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The Dupage Community Foundation

Vision - THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION seeks to raise the quality of life throughout dupage county.

$18M
Granted FY2025still arriving
241
Grants FY2025still arriving
24
States reached
$3.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$24MEducation$10MHuman Services$8.1MArts & Culture$5.7MFood & Nutrition$5.6MHousing & Shelter$5.2MReligion$3.2MAnimals$3.1MOther$0
02FY2025 · 241 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 241 grants below total $16,906,683 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $17,682,736 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $776,053 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k37 grants · $261k
  • $10k–50k138 grants · $2.7M
  • $50k–250k58 grants · $6.6M
  • $250k+8 grants · $7.4M
$20,000
Median grant
24
States reached
$162M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SWIFTY FOUNDATION$3,500,500
OUTREACH$1,007,250
THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST$878,362
DUPAGEPADS$568,794
BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC$435,791
METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES DUPAGE$411,000
NORTHEAST DUPAGE FAMILY AND YOUTH SERVICES$325,250
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$253,500
EASTERSEALS DUPAGE & FOX VALLEY$238,500
PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER$201,860
NAMI DUPAGE$183,300
CHICAGO SOUTH SIDE BIRTH CENTER$173,600
MONARCH LANDING$172,563
YOUTH OUTLOOK$170,000
WORLD RELIEF CHICAGOLAND$166,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $12.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RAINBOW CAFE LGBTQ CENTER: $150k → 23%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $157k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $148k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $145k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $93k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $90k → 14%SAMESAME INC: $100k → 17%LITTLE FRIENDS INC: $162k → 7%SAMESAME INC: $100k → 17%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $78k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $77k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $71k → 14%CHICAGO VOLUNTEER DOULAS: $155k → 14%SOKANA COLLECTIVE WORLDWIDE: $154k → 14%CHICAGO VOLUNTEER DOULAS: $150k → 14%SOKANA COLLECTIVE WORLDWIDE: $152k → 14%NORTHEAST DUPAGE FAMILY AND YOUTH SERVICES: $389k → 7%NORTHEAST DUPAGE FAMILY AND YOUTH SERVICES: $384k → 7%YOUTH SERVICES OF GLENVIEWNORTHBROOK: $100k → 14%NORTHEAST DUPAGE FAMILY AND YOUTH SERVICES: $325k → 7%YOUTH SERVICES OF GLENVIEWNORTHBROOK: $100k → 14%Outreach Community Ministries: $352k → 7%EVERYMOM: $250k → 14%EVERYMOM: $100k → 14%NAMI DUPAGE: $183k → 7%MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS: $130k → 7%NAMI DUPAGE: $88k → 7%FAMILY SHELTER SERVICE: $70k → 7%DUPAGE SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $91k → 7%DuPage Federation on Human Services Reform: $80k → 7%NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PANTRIES: $130k → 7%OUTREACH: $1.0M → 7%OUTREACH: $146k → 7%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $140k → 7%OUTREACH: $116k → 7%HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROJECT: $83k → 7%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $71k → 7%GLEN ELLYN CHILDREN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $112k → 7%GLEN ELLYN CHILDREN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $92k → 7%GLEN ELLYN CHILDREN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $70k → 7%THE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $200k → 7%THE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $125k → 7%LOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $128k → 7%LOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $127k → 7%LOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $114k → 7%LOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $95k → 7%LOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $80k → 7%LOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $75k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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MA
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CA
CO
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$71M · 337 repeat orgs$4.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

337 repeat relationships — 190 still active in FY2025, 147 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

337
150

Total granted

$71M
$4.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+23%

Still filing today

77%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $884k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureInternationalAnimalsOther

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

  • SF
    Swifty Foundation
    7× · 2019–2025 · $8.1M · revenue +186% · 54% of their budget
  • PR
    PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +70%
  • OC
    OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • TP
    TURNING POINT USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +107%
  • BS
    Big Shoulders Fundgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $338k · revenue +67%
  • CH
    CHICAGO HOUSE & SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $292k · revenue +157%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
2
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…

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3
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
4
Arise Chicago

Arise chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes.

Employment
5
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

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…

Health
6
Infant Welfare Society of Chicago

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.

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7
Legal Aid Chicago

At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…

Crime & Legal
8
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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9
Community Health Partnership of Illinois

Strive to improve the health and well being of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and other medically vulnerable populations by providing quality accessable, affordable, and culturally responsive health care within the community we serve.

Health
10
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
11
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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12
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Everthrive Illinois and the most unlike its peers is Your Childrens Bookshelf. 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 34 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr13%6%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr15%26%20–35yr14%25%35–55yr22%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%2%<5yr13%14%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr15%20%20–35yr14%31%35–55yr22%23%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%5/544
the rest of the field
12%
8,887/71,815

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.

04the grantee network

431 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. 431 of the 544 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.

25
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
110
Early backer (in before they grew)
419/431
Grantees still filing
300/431
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER — $2,238,104 · OtherPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTERMetropolitan Family Services DuPage — $1,479,059 · Other+107 more — $25,661,871 · Other+107 moreOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES — $1,914,950 · Human ServicesOUTREACH COMMUNITY …NORTHEAST DUPAGE FAMILY AND YOUTH SERVICES INC — $1,263,250 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST DUPAGE FA…YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $913,100 · Human ServicesYWCA METROPOLITAN C…LOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES — $745,254 · Human ServicesLOAVES & FISHES COM…NAMI OF DUPAGE COUNTY ILLINOIS — $581,261 · Human ServicesRiverwoods Christian Center dba Fox Valley Christian Action — $458,420 · Human ServicesChicago Volunteer Doulas Inc — $455,400 · Human ServicesTHE COMMUNITY HOUSE — $443,100 · Human ServicesGLEN ELLYN CHILDRENS RESOURCE CENTER — $425,400 · Human Services+24 more — $4,844,684 · Human Services+24 moreSwifty Foundation — $8,055,100 · PhilanthropySwifty FoundationDonors Trust Inc — $1,244,000 · PhilanthropyDonors Trust IncThe Chicago Community Trust — $878,362 · PhilanthropyThe Chicago Commu…+4 more — $646,092 · Philanthropy+4 moreEducare of West DuPage — $1,037,500 · EducationEducare of…Wheaton College — $872,670 · EducationWheaton Co…COLLEGE OF DUPAGE FOUNDATION — $672,544 · EducationCOLLEGE OF…GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $635,000 · EducationGEORGE MAS…Gyrls In The HOOD Foundation — $623,400 · EducationGyrls In T…KIDSMATTER FOUNDATION INC — $474,750 · EducationKIDSMATTER…Big Shoulders Fund — $337,933 · EducationFUTURE FOUNDERS FOUNDATION — $318,000 · EducationLiteracy DuPage — $221,500 · Education+10 more — $1,306,287 · Education+10 moreSamaritan Interfaith Counseling Center — $738,704 · HealthEASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY REGION — $615,179 · HealthDUPAGE HEALTH COALITION — $557,000 · HealthHEALTHCARE ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS INC — $518,250 · HealthRepro TLC — $503,600 · HealthChicago South Side Birth Center — $323,600 · HealthACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK — $310,000 · HealthCHICAGO HOUSE & SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY — $292,219 · HealthCENTRO SANAR — $200,000 · Health+10 more — $1,216,405 · HealthChicago Symphony Orchestra — $1,780,000 · Arts & CultureWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC — $1,006,500 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO SINFONIETTA INC — $500,483 · Arts & CultureELGIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $289,000 · Arts & CultureELMHURST ART MUSEUM — $270,809 · Arts & CultureDUPAGE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $191,800 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $229,625 · Arts & CultureBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC — $1,622,616 · Housing & ShelterDUPAGE PADS INC — $1,244,535 · Housing & ShelterDuPage Homeownership Center Inc dba HOME DuPage Inc — $260,500 · Housing & ShelterSenior Home Sharing — $231,300 · Housing & ShelterMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT — $149,643 · Housing & Shelter
Other$29,379,034Human Services$12,044,819Philanthropy$10,823,554Education$6,499,584Health$5,274,957Arts & Culture$4,268,217Housing & Shelter$3,508,594

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSwifty Foundation — $8,055,100 over 7y, 54% of budgetPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER — $2,238,104 over 9y, 6.7% of budgetOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES — $1,914,950 over 9y, 8.8% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra — $1,780,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC — $1,622,616 over 9y, 7.4% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services DuPage — $1,479,059 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetNORTHEAST DUPAGE FAMILY AND YOUTH SERVICES INC — $1,263,250 over 8y, 21% of budgetDUPAGE PADS INC — $1,244,535 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetDonors Trust Inc — $1,244,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEducare of West DuPage — $1,037,500 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC — $1,006,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetYWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $913,100 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS — $894,395 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWheaton College — $872,670 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTEEN PARENT CONNECTION INC — $826,703 over 9y, 13% of budgetCHICAGO ABORTION FUND — $808,400 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $790,416 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF JOLIET — $784,115 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES — $745,254 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetSamaritan Interfaith Counseling Center — $738,704 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF DUPAGE FOUNDATION — $672,544 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $635,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetGyrls In The HOOD Foundation — $623,400 over 3y, 68% of budgetEASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY REGION — $615,179 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetYOUTH OUTLOOK — $595,000 over 9y, 29% of budgetTRI-TOWN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $589,690 over 5y, 11% of budgetNAMI OF DUPAGE COUNTY ILLINOIS — $581,261 over 9y, 10% of budgetDUPAGE HEALTH COALITION — $557,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetHEALTHCARE ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS INC — $518,250 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetRepro TLC — $503,600 over 2y, 17% of budgetCHICAGO SINFONIETTA INC — $500,483 over 9y, 6.9% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTRUTH IN ACCOUNTING — $493,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetANIMALS DESERVING OF PROPER TREATMENT — $490,250 over 6y, 12% of budgetKIDSMATTER FOUNDATION INC — $474,750 over 8y, 20% of budgetRiverwoods Christian Center dba Fox Valley Christian Action — $458,420 over 9y, 5.3% of budgetAPIARY FOR PRACTICAL SUPPORT INC — $458,400 over 3y, 18% of budgetChicago Volunteer Doulas Inc — $455,400 over 3y, 44% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY HOUSE — $443,100 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetGLEN ELLYN CHILDRENS RESOURCE CENTER — $425,400 over 9y, 15% of budgetRAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES — $419,126 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC — $417,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHWESTERN DUPAGE COUNTY — $413,246 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN — $409,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetAtlas Economic Research Foundation — $401,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetEVERYMOM NFP — $400,000 over 3y, 73% of budgetWEST SUBURBAN COMMUNITY PANTRY INC — $399,310 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetONE WAY MINISTRIES — $392,241 over 9y, 3.5% of budget
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 Swifty Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Family Services DuPage ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST DUPAGE FAMILY AND YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds DUPAGE PADS INC ↗
  • Who funds Donors Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds Educare of West DuPage ↗
  • Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
  • Who funds The Chicago Community Trust ↗
  • Who funds Wheaton College ↗
  • Who funds TEEN PARENT CONNECTION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO ABORTION FUND ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF JOLIET ↗
  • Who funds LOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Samaritan Interfaith Counseling Center ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF DUPAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Gyrls In The HOOD Foundation ↗
  • Who funds EASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY REGION ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH OUTLOOK ↗
  • Who funds TRI-TOWN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NAMI OF DUPAGE COUNTY ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds DUPAGE HEALTH COALITION ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHCARE ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS INC ↗
  • Who funds Repro TLC ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO SINFONIETTA INC ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUTH IN ACCOUNTING ↗
  • Who funds ANIMALS DESERVING OF PROPER TREATMENT ↗
  • Who funds KIDSMATTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Riverwoods Christian Center dba Fox Valley Christian Action ↗
  • Who funds APIARY FOR PRACTICAL SUPPORT INC ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Volunteer Doulas 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.

The Bersted FoundationUnited Way of Metropo…Community Memorial Fo…Naperville Rotary Cha…Northwestern Memorial…Community Foundation …Northern Illinois Foo…Topfer Family Foundat…Best Walter & Edith F…George M Eisenberg Fo…Ft Cares FoundationThe Coleman Foundatio…
The Bersted FoundationTX84.4× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bersted Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Community Memorial Foundation · Naperville Rotary Charities Inc · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Topfer Family Foundation · Best Walter & Edith Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Ft Cares Foundation · The Coleman Foundation Inc

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 Dupage Community 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
68report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Dupage Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Dupage Community 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 544 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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