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Project Projects Chicago NFP
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $46k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEYOND HUNGER | $46,219 |
| PLUS1 | $2,764 |
| THE ALLY COALITION | $2,418 |
| ARTS OF LIFE INC | $1,479 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,100 |
| CRITICAL RESISTANCE | $945 |
| BANDWITH MUSIC | $512 |
| KITCHEN POSSIBLE | $505 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $296 |
| Individual grant recipient | $265 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
| CHICAGO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE | $200 |
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 (FY18–23, $2k) 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.
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.
Strengthen United Way movement in Illinois
The mission of Chicago Jobs with Justice is to build a strong and progressive labor movement that works in coalition with student, faith and community organizations to win important campaigns for workers' rights and social and economic…
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
Cafha provides training and technical assistance to a wide array of stakeholders combating housing discrimination and promoting equitable place-based opportunity through education, advocacy, and collaborative action.
To strengthen communities through educational dialogue, leadership development, emotional resilience, and intercultural competence programs that help people bridge differences and build trust.
Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…
The Network is a group of 40+ member organizations dedicated to improving the lives of those impacted by gender-based violence through education, public policy and advocacy, and connecting community members with direct service providers.…
Green Chicago Restaurant Coalition's Guaranteed Green Sustainability Education Program educates foodservice operators about assessing the present state of their operation's environmental sustainability and helps them to develop a plan to…
To ensure that low-wage workers have access to quality jobs and are empowered to uphold and improve workplace standards.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 35 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 BEYOND HUNGER ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds THE ALLY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLINIC VEST PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds Critical Resistance ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds BANDWITH MUSIC LTD ↗
- Who funds Kitchen Possible Inc ↗
- Who funds Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Inc ↗
- Who funds FIGUEROA WU FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIALWORKS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ONE TAIL AT A TIME NFP ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RESILIENCE ↗
- Who funds MUSIC FOR RELIEF ↗
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: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Project Projects Chicago NFP 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.
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