· Private foundation
Sueske W & C Charitable Tr 21580
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED METHODIST HOMES & SERVICES | $15,000 |
| LINCOLN PARK ZOO | $5,000 |
| AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE | $5,000 |
| KENNETH C GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & O | $5,000 |
| LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| SHEDD AQUARIUM | $5,000 |
| MARKLUND PHILIP CENTER | $5,000 |
| PIONEER CENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICES | $5,000 |
| HERO | $3,000 |
| CHICAGO YOUTH CENTERS | $3,000 |
| CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $2,000 |
| THE NIGHT MINISTRY | $1,500 |
| SOUTH CHICAGO PARENTS AND FRIENDS | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $169k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- UMUNITED METHODIST HOMES & SERVICES8× · 2018–2025 · $108k · revenue +230%
- ATAVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE8× · 2018–2025 · $26k · revenue +100%
- HAHoward Area Community Center7× · 2018–2024 · $26k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $2k
- TMTHE MIRACLE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -14%
- SISearch Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +43%
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.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.
Infant welfare society of chicago (iws) (d/b/a iws family health) provides quality medical, dental and behavioral health services for the health, physical and mental development of children and their families in the chicagoland community.
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
To help people with developmental disabilities meet life's challenges and reach their highest potential.
It is the mission of sinnissippi centers, inc. to provide quality, coordinated and responsive behavioral healthcare services to individuals, families and the communities we serve.
Our mission is to strengthen and heal families and individuals from all walks of life through clinical service, education and research.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Youth Centers and the most unlike its peers is North Side Housing and Supportive Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 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. 33 of the 45 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 UNITED METHODIST HOMES & SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds Howard Area Community Center ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Chicago Youth Centers ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds ORCHARD VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds Chicago Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ↗
- Who funds CLEARBROOK ↗
- Who funds OLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Pioneer Center for Human Services ↗
- Who funds La Rabida Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds RAINBOWS FOR ALL CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOUGLAS CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE MIRACLE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Search Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CHICAGO PARENTS & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds DUPAGE SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds University of South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER ↗
- Who funds Providence St Mel School ↗
- Who funds ELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ALIVE CENTER 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: George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · The Coleman Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Goldenberg Max Tw M G Foundation · The a Montgomery Ward Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Rice Foundation · The Service Club of Chicago · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Dr Scholl 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 Sueske W & C Charitable Tr 21580 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.