How much did Patrick and Anna M Cudahy Fund grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of Patrick and Anna M Cudahy Fund’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

general-unrestrictedimmigrationinternationalministriesmilwaukeecareurban

2019

general-unrestrictedmilwaukeemaryknollsalvation armyministriesinternationalcare

2020

independent livingtrainingbirthascension ben'sprogrammingemergencyshelter

2021

tiacovidtrainingbirthchildren'sprogrammingemergency

2022

covidtrainingprogrammingbirthchildren'semergencyearly

2023

repairbuildingchildren'semergencydental clinicshelterlearning

2024

impactscholarshipssummer interestlaw internshipmilwaukeepreschoolscholars

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 100 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k42 grants · $263k
$10k–50k57 grants · $774k
$50k–250k1 grant · $58k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$16M

Total assets

Largest grants

Ithemba Ngemfundo Inc$57,500
Maryknoll Sisters$40,560
Greater Chicago Food Depository Inc$25,000
Seton Hill University$25,000
DePaul University College of Law$25,000
Second Nurture$25,000
GiveWell$23,500
Ignite$20,000
Sarah's Circle$20,000
Misericordia HomeHeart of Mercy$20,000
Literacy Services of Wisconsin$20,000
Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest$20,000
Meta House$15,000
All Chicago - Making Homelessness History$15,000
Forging Opportunities for Refugees in America$15,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $907k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.8M · 142 repeat orgs$974k to everyone else

142 repeat relationships — 80 still active in FY2024, 62 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

142

Total granted

$6.8M

$763k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+54%

Still filing today

54%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $212k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

Greater Chicago Food Depository Inc
8× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +97%
Environmental Law & Policy Center
6× · 2017–2022 · $145k · revenue +113%
Literacy Services of Wisconsin
8× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +92%

Funded once

SY
Southwest Youth & Family Services
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue 0%
PP
Peninsula Players Theatre Foundationgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +54%
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NAVOS
one grant, 2019 · $25k

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

04Your field

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.

Chicago United for Equity

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

Civil Rights

Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and

Create opportunities for people with barriers through training, employment, and supportive services

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Cunningham Childrens Home of Urbana Il

Provide therapeutic services to youth in educational, community, & residential care settings.

Human Services

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

Arise Chicago

Arise chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes.

Employment

The Affordable Housing Corporation of

To provide decent, safe and sanitary housing that is affordable to low and moderate-income persons and to stabilize and strengthen communities by improving the local housing stock. the corporation shall administer programs that revitalize…

Human Services

Cap Services Inc

Transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.

Human Services

Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill

We advance the well-being of children by investing in families to disrupt the systemic and multi-generational cycle of racial, social, and economic inequity.

Human Services

Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal

Goodwill Industries of South Central

Help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services.

Employment

Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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Erie Neighborhood House

Since 1870, erie neighborhood house has been an agent of hope and change to immigrant and low-income communities in chicago, enabling children to develop to their fullest potential and families to meet the challenges of poverty and build a…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Morton Arboretum. 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 42 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.9%1/116

the rest of the field

13%

6,496/50,990

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.

05the grantee network

114 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

111/114

Grantees still filing

96/114

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,189,560Human Services$907,000Housing & Shelter$654,000Education$306,000Health$256,500Environment$249,000Food & Nutrition$197,500

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.

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.

Polk Bros Foundation IncIL54.8× affinity25 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Wp & Hb White Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Helen V Brach Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · George M Eisenberg Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Chicago Food Depository

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 organisation Patrick and Anna M Cudahy Fund 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Supplies for Dreams.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 320270714 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Supplies for Dreams, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 23% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Patrick and Anna M Cudahy Fund?

Find your warmest path to Patrick and Anna M Cudahy Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Patrick and Anna M Cudahy Fund

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

114 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Patrick and Anna M Cudahy Fund?

More from the funding graph

Patrick and Anna M Cudahy Fund

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

114 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Patrick and Anna M Cudahy Fund?

More from the funding graph