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The Clare Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| GENYSYS WORKS CHICAGO | $15,000 |
| THE GRAY MATTER EXPERIENCE | $10,000 |
| PROVIDENCE-ST MEL HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| PAT MAC'S PACK | $6,000 |
| MAPLE MORGAN PARK FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| NEST COMMUNITY SHELTER | $5,000 |
| BEVERLY AREA PLANNING ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| MY BLOCK MY HOOD MY CITY | $5,000 |
| WINGS PROGRAM INC | $5,000 |
| 19TH WARD YOUTH AND COMMUNITY | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
The National Public Housing Museum4× · 2018–2021 · $85k · revenue +128%- BABeverly Arts Center of Chicago3× · 2017–2019 · $69k · revenue +28%
- TATHE ANDREW WEISHAR FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $48k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- PSPROVIDENCE ST MEL'S HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $10k
- WEWEST ENGLEWOOD UNITED ORGANIZATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k
- CTCAREER TRANSITIONS CENTER OF CHICAGOone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +13%
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.
The Beverly Area Arts Alliance (The Alliance) cultivates collaboration between artists and community members to foster Beverly/Morgan Park as a diverse hub of culture and creativity on Chicago's far Southside and a vibrant place to live…
The mission of this organization is to create partnerships that produce intellectual and economic wealth in the African-American community.
The mission of the Black Arts & Culture Alliance of Chicago is to collectively advance Black excellence in the work of the Black arts and culture sector.
Beyond Hunger was founded in 1978 to provide direct hunger relief services and harness the power of communities to end hunger through collective impact. During the year, with repeat visits 67,000 individuals were served across all…
Chicago Hope runs a food pantry twice a week that serves over 100 families. The organization is working toward the furtherance of wrap around services.
Borderless magazine nfp is a chicago-based nonprofit news outlet that is reimagining local immigration journalism for a more just and equitable future. we provide free, local and state news coverage to english and spanish speakers.
Neighborhood food pantries is organized exclusively for the charitable purpose of providing food and financial relief for the underprivileged.
Heaven Gallery is a multi-disciplinary healing art space that provides holistic programming to elevate artists and connect Chicago communities. The gallery hosts art exhibitions, artist talks, House Music dance events, and classical…
Better Streets Chicago champions universal mobility by challenging harmful transportation infrastructure and policies.
To provide outreach services and resources
To provide help to the homeless and nearly homeless
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friendship Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pat Mac's Pack Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 28 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 The National Public Housing Museum ↗
- Who funds Beverly Arts Center of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Hales Franciscan High School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ANDREW WEISHAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Beverly Area Planning Association ↗
- Who funds WINGS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds The Port Ministries ↗
- Who funds A NEW DIRECTION BEVERLY MORGAN PARK ↗
- Who funds Pat Mac's Pack Inc ↗
- Who funds Role Model Movement Inc (NFP) ↗
- Who funds BURST INTO BOOKS ↗
- Who funds THE GRAY MATTER EXPERIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CAREER TRANSITIONS CENTER OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP INC ↗
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 · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 The Clare 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.
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