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Silver Cross Healthy Community Commission

Provide operational support and scholarships to members of the community and community organizations and economic opportunities benefiting the residents of communities served by Silver Cross Hospital.

$160k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Employment$114kFood & Nutrition$86kHuman Services$80kEducation$72kHealth$48kYouth Development$21kCommunity Improvement$7k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $144,622, the rows itemized in this filing. The $159,702 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,080 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $117k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
National Hook-up of Black Women$25,000
Redeemed Connection Ministries$17,280
Warren-Sharpe Center$16,500
Senior Services Center Will County$15,000
East Joliet Athletics$13,220
Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago$10,000
Fighting Chance Foundation$10,000
Harvey Brooks Foundation$10,000
After the Peanut Foundation$8,672
Tealight Foundation$7,000
Pearl Essence Foundation$6,000
Spirited in Success$5,950
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Spanish Community Center: $9k → 7%Spanish Community Center: $2k → 7%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.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$519k · 14 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
4

Total granted

$519k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+19%

Still filing today

43%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
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

  • AT
    AFTER THE PEANUT FOUNDATION NFP
    4× · 2022–2025 · $45k · revenue +254%
  • SC
    SPANISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    2× · 2022–2024 · $11k · revenue +111%
  • UC
    UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY CENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICES
    2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • SC
    Silver Cross Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +17%
  • NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +19%
  • CS
    Community Service Council
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
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
National Congress of Black Women Inc Kansas City
Civil Rights
2
Network for Developing Conscious Communities Inc

NDCC works collaboratively with partners to conduct and contract with others to conduct general organizational training activities including engaging in conferences and membership solicitation to educate, organize and distribute leadership…

Housing & Shelter
3
National Coalition of 100 Black Women

We advocate on behalf of black women and girls to promote leadership development and genderequity in the arers of Health, Education, Economic Empowerment and Public Policy.

Human Services
4
National Coalition of 100 Black Women
Philanthropy
5
Greater Huntsville Area National Coalition of 100 Black Women Inc

The organization had a gala to raise money for scholarships and community events

Human Services
6
Excel Chartiable Foundation

The mission of Excel Charitable Foundation is to develop and execute programs that promote development for the youth in the areas of academics, Health, social engagement and civic awareness. Leveraging the resources of our partnerships, we…

Human Services
7
Black American Community Outreach Inc

To support black community memebers with resources and tools in an effort to promote and encourage economic growth, academic success, and job kills while encouraging and providing opportunity to serve in the community

Human Services
8
The New York State Black Occupational Therapy Caucus Corp

To provide educational programs, mentorship, leadership development and professional support for Black Occupational Therapy practitioners

Human Services
9
Pirate Excellence Foundation

Povide scolarships to students

Education
10
Hispanic Council

Education

Community Improvement
11
Blackstone Community Center Council Inc

Summer enrichment programafter school educational programpool and recreational activities

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12
Black Women United

Education of black women

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naacp Empowerment Programs Inc; the most unlike its peers is Coalition of Black Trade Unionists. 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HISPANIC LATINO COALITION OF WILL AND GRUNDY COUNTIES: $56,000 · OtherHISPANIC LATINO COALITION OF WILL AND GRUNDY COUNTIESREDEEMED CONNECTION MINISTRIES NFP: $54,302 · OtherREDEEMED CONNECTION MINISTRIES NFPFFIGHTING CHANCE: $52,006 · OtherFFIGHTING CHANCESENIOR SERVICES CENTER OF WILL COUNTY: $42,500 · OtherSENIOR SERVICES CENTER OF WILL COUNTYTEALIGHT FOUNDATION INC: $32,000 · OtherTEALIGHT FOUNDATION INCNational Hook-Up of Black Women: $30,260 · OtherNational Hook-Up of Black WomenSilver Cross Foundation: $15,000 · OtherEast Joliet Athletics: $13,220 · Other+5 more: $35,950 · Other+5 moreHARVEY BROOKS MOTIVATION & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $34,800 · Youth DevelopmentHARVEY BROOKS…Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana: $31,245 · Youth DevelopmentGirl Scouts o…WARREN SHARPE COMMUNITY CENTER: $55,492 · Recreation & SportsWARREN SHA…NATIONAL HOOK-UP OF BLACK WOMENJOLIET CHAPTER: $47,000 · EducationNATIONAL …AFTER THE PEANUT FOUNDATION NFP: $44,672 · Community ImprovementTHE PEARL ESSENCE FOUNDATION INCORPORAT: $17,000 · PhilanthropySPANISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $11,308 · Human Services
Other$331,238Youth Development$66,045Recreation & Sports$55,492Education$47,000Community Improvement$44,672Philanthropy$17,000Human Services$11,308

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWARREN SHARPE COMMUNITY CENTER: $55,492 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetNATIONAL HOOK-UP OF BLACK WOMENJOLIET CHAPTER: $47,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetAFTER THE PEANUT FOUNDATION NFP: $44,672 over 4y, 16% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES CENTER OF WILL COUNTY: $42,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana: $31,245 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSilver Cross Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSPANISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $11,308 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY CENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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 WARREN SHARPE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL HOOK-UP OF BLACK WOMENJOLIET CHAPTER ↗
  • Who funds AFTER THE PEANUT FOUNDATION NFP ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR SERVICES CENTER OF WILL COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds HARVEY BROOKS MOTIVATION & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana ↗
  • Who funds THE PEARL ESSENCE FOUNDATION INCORPORAT ↗
  • Who funds Silver Cross Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SPANISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY CENTER FOR DISABILITY 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.

United Way of Will Co…Northern Illinois Foo…Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way of Will CountyIL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Will County · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Amazonsmile 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 Silver Cross Healthy Community Commission funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Silver Cross Healthy Community Commission. Bigger dots raise more.

2022
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Silver Cross Healthy Community Commission?

    Find your warmest path to Silver Cross Healthy Community Commission through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 20 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 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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