· Private foundation
Rahm Emanuel & Amy Rule Charitable Trust
Its FY2020 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC | $5,000 |
| CITIZENS UNITED FOR RESEARCH IN EPILEPSY | $5,000 |
| WINGS PROGRAM INC | $3,500 |
| HOPEWELL FUND | $2,500 |
| NORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK | $2,500 |
| MAPSCORPS | $2,500 |
| LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY | $2,500 |
| ERIE FAMILY HEALTH FOUNDATOIN | $2,500 |
| SOMETHING GOOD IN ENGLEWOOD INC | $2,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $1,211 |
| CHICAGO DANCEMAKERS FORUM | $1,000 |
| THE NOVA PROJECT | $1,000 |
| TEMPLE SHOLOM OF CHICAGO | $1,000 |
| LAKEVIEW PANTRY | $500 |
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 (FY17–18, $6k) 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +94% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- CUCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy2× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +21%
- BEBLACK ENSEMBLE THEATER CORPORATION2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +94%
CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER2× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- LCLURIE CHILDRENS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $5k
- MHMISERICORDIA HOMEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +70%
- ASANSHE SHOLOM BNAI ISRAELone grant, 2017 · $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.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Chicago scholars is transforming the leadership landscape of our city by resolving the fundamental barriers to success for academically driven, first generation college students from under-resourced communities.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children First Fund the Chicago Public Schools Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Chicago Football Classic Scholarship Fund Inc. 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 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 54 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 Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy ↗
- Who funds SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA HOME ↗
- Who funds WINGS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds MAPSCORPS ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds NORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE JOFFREY BALLET ↗
- Who funds Erie Family Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FOOTBALL CLASSIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUSH FOR EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SOMETHING GOOD IN ENGLEWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK ENSEMBLE THEATER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds Chicago Dancemakers Forum ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CONTEXTOS NFP ↗
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 · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Allstate Foundation · University of Chicago Medical Center · Walder Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · The Joyce Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · AbbVie 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 Rahm Emanuel & Amy Rule Charitable Trust 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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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