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· Public charity

Strides for Peace Inc

To increase the collective impact of community organizations working to end gun violence, save lives and build a stronger chicago.

$21k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$278kEducation$152kReligion$106kArts & Culture$60kRecreation & Sports$55kHuman Services$53kCommunity Improvement$40kCrime & Legal$23kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $10,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $21,250 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $11,250 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.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$132k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PAVING THE WAY$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY19–24, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Paving the Way: $15k → 14%Paving the Way: $10k → 14%Paving the Way: $10k → 14%PAVING THE WAY: $10k → 14%Paving the Way: $7k → 14%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 56% of Strides for Peace Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 38%.

Strides for Peace Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$544k · 9 repeat orgs$272k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
9

Total granted

$544k
$272k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+88%
+135%

Still filing today

56%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • KO
    KIDS OFF THE BLOCK INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $147k · revenue +63%
  • CP
    CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $60k · revenue +97%
  • PT
    Paving the Way Foundation Inc
    5× · 2019–2024 · $53k · revenue +431% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • RO
    Ring of Hope NFP
    one grant, 2022 · $147k · revenue -7% · 35% of their budget
  • PF
    PEACE FIRST INC
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue -90%
  • BI
    BUILD INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $23k · revenue +795%
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
I&F Incorporated Nfp

The Organization's programs are dedicated to violence prevention and intervention services dedicated to helping young people in the inner city of Chicago to end the gun violence epidemic.

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2
Chicago Youth Boxing Club

Provide at-risk youth with after school/summer programs for training and life skills.

Recreation & Sports
3
Chicago Votes

Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government,…

Civil Rights
4
Thrive Chicago Nfp

Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.

Human Services
5
Generations for Peace Inc

To empower youth to lead and cascade sustainable change in communities experiencing conflict.

Philanthropy
6
Institute for Nonviolence Chicago

The mission of the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago is to end the cycle of violence, build peace and restore justice in Chicago's communities. The institute pursues this mission through Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s principles, teachings…

Crime & Legal
7
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
8
Plant Chicago Nfp

Plant Chicago's mission is to cultivate local circular economies. We envision a paradigm shift in production, consumption, and waste driven at the local level, generating equity and economic opportunity for all residents.

Food & Nutrition
9
Live Free Chicago

Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…

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10
Girls On the Run - Chicago Inc

The organization is a nonprofit after school program that uses the power of running to teach girls, 3rd-8th grade, critical social emotional learning skills.

Recreation & Sports
11
Chicago Youth Programs Inc

Tutoring and mentoring programs for inner city youth.

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12
Unstacked Inc

Committed to combating violence developing our youth and providing services for those released from incarceration and providing advocacy and outreach services to struggling neighborhoods. Unstacked Inc is powered by people who have direct…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Build Inc; the most unlike its peers is Paving the Way Foundation Inc. 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

15 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. 15 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KIDS OFF THE BLOCK INC: $146,550 · Youth DevelopmentKIDS OFF THE BLOCK INCPEACE FIRST INC: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentPEACE FIRST INCGARY COMER YOUTH CENTER INC: $27,850 · Youth DevelopmentGARY COMER YOUTH CENTER INCNew Life Centers of Chicagoland: $20,305 · Youth DevelopmentNew Life Centers of ChicagolandNeighborscapes NFP: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentST SABINA CHURCH: $130,845 · OtherST SABINA CHURCHI Grow Chicago NFP: $30,000 · OtherI Grow Chicago NFPBUILD INC: $22,500 · OtherBUILD INCGREATER BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH: $20,435 · OtherGREATER BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURC…ILLINOIS COUNCIL AGAINST HANDGUN VIOLENCE: $7,500 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherRing of Hope NFP: $146,521 · EducationRing of Hope NFPYouth Guidance: $15,550 · EducationYouth GuidanceCHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Arts & CultureWEST TOWN BIKES NFP: $55,000 · Recreation & SportsPaving the Way Foundation Inc: $52,925 · Human ServicesGREEN ERA EDUCATIONAL NFP: $15,000 · EnvironmentPRIDE ROC: $15,000 · Crime & Legal
Youth Development$239,705Other$216,280Education$162,071Arts & Culture$60,000Recreation & Sports$55,000Human Services$52,925Environment$15,000Crime & Legal$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKIDS OFF THE BLOCK INC: $146,550 over 7y, 15% of budgetRing of Hope NFP: $146,521 over 1y, 35% of budgetCHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetWEST TOWN BIKES NFP: $55,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetPaving the Way Foundation Inc: $52,925 over 5y, 28% of budgetPEACE FIRST INC: $35,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetI Grow Chicago NFP: $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGARY COMER YOUTH CENTER INC: $27,850 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBUILD INC: $22,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNew Life Centers of Chicagoland: $20,305 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Guidance: $15,550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRIDE ROC: $15,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetILLINOIS COUNCIL AGAINST HANDGUN VIOLENCE: $7,500 over 1y, 2.0% 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.

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.

The Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …United Way of Metropo…Leva Family FoundationTides CenterSilicon Valley Commun…Network for GoodAmerican Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
The Chicago Community TrustIL21.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Leva Family Foundation · Tides Center · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Strides for Peace Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Strides for Peace Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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.
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    How do I get to Strides for Peace Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Strides for Peace Inc 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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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