How much did RUSSELL AND JOSEPHINE KOTT MEMORIAL grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of RUSSELL AND JOSEPHINE KOTT MEMORIAL’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

2021

mealslivingfood pantry

2022

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2023

peoples

2025

concordia univeristymealsfoodpantry

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

03FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $19k
$10k–50k31 grants · $581k
$50k–250k10 grants · $710k
$250k+1 grant · $380k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$39M

Total assets

Largest grants

AGEOPTIONS$380,000
CONCORDIA UNIVERISTY OPERATING$130,000
DEPAUL UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT$100,000
CENTER FOR DISABILITY AND ELDER LAW$85,000
CONCORDIA UNIVERISTY INSTITUTIONAL$70,000
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR PALATINE$65,000
CHICAGO SCOTS$60,000
NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER$50,000
AGING CARE CONNECTIONS$50,000
LUTHERAN CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES$50,000
WEST COOK YMCA$50,000
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF IL$45,000
CASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION$35,000
QUINN CENTER OF SAINT EULALIA$30,000
WINDOW TO THE WORLD$30,000

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 (FY18–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.8M · 35 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.8M

$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+41%

Still filing today

86%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $806k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterEducationHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

CU
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO
4× · 2018–2023 · $687k · revenue +4%
OP
OAK PARK RIVER FOREST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
2× · 2022–2023 · $628k · revenue +19%
A
AGEOPTIONS
5× · 2018–2025 · $550k · revenue +81%

Funded once

KG
KOTT GERENTOLOGY INSTITUTE
one grant, 2018 · $260k
KG
KOTT GERONTOLOFY INSTITUTE
one grant, 2021 · $200k
CU
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC
one grant, 2021 · $80k · revenue +8%

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.

Community Nutrition Network and Senior

Provide congregate and home delivered meals and nutrition information to eligible seniors.

Human Services

Central Illinois Agency On Aging Inc

Central illinois agency on aging believes in the independence and dignity of older persons, and that each older person should be empowered to exert control over their own life & have access to needed services. we do planning, program…

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The Chicago Fund On Aging and Disability

Our mission is to ensure that Chicago seniors and people with disabilities benefit from nutritious meal programs that improve their quality of life and maximize independence.

Food & Nutrition

Care Partners of Cook County

Care Partners of Cook County provides support and companionship on the journey of aging and serious illness

Human Services

Seniors Assistance Center

Provide necessary services to senior citizens.

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Northwestern Il Area Agency On Aging

To enable older persons to live in dignity and independence.

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Illinois Presbyterian Home

Housing for the elderly

Human Services

Elder Care Services

Elder care services of dekalb county, inc. was established to promote and further the welfare of senior citizens and their families who live in dekalb county, through the provision of services which improve their well being.

Crime & Legal

Eldercare Lake County

Promote the health and independence of elderly residents of lake county, il

Human Services

Ageguide Northeastern Illinois

We advocate and coordinate resources such as meals and caregiver support to help older adults age well.

Food & Nutrition

Senior Community Services

Our Mission: Empowering people as they age. Our Vision: Reimagine Aging by serving compassionately, connecting communities, and supporting independence. Our Promise: We are committed to creating a culture of belonging for all our staff,…

Human Services

Lutheran Retirement Home

Lutheran retirement home is a christian based continuum of service enriching lives by providing care and compassion to our residents and our communities

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa Central Social Services Corporation and the most unlike its peers is L'arche Chicago 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 48 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/51

the rest of the field

13%

4,794/36,708

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

50 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)

50/50

Grantees still filing

44/50

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,339,508Human Services$1,810,800Education$841,787Philanthropy$808,419Health$487,000Arts & Culture$190,000Food & Nutrition$130,200

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.

United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL37.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · George M Eisenberg Foundation · Ageoptions Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Oak Park-River Forest · AbbVie Foundation · Greater Chicago Food Depository · The Dupage Community Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · The a Montgomery Ward Foundation · Healthy Communities Foundation · Dr Scholl 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 organisation RUSSELL AND JOSEPHINE KOTT MEMORIAL 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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: CENTER FOR DISABILITY AND ELDER LAW.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~9 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 363203809 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 CENTER FOR DISABILITY AND ELDER LAW, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 11% 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 Russell and Josephine Kott Memorial?

Find your warmest path to Russell and Josephine Kott Memorial 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.

RUSSELL AND JOSEPHINE KOTT MEMORIAL

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

50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Russell and Josephine Kott Memorial?

More from the funding graph

RUSSELL AND JOSEPHINE KOTT MEMORIAL

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

50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Russell and Josephine Kott Memorial?

More from the funding graph