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Shodeen Family Foundation at a glance

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Shodeen Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$101k
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$261kEducation$159kRecreation & Sports$109kCrime & Legal$84kHuman Services$79kHousing & Shelter$70kReligion$51kArts & Culture$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k46 grants · $91k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS$10,000
SUNNYSIDE FARMS$5,000
OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC$5,000
ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEV$5,000
VIP SERVICES INC$5,000
ROB KORANDA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$5,000
MILL CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO$5,000
HESED HOUSE$5,000
ECKER CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH$5,000
IL FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION$5,000
CASA KANE COUNTY$4,000
WAUBONSEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$4,000
FELLOW MORTALS WILDLIFE HOSPITAL$2,500
BIG FOOT LIONS CLUB$2,000
GHS SCHOLARSHIP-UNIV MICHIGAN OFC OF FINANCIAL AID-SCHOLARSHIPS$2,000
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 (FY17–25, $174k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LAZARUS HOUSE: $10k → 8%LAZARUS HOUSE: $10k → 8%LAZARUS HOUSE: $10k → 8%LAZARUS HOUSE: $10k → 8%LAZARUS HOUSE: $10k → 8%LAZARUS HOUSE: $10k → 8%UCP SEGUIN: $10k → 14%UCP SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO: $500 → 14%LAZARUS HOUSE: $3k → 8%UCP SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO: $500 → 14%LAZARUS HOUSE: $2k → 8%LAZARUS HOUSE: $1k → 8%LAZARUS HOUSE: $1k → 8%LAZARUS HOUSE: $1k → 8%LAZARUS HOUSE: $1k → 8%THE JOSHUA TREE COMMUNITY: $1k → 8%LAKE GENEVA FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 10%LAKE GENEVA FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 10%ELDERDAY CENTER: $1k → 8%TRI-CITY FAMILY SERVICES: $6k → 8%TRI-CITY FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 8%ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEV: $15k → 8%ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEV: $15k → 8%ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEV: $15k → 8%ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEV: $15k → 8%ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEV: $5k → 8%HESED HOUSE: $5k → 8%ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEV: $3k → 8%ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEV: $3k → 8%HESED HOUSE: $2k → 8%ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEV: $2k → 8%ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEV: $1k → 8%TRI-CITY FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 8%HESED HOUSE: $1k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
IN
OH
CA
WV
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$966k · 71 repeat orgs$170k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

71 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
84

Total granted

$966k
$134k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+32%

Still filing today

46%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • AF
    ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT
    7× · 2019–2025 · $74k · revenue +83%
  • LH
    LAZARUS HOUSE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +71%
  • VS
    VIP SERVICES INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF FOX RIVER VALLEY
    one grant, 2023 · $14k
  • NM
    NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • WC
    WI CONFERENCE CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Childrens Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal
2
Chicago Survivors Inc

Offer crisis intervention, supportive counseling and comprehensive referral services to surviving family members throughout chicago following homicide; provide training in sensitive and effective communication with and treatment of…

Youth Development
3
Hospice of Southern Illinois Inc

Care to terminal patients/families

Human Services
4
Northern Illinois Blood Bank Inc D/B/a Rock River Valley Blood Center

Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.

Health
5
The 100 Club of Illinois

The 100 club of illinois provides resources, several forms of financial support, access to training, and moral support to the families of first responders who have lost their lives in the line of duty and active duty first responders. all…

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6
Illinois Psychiatric Society

To advocate for the highest quality care for patients with psychiatric disorders

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7
Seniors Assistance Center

Seniors Assistance Center provides necessary services to senior citizens of unincorporated Norwood Park Township, and the villages of Norridge and Harwood Heights. These services include home delivered meals, information and assistance,…

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8
The Illinois Center for Autism

Educating and serving children and adults with autism to achieve their highest level of independence within their home, family and community.

Human Services
9
Epilepsy Foundation of Michigan

The epilepsy foundation of michigan leads the fight to overcome the challenges of living with epilepsy and to accelerate therapies to stop seizures, find cures, and save lives.

Health
10
Eldercare Lake County

Promote the health and independence of lake county, il, older adults

Human Services
11
Epilepsy Services for Northeastern Il

Help those affected with epilepsy

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12
Gilda's Club Chicago

To ensure that all people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fellow Mortals Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rob Koranda Scholarship Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

68 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 68 of the 178 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/68
Grantees still filing
48/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY: $105,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $36,655 · OtherGENEVA HIGH SCHOOL: $32,000 · OtherVIP SERVICES INC: $30,500 · OtherWAUBONSEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $28,000 · Other+133 more: $482,610 · Other+133 moreASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT: $73,775 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION FOR I…LAZARUS HOUSE: $68,500 · Human ServicesLAZARUS HOUSEUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO: $11,000 · Human ServicesUNITED CEREBRAL P…TRICITY FAMILY SERVICES: $8,550 · Human ServicesPUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE: $8,000 · Human Services+3 more: $4,500 · Human ServicesSUNNYSIDE FARMS INC: $30,000 · HealthSUNNYSIDE…OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC: $19,500 · HealthOPEN ARMS…SUICIDE PREVENTION SERVICES INC: $18,000 · HealthSUICIDE P…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,500 · HealthALZHEIMER…GIFT OF HOPE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthThe Blue Bird Circle: $5,000 · HealthCROP FOR A CAUSE: $3,500 · Health+9 more: $7,650 · Health+9 moreCASA KANE COUNTY: $82,300 · Civil RightsWHEATON ACADEMY: $13,000 · EducationMILL CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO: $10,000 · EducationYERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · EducationSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $13,000 · EnvironmentECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · EnvironmentGENEVA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 · Environment+1 more: $500 · EnvironmentROB KORANDA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $12,500 · PhilanthropyMOOSE CHARITIES INC: $3,500 · PhilanthropyHARDYSTRONG FOUNDATION NFP: $2,000 · PhilanthropyGENEVA COMMUNITY CHEST: $1,500 · PhilanthropyKnicker Open Charities: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCLEARWATER CAPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$714,765Human Services$174,325Health$94,150Civil Rights$82,300Education$28,500Environment$25,500Philanthropy$21,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCASA KANE COUNTY: $82,300 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT: $73,775 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE: $68,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetVIP SERVICES INC: $30,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSUNNYSIDE FARMS INC: $30,000 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetLiving Well Cancer Resource Center: $23,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetOPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC: $19,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSUICIDE PREVENTION SERVICES INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetGENEVA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS: $14,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetWHEATON ACADEMY: $13,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOW MORTALS INC: $12,750 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetROB KORANDA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILL CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO: $10,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI KDK: $8,900 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetTRICITY FAMILY SERVICES: $8,550 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANDERSON ANIMAL SHELTER: $7,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFONTANA (BIG FOOT) LIONS CLUB INC: $6,750 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGENEVA LAKE SAILING SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGIFT OF HOPE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Blue Bird Circle: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCROP FOR A CAUSE: $3,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetHOPE FOR HAITIANS INC: $2,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE GENEVA FOOD PANTRY: $2,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetROCK CENTRAL INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGENEVA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHARDYSTRONG FOUNDATION NFP: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGENEVA COMMUNITY CHEST: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAURORA AREA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONLEY OUTREACH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKnicker Open Charities: $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS APFV INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOSHUA TREE COMMUNITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZELLMER CHILDHOOD DISEASE FOUNDATION NFP DBA ZELLMER WELLNESS FOUNDATION NFP: $1,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ROCKFORD COUNCIL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEARWATER CAPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGENEVA ALL SPORTS BOOSTERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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 CASA KANE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds VIP SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds SUNNYSIDE FARMS INC ↗
  • Who funds Living Well Cancer Resource Center ↗
  • Who funds OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds SUICIDE PREVENTION SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds GENEVA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds WHEATON ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FELLOW MORTALS INC ↗
  • Who funds ROB KORANDA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds MILL CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds ECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds NAMI KDK ↗
  • Who funds TRICITY FAMILY SERVICES ↗

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Fox Valley United WayKunes Family Foundati…Inc Mental Health All…The Raymond C and Lin…Hansen-Furnas Foundat…Dunham FundDunham FoundationThe Bersted FoundationUnited Way of Metropo…Geneva Community ChestHarvey and Ethel Daeu…
Community Foundation of the Fox River ValleyIL41.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Fox Valley United Way · Kunes Family Foundation · Inc Mental Health Alliance · The Raymond C and Linda M Stachowiak Foundation · Hansen-Furnas Foundation Inc · Dunham Fund · Dunham Foundation · The Bersted Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Geneva Community Chest · Harvey and Ethel Daeumer Foundation

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 Shodeen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shodeen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc: 23% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 178 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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