sector with the niu community to secure and steward resources that support the future and growth of niu.

Education
8
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

SRAlab is dedicated to providing the best patient outcomes through the highest-quality clinical care, translational research, scientific discovery and education.

Health
9
American Diabetes Association

The mission of the American Diabetes Association is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.

Health
10
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Ann & robert h. lurie children's hospital of chicago is dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a…

Health
11
Endeavor Health Clinical Operations

Endeavor Health Clinical Operations follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."

Health
12
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago; the most unlike its peers is Daisie Foundation. 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

11 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. 11 of the 20 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $488,052 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUniversity of Michigan: $250,000 · OtherUniversity of MichiganCHABAD OF HYDE PARK: $150,000 · OtherCHABAD OF HYDE PARKIndividual grant recipient: $45,000 · OtherGREATER CHATHAM INITIATIVE: $41,000 · OtherCHABAD AT UIC INC: $35,000 · Other+6 more: $36,700 · OtherUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $100,000 · EducationUniversity…University of Chicago: $25,000 · EducationUniversity…J-LIFE OUTREACH INC: $100,000 · ReligionInvest for Kids Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesOperation Warm Inc: $17,000 · Human ServicesDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $15,000 · HealthNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSTRIDES FOR PEACE INC: $2,675 · Public Benefit
Other$1,045,752Education$125,000Religion$100,000Human Services$37,000Health$15,000Arts & Culture$10,000Public Benefit$2,675

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 budgetUniversity of Michigan: $250,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHATHAM INITIATIVE: $41,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInvest for Kids Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAISIE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSTRIDES FOR PEACE INC: $2,675 over 1y, 0.9% 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…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL13.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Pangea Cares Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pangea Cares Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 20 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-PF 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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