· Private foundation
The Hope and Grace Charitable Foundation
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 FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAL'S ALL-STAR ANGEL FOUNDATION INC | $16,000 |
| RADICAL LOVE | $12,500 |
| BIG HEARTS OF FOX VALLEY NFP | $12,000 |
| OUR CHILDREN'S HOMESTEAD | $11,862 |
| RISING LIGHTS PROJECT | $6,000 |
| FOX VALLEY SPECIAL RECREATION FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| NEXT GENERATION PLAYGROUND | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| CASA KANE COUNTY | $2,000 |
| LAZARUS HOUSE | $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 (FY24–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 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.
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 trained volunteers of CASA of South Central Illinois will work with legal and child welfare professionals, educators, and service providers to advocate for the best interests of children that have experienced abuse and/or neglect that…
CASA of Cook County's vision is to protect abused and neglected children by providing them in court, a safe and permanent home, and an opportunity to grow, learn and thrive.
To recruit, train, supervise and support volunteers who advocate for the best interest (reduction of physical, emotional, intellectual and social injuries) for abused and neglected children in the court system.
To provide, promote and support quality volunteer advocacy for children, helping to endure a safe, permanent, and nurturing home for each child as quickly as possible.
Casa is a program to advocate for abused and neglected children in the legal and foster system.
To advocate for abused and neglected children in the legal welfare system.
The mission of calvary home for children is to provide help, hope, and home to abused and neglected children in upstate south carolina.
Provide legal services for children in area.
The trained volunteers of CASA of Effingham County work alongside legal and child welfare professionals, educators, and service providers to advocate for the best interests of children who have experienced abuse and/or neglect. These…
To promote and support professionally trained Court Appointed Special Advocates for abused and neglected children in need of safety, stability, and permanency, brought to the attention of the Juvenile Courts, giving them the opportunity to…
The organization supports and promotes court appointed volunteer advocacy for abused and neglected children so they can thrive in safe permanent homes.
Casa is committed to speaking in the best interest of children, who are at risk for abuse and neglect. casa recruits, trains, & supports volunteers to serve at-risk children in the family court system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lazarus House and the most unlike its peers is Big Hearts of Fox Valley Nfp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 11 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.
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: Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · The Michael Phelps Foundation · Nkc Family Foundation · 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 Hope and Grace Charitable 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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