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Secondmuse Foundation
The stated mission of SECONDMUSE FOUNDATION is to foster and develop diverse, participatory innovation communities that incubate solutions to social, economic and environmental issues; including through public education, facilitating the ability of private, commercial actors, entrepreneurs and governments to generate shared visions and…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $503,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $773,725 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $270,225 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k7 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $404k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIAMI FOUNDATION | $211,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $142,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $50,000 |
| CHICAGO INNOVATION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| OUT IN TECH INC | $20,000 |
| DEPAUL UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| CHICAGO BLEND GROUP | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| P33 | $10,000 |
| LATINAS IN TECH | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +9% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $242k 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
- CBCHICAGO BLEND GROUP INC2× · 2022–2023 · $115k · revenue +10% · 37% of their budget
- DUDEPAUL UNIVERSITY2× · 2022–2023 · $55k · revenue +9%
- LILATINAS IN TECH INC2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- OHOPPORTUNITY HUBone grant, 2022 · $188k
- CICIRCULATE INITIATIVE INCone grant, 2022 · $39k · revenue -52%
- ISILLINOIS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COALITIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue +834%
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 chicagoland chamber of commerce combines the power of people, with our legacy of leadership and business advocacy, to drive a dynamic economy. we focus on delivering value for our members, making chicagoland a world-class place to live…
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…
Achieving international impact through world-class research and education in fundamental computer science and information technology.
To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.
Miami-dade innovation authority bridges the gap between private innovators and the public sector to fast track innovation that improves quality of life for miamians.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
To orchestrate business leadership in delivery of world-class educational programs and job-creating new technology ventures.
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
To realize a more equitable and inclusive economy by advancing innovative workforce solutions that equip local residents with the skills and resources to access high-growth employment opportunities in tech and other rapidly growing fields…
Promote innovation and investment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is P33 and the most unlike its peers is The Chicago Innovation Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 15 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 THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO BLEND GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds P33 ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds CIRCULATE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds LATINAS IN TECH INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO INNOVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OUT IN TECH INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COALITION ↗
- Who funds WORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds TECHUPLIFT ↗
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: New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Secondmuse Foundation 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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