· Public charity
Skills for Chicagoland's Future
See schedule othe mission of skills is to stand as a life-changing employment resource connecting underrepresented job seekers to employers with opportunities across industries.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $282k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER PHOENIX CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| CHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE | $49,500 |
| INSTITUTO DEL PROGRESSO LATINO | $40,500 |
| YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $40,000 |
| CARA PROGRAM | $33,000 |
| NORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK | $25,500 |
| HEARTLAND ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL LLC | $24,500 |
| UHLICH CHILDRENS ADVANTAGE NETWORK | $17,500 |
| CENTRAL STATES SER JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC | $15,500 |
| VIRGINIA READY INITIATIVE | $15,000 |
| JANE ADDAMS RESOURCE CORP | $11,000 |
| WEST SIDE FORWARD | $10,000 |
| METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES | $7,500 |
| PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES | $5,500 |
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 (FY22–23, $315k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +20% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- GPGREATER PHOENIX CHAMBER FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $175k · revenue +93%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS2× · 2022–2023 · $117k · revenue +30%
- YMYWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO2× · 2022–2023 · $92k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -37%
- RIREADYCT INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +230%
- MAMETRO ATLANTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +19%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Phoenix Chamber Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Phalanx Family Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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.
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 GREATER PHOENIX CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds NORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds The Cara Program ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL STATES SER JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds UCAN ↗
- Who funds PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds JANE ADDAMS RESOURCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds READYCT INC ↗
- Who funds METRO ATLANTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE FORWARD ↗
- Who funds Virginia Ready Initiative ↗
- Who funds THRIVE CHICAGO 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: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Allstate Foundation · Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Skills for Chicagoland's Future 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.
- Readyct Inc — 61% 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.