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Pinnacle Foundatino Nfp

To assist small organizations that make large differences in the lives of others through the arts, education, and community service.

$23k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$38kCommunity Improvement$20kYouth Development$17kArts & Culture$11kHousing & Shelter$8kRecreation & Sports$6kCrime & Legal$6kHuman Services$3k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $9,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $22,646 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,646 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$9,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$232k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PACTT LEARNING CENTER$9,000
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 (FY20–22, $11k) 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%IGNITE: $8k → 14%PREACHERHEAD MINISTRIES: $3k → 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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$57k · 3 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
11

Total granted

$57k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+49%

Still filing today

33%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • PL
    PACTT Learning Center
    3× · 2020–2024 · $32k · revenue +43%
  • W
    WSSRA
    2× · 2020–2021 · $13k
  • SS
    SEA SCOUTS OF CHICAGO
    3× · 2020–2022 · $12k

Funded once

  • I
    IGNITEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +41%
  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB OF OAK PARK RIVER
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
  • CY
    CHICAGO YACHT CLUB
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -5%
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
5/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PACTT Learning Center: $31,750 · OtherPACTT Learning CenterWSSRA: $12,550 · OtherWSSRASEA SCOUTS OF CHICAGO: $12,300 · OtherSEA SCOUTS OF CHICAGOROTARY CLUB OF OAK PARK RIVER: $6,300 · OtherROTARY CLUB OF OAK PARK RIVERCHICAGO YACHT CLUB: $6,265 · OtherCHICAGO YACHT CLUBKOLBE HOUSE JAIL MINISTRY: $6,000 · OtherKOLBE HOUSE JAIL MINISTRYUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO COMER CHILDREN'S: $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO COMER CHILDREN'STHE ACADEMY OF MOVEMENT AND MUSIC: $5,000 · OtherTHE ACADEMY OF MOVEMENT AND MUSIC+2 more: $1,034 · OtherIGNITE: $8,000 · Human ServicesIGNITEPREACHERHEAD MINISTRIES INC: $2,700 · Human ServicesPREACHERHEA…Little Heroes League: $6,000 · PhilanthropyFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $6,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$86,199Human Services$10,700Philanthropy$6,000Arts & Culture$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPACTT Learning Center: $31,750 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetIGNITE: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO YACHT CLUB: $6,265 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLittle Heroes League: $6,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPREACHERHEAD MINISTRIES INC: $2,700 over 1y, 5.5% 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.

  • Who funds PACTT Learning Center ↗
  • Who funds IGNITE ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO YACHT CLUB ↗
  • Who funds Little Heroes League ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds PREACHERHEAD MINISTRIES INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 14 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $34k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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