How much did SKILLS FOR CHICAGOLAND'S FUTURE grant in FY2023?

SKILLS FOR CHICAGOLAND'S FUTURE reported 14 grants totaling $445,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is SKILLS FOR CHICAGOLAND'S FUTURE based?

SKILLS FOR CHICAGOLAND'S FUTURE is based in IL.

SKILLS FOR CHICAGOLAND'S FUTURE

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· Public charity

SKILLS FOR CHICAGOLAND'S FUTURE

The mission of skills is to stand as a life-changing employment resource connecting underrepresented job seekers to employers with opportunities across industries.

$445k

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$150k

Largest

01What you fund

0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2023.

Human Services$315kEmployment$276kPhilanthropy$200kCivil Rights$45kEducation$25kOther$86k

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

2022

collective activitiesexpansion planning

2023

collective membermember compensation

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

03FY2023 · 14 grants

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

$24,500

Median grant

States reached

$5.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

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

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 (FY22–23, $315k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$851k · 13 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +121% since the first grant, against +34% 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$851k

$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+121%

+34%

Still filing today

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEmploymentPhilanthropyCivil RightsEducationOther

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

GP
GREATER PHOENIX CHAMBER FOUNDATION
2× · 2022–2023 · $175k · revenue +953%
ID
INSTITUTO DEL PROGRESSO LATINO
2× · 2022–2023 · $117k · revenue +89%
CU
CHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE
2× · 2022–2023 · $106k · revenue +174%

Funded once

R
READYCTgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +1547%
UW
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -8%
MA
METRO ATLANTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCEgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +34%

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.

Central Indiana Corporate

The central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is transforming our regional economy, bringing together the ceos of central indiana's largest and most civically engaged employers and university presidents to advance "big picture"…

Community Improvement

Chicago Workers' Collaborative Nfp

To provide job skills, adult education and counseling to employed and unemployed workers.

Education

Chicagoland Associated General

To deliver exceptional value to our members through industry leadership, superior services, and innovative programs.

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Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights

Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. strives to build a stronger workforce through career, skills training, employment services for career seekers, business services for employers, and labor market insights for smart workforce solutions and innovation.

Employment

Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center

The center promotes and grows chicago's entrepreneurial community.

Community Improvement

Central Minnesota Jobs & Training

Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence

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Local Economic and Employment

North Branch Works is a membership-supported nonprofit neighborhood organization that for more than three decades has promoted balanced, job-creating economic development along the North Branch of the Chicago River.

Employment

Charlotte Works

Leading the development of a skilled and in-demand workforce by engaging businesses, aligning community partners, empowering and connecting job seeker to meaningful employer, and fostering inclusive economic growth.

Employment

Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education

Catalyst for Educational Change

Catalyst for educational change (cec) is a nonprofit consulting agency that works with adult leaders in solving complex problems in educational systems. cec uses continuous improvement practices and deep collaboration to help educational…

Education

A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thrive Chicago Nfp and the most unlike its peers is Heartland Alliance International Llc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

18 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)

18/18

Grantees still filing

13/18

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$314,750Employment$276,000Philanthropy$200,000Other$85,500Civil Rights$44,500Education$25,000

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 IncIL26.2× affinity10 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 · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Allstate Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership · John D and Catherine T Macarthur · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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: GREATER PHOENIX CHAMBER FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 10.5× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 811367313 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 GREATER PHOENIX CHAMBER FOUNDATION, 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 6 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 3% 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 Skills for Chicagoland's Future?

Find your warmest path to Skills for Chicagoland's Future 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.

SKILLS FOR CHICAGOLAND'S FUTURE

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

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Skills for Chicagoland's Future?

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SKILLS FOR CHICAGOLAND'S FUTURE

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

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Skills for Chicagoland's Future?

More from the funding graph