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The Cheryl Rabine Foundation

The rabine group foundation was formed to develop ongoing fundraising capabilities and utilize funds for scholarship or grants to other charitable organizations.

$70k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$186kHealth$81kHousing & Shelter$26kCommunity Improvement$20kRecreation & Sports$19kReligion$18kCrime & Legal$14kPhilanthropy$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $25,750, the rows itemized in this filing. The $70,112 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $44,362 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VETERANS BUSINESS PROJECT INC$20,000
UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO$5,750
02The need
03

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 (FY17–23, $201k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OPERATION HEALING FORCES: $10k → 13%KISSES FROM KEEGAN & FRIENDS: $12k → 10%The Home Depot Foundation: $37k → 8%The Home Depot Foundation: $25k → 8%Illinois Joining Forces Foundation: $7k → 14%The Home Depot Foundation: $21k → 8%The Home Depot Foundation: $17k → 8%The Home Depot Foundation: $16k → 8%REFUGE FOR WOMEN: $19k → 6%THE HOME DEPOT FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%Options and Advocacy: $13k → 6%The Home Depot Foundation: $9k → 8%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$227k · 5 repeat orgs$159k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$227k
$133k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+48%

Still filing today

80%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
Human ServicesHealthPublic BenefitPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • TI
    THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund
    7× · 2017–2023 · $140k · revenue +39%
  • GP
    GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $39k · revenue +23%
  • GM
    GIVE ME A CHANCE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $19k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • SM
    SAINT MARY PARISH & SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • RF
    REFUGE FOR WOMEN EMERG HOUSING LLCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $19k · revenue +48%
  • LR
    LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue +136%
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
Veterans Foundation of Illinois Inc

To promote and fund veteran programs supporting veteran service organizations.

Human Services
2
Chicago Veterans

Empowering military veterans to take control of their transitions throughout life.

Health
3
The Veterans Exchange

Employment support and exchange for veterans

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4
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois (RMHCCI) provides programs to support the well-being of children and provides a home away from home for families with children receiving medical care.

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5
Midwest Shelter for Homeless Veterans Inc

To provide veterans and their families with housing and supportive services that lead to self-sufficiency and to ensure that no veteran is left behind due to homelessness, joblessness, poverty, and/or mental health issues.

Human Services
6
Madonna House

To provide assistance to homeless mothers and their children.

—
7
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health
8
Milwaukee Homeless Veterans Initiative Inc

To enable homeless and at-risk veterans to reach and maintain their highest level of independence.

Public Benefit
9
Children's Home Foundation

The mission of the children's home is to help the kids and families who need it the most.

Human Services
10
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Madison Inc

Ronald mcdonald house charities of madison (rmhc-madison) creates, finds, and supports programs that directly improve the health and well-being of children and their families.

Health
11
Options for Housing Inc

Operation of programs to provide individuals with assistance in preventing homelessness.

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12
Illinois Peo Home Fund Inc

To provide financial assistance toward housing for senior women in need.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Joining Forces Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Give Me a Chance Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the 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 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund: $139,801 · Human ServicesTHDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer FundREFUGE FOR WOMEN EMERG HOUSING LLC: $19,340 · Human ServicesREFUGE FOR WOMEN EMERG HOUSING LLCILLINOIS JOINING FORCES FOUNDATION: $17,000 · Human ServicesILLINOIS JOINING FORCES FOUNDATIONOptions and Advocacy for Mchenry County Inc: $13,000 · Human ServicesOptions and Advocacy for Mchenry County IncKISSES FROM FRIENDS INC: $11,949 · Human ServicesKISSES FROM FRIENDS INCOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesGIGI'S PLAYHOUSE INC: $38,500 · HealthGIGI'S PLAYHOUSE…LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $18,005 · HealthLEUKEMIA RESEARC…SAINT MARY PARISH & SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherSAINT MARY PA…GOLDIE'S PLACE: $12,750 · OtherGOLDIE'S PLAC…St Paul Lutheran Church: $8,000 · OtherSt Paul Luthe…BUNKER HILL CHARITIES: $5,800 · OtherBUNKER HILL C…VETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT INC: $20,000 · Public BenefitGIVE ME A CHANCE FOUNDATION: $18,500 · Recreation & SportsCASA OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC: $13,800 · Crime & LegalHome of the Sparrow Inc: $13,500 · Housing & ShelterUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $5,750 · Philanthropy
Human Services$211,090Health$56,505Other$46,550Public Benefit$20,000Recreation & Sports$18,500Crime & Legal$13,800Housing & Shelter$13,500Philanthropy$5,750

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund: $139,801 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGIGI'S PLAYHOUSE INC: $38,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetREFUGE FOR WOMEN EMERG HOUSING LLC: $19,340 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGIVE ME A CHANCE FOUNDATION: $18,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetLEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $18,005 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetILLINOIS JOINING FORCES FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCASA OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC: $13,800 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHome of the Sparrow Inc: $13,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOptions and Advocacy for Mchenry County Inc: $13,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGOLDIE'S PLACE: $12,750 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBUNKER HILL CHARITIES: $5,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $5,750 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Aptargroup Charitable…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Aptargroup Charitable FoundationIL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aptargroup Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Cheryl Rabine Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cheryl Rabine Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Cheryl Rabine Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Cheryl Rabine Foundation 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 17 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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