How much did THE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY grant in FY2025?

THE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY reported 44 grants totaling $1,621,985 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is THE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY based?

THE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY is based in IL.

THE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY

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· Public charity

THE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY

THE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY foundation is a nonprofit corporation located in lake county, illinois that was established in 2003 to bring together philanthropists and donors, dollars and ideas to build permanent funds to benefit lake county, illinois - today and for generations to come.

$1.6M

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$231k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of THE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

streetfivenight ministryyouth housingoverprofessionalshomeless

2020

covid responseincreasecovid reliefexpandreducezioncurrently

2021

emergency foodvaccinevulnerable membersschool'smobileparticularlydiaper

2022

rotaryadvancecelexperienceslastingsuccessfill

2023

buildingnfpfindsectionforest preservepreserve districtdistrict preservation

2025

nurturesstrongpathmovementscriminalrecordseligible

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k4 grants · $30k
$10k–50k30 grants · $631k
$50k–250k10 grants · $856k

$26,000

Median grant

States reached

$27M

Total assets

Largest grants

SEDGEBROOK OPCO (SL-VII) LLC$230,829
RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION$140,000
PADS LAKE COUNTY$80,000
LAKE-MCHENRY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$75,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF LAKE$60,500
LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER FOR THE$60,000
READING POWER INC$60,000
ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDRENS$50,000
JOSSELYN$50,000
MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$50,000
RAGDALE FOUNDATION$35,153
WAUKEGAN TO COLLEGE$34,500
NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK$30,000
MOST BLESSED TRINITY$30,000
ZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER$30,000

02The need

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 (FY18–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 12%. 11% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$7.6M · 69 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

69 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.6M

$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%

+74%

Still filing today

87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthAnimalsArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

LC
Lake County Crisis Center for the Prevention & Treatment of Domestic Violen
7× · 2018–2025 · $313k · revenue +158%
PL
Pads Lake County Inc
6× · 2018–2025 · $301k · revenue +78%
NI
Northern Illinois Food Bank
5× · 2018–2025 · $257k · revenue +15%

Funded once

CO
COLLEGE OF LAKE COUNTY FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +74%
FO
Friends of the Highwood Public Librarygraduated
one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +140% · 37% of their budget
FA
Fight2feed A Charitable Organizationgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +378% · 68% of their budget

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.

Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal

Northern Illinois Center for Nonprofit Excellence

Capacity building, training, leadership development, technical assistance and resource support for not for profit organizations.

Community Improvement

Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights

Care Partners of Cook County

Care Partners of Cook County provides support and companionship on the journey of aging and serious illness

Human Services

Legal Aid Chicago

To provide free civil legal services to low-income individuals, families and community groups

Crime & Legal

Local Economic and Employment

North Branch Works is a membership-supported nonprofit neighborhood organization that for more than three decades has promoted balanced, job-creating economic development along the North Branch of the Chicago River.

Employment

Chicago Learning Exchange

The Chicago Learning Exchange (CLX) is a nonprofit organization that connects and supports our city's array of out-of-school time youth-focused organizations in order to prepare youth, youth workers, and our city for the future.

Youth Development

North Shore Health Care Foundation

To expand equitable health care and healthy living in Cook County and champion solutions through funding education and advocacy

Health

Great Lakes Community Action Partnership

Creating partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.

Human Services

Latino Union of Chicago

Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.

Human Services

A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth

Human Services

Greater Chicago Legal Clinic

The Organization provides community based legal services and education to the under-served and disadvantaged in Chicago metropolitan areas.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youthbuild Lake County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Start Early. 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 29 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.8%1/126

the rest of the field

13%

4,651/34,524

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.

05the grantee network

113 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

110/113

Grantees still filing

82/113

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$4,797,057Education$1,717,321Human Services$1,296,826Health$871,539Youth Development$430,500Food & Nutrition$356,500Crime & Legal$322,000

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.

John and Kathleen Schreiber FoundationIL91.7× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation · United Way of Lake County Inc · Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake · Circle of Service Foundation · Give N Kind · Baxter International Foundation · Trustmark Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · AbbVie Foundation · First Bank Chicago Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust

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 organisation THE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely 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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Fight2feed A Charitable Organization.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.8× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 464963962 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Fight2feed A Charitable Organization, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 68% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Lake County Community?

Find your warmest path to The Lake County Community through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

113 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Lake County Community?

More from the funding graph

THE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

113 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Lake County Community?

More from the funding graph