· Private foundation
Streska Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH RIVER COMMISSION | $6,000 |
| QUEEN OF ALL SAINTS | $5,000 |
| MAYFAIR CIVIC ASSOCIATION | $4,000 |
| NORTHWEST ARTS CONNECTION | $3,000 |
| WELL OF MERCY | $3,000 |
| MISERICORDIA HEART OF MERCY | $2,500 |
| MAYFAIR PARK ADVISORY COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| MERCY HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| ALZHEIMER ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| BINSTEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ALBANY PARK THEATER PROJECT | $1,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $1,000 |
| BUILDING PEACEFUL BRIDGES | $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 (FY20–24, $9k) 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.
11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- NRNORTH RIVER COMMISSION3× · 2021–2024 · $36k · revenue +226%
- QOQUEEN OF ALL SAINTS3× · 2020–2024 · $10k
- WOWELL OF MERCY INC2× · 2022–2024 · $8k · revenue -27%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $6k
- FOFRIENDS OF ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $1k
- CPCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INCone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue -8%
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.
Operation of studio space and facilities for community radio station. The station is intended to benefit thousands of listeners and various music and arts appreciation groups throughout the chicago area.
To impact society through the powerful tools of media and film. we are a resource for uniting individuals interested in media and developing a core group of informed citizens.
The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.
Chicago Workers' Collaborative's mission is to promote full employment and equality for the lowest wage-earners, primarily temporary staffing workers, in the Chicago region through leadership and skills training, critical assistance and…
Cinema/Chicago, the non-profit 501(c)(3) presenting organization of the Chicago International Film Festival, enriches the community through year-round programming devoted to international and independent cinema. We strengthen communication…
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Chicago sun-times serves the public interest by strengthening the well-being of our local communities and our democracy through independent local journalism.
Garfield Park Community Council is dedicated to the revitalization of Garfield Park community on Chicago's West Side, a neighborhood of rich history, committed residents, and tremendous opportunities.
To Provide counseling, crisis intervention, case management, psychosocial rehabilitative and vocational services to mentally ill and substance abuse clients in outpatient and community based settings.
Chicago Women in Philanthropy (CWIP) promotes collaboration between philanthropic and nonprofit leaders by offering opportunities to share ideas and insight and to network. CWIP gives voice to the gender lens by encouraging philanthropic…
Block club chicago is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to delivering reliable, nonpartisan and essential coverage of chicago's diverse neighborhoods.
Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Public Media Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan Interfaith Counseling Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 NORTH RIVER COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds WELL OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds Albany Park Theater Project ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES OF GLENVIEWNORTHBROOK ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING PEACEFUL BRIDGES ↗
- Who funds Chicago Cabaret Professionals ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds Samaritan Interfaith Counseling Center ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Streska Family Foundation 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.
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.