Illinois · Public charity
Social Venture Partners Chicago Inc
Social venture partners chicago accelerates the positive community change championed by innovative non-profits through engaged investing to build their capacity and impact. The breadth, depth and willingness of our partners to engage with non profits and to learn from each other and those we support is critical to the partnership and our…
- $50k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2024
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $11,605
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 7
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $199k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Social Venture Partners Chicago Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 10 | $122k | 70% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $45k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $100k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $159k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $159k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $68k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $68k | 75% |
| FY2017 | 5 | $93k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| True Star Foundation Inc | $135,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Embarc Inc | $122,200 | 4 | 1% |
| Metropolitan Tenants Organization | $115,640 | 4 | 6% |
| Primo Center for Women & Children | $88,900 | 4 | 1% |
| Breakthrough Urban Ministries Inc | $83,000 | 4 | 0% |
| One Million Degrees | $40,360 | 2 | 0% |
| Ladies of Virtue | $37,500 | 4 | 3% |
| Imagine Englewood If NFP | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Project Syncere | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Bloc | $18,090 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| True Star Foundation Inc | $135,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Embarc Inc | $122,200 | 4 | 1% |
| Metropolitan Tenants Organization | $115,640 | 4 | 6% |
| Primo Center for Women & Children | $88,900 | 4 | 1% |
| Breakthrough Urban Ministries Inc | $83,000 | 4 | 0% |
| One Million Degrees | $40,360 | 2 | 0% |
| Ladies of Virtue | $37,500 | 4 | 3% |
| Imagine Englewood If NFP | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Project Syncere | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Bloc | $18,090 | 1 | 1% |
| 530 Scholars | $12,170 | 1 | n/a |
| Peace Runners 773 Nfp Co | $12,012 | 1 | 6% |
| The Baseball Inc | $11,605 | 1 | 0% |
| Leap Learning Systems | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Firehouse Community Arts Center of Chicago | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Black United Fund of Illinois Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Austin African American Business Network NFP | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Latino Union of Chicago | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Project OneTen | $9,291 | 1 | n/a |
| Amplified Voices | $8,525 | 1 | n/a |
| Housing Opportunities and Maintenance for the Elderly Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Burst Into Books | $5,050 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Social Venture Partners Chicago Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Albert Pick Jr Fund · The Joyce Foundation · A Better Chicago · Chicago Beyond Inc · The Seabury Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Vivo Foundation
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About Social Venture Partners Chicago Inc
- How much does Social Venture Partners Chicago Inc give?
- Social Venture Partners Chicago Inc reported 10 grants totaling $50,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Social Venture Partners Chicago Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (43%), Housing & Shelter (26%), Community Improvement (12%).
- Who are Social Venture Partners Chicago Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: True Star Foundation Inc ($135k), Embarc Inc ($122k), Metropolitan Tenants Organization ($116k).
- Does Social Venture Partners Chicago Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Social Venture Partners Chicago Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Polk Bros Foundation Inc, Robert R McCormick Foundation.
- Where is Social Venture Partners Chicago Inc based?
- Social Venture Partners Chicago Inc is based in IL.
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