· Community foundation
The Lake County Community Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 44 grants below total $1,517,124 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,621,985 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $104,861 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 $10k4 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $631k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $856k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| READING POWER INC | $60,000 |
| LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER FOR THE | $60,000 |
| JOSSELYN | $50,000 |
| ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDRENS | $50,000 |
| MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER | $50,000 |
| RAGDALE FOUNDATION | $35,153 |
| WAUKEGAN TO COLLEGE | $34,500 |
| NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC | $30,000 |
| EQUAL HOPE | $30,000 |
| CASA LAKE COUNTY INC | $30,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +36% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k 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
- PLPADS Lake County Inc7× · 2018–2025 · $361k · revenue +285%
- LCLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER8× · 2018–2025 · $358k · revenue +236%
RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION3× · 2023–2025 · $310k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- COCollege of Lake County Foundationone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +17%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE HIGHWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -28% · 37% of their budget
- TMTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +45%
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.
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
To support not for profit organizations in innovation, excellence and leadership in their communities.
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To expand equitable health care and healthy living in Cook County and champion solutions through funding, education and advocacy.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Lake County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Roberti Community House. 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 27 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
118 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. 118 of the 130 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 College of Lake County Foundation ↗
- Who funds PADS Lake County Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Roberti Community House ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds KEEPING FAMILIES COVERED ↗
- Who funds READING POWER INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP ↗
- Who funds NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Lake County ↗
- Who funds NICASA NFP ↗
- Who funds CASA LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CURT'S CAFE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGHWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING ↗
- Who funds Chicago Workers' Collaborative NFP ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY PRAIRIE NFP ↗
- Who funds Equal Hope ↗
- Who funds ANTIOCH AREA HEALTHCARE ACCESSIBILITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science ↗
- Who funds Waukegan To College NFP ↗
- Who funds ELDERCARE LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Legacy Reentry Foundation NFP ↗
- Who funds FARMWORKER AND LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORM CAPITAL ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds FIGHT2FEED A CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WILLOW HOUSE ↗
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: John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · United Way of Lake County Inc · Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County · Circle of Service Foundation · Trustmark Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · Give N Kind · First Bank Chicago Foundation · The Gorter Family Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · AbbVie Foundation · Harold M & Adeline S Morrison Family 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 Lake County 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.
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
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.