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The Northside Community Bank Charitable 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of THE NORTHSIDE COMMUNITY BANK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING | $3,175 |
| LAKE COUNTY VETERANS AND FAMILY SERVICES | $1,950 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY-LAKE COUNTY | $1,200 |
| A SAFE PLACE | $1,200 |
| COOL MINISTRIES | $1,150 |
| NILES TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY FOUNDATION | $1,150 |
| WEST DEERFIELD TOWNSHIP | $1,150 |
| FREMONT TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY | $1,150 |
| WARREN TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY | $1,150 |
| PADS LAKE COUNTY | $1,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LAKE COUNTY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| HEART OF THE CITY | $950 |
| FRIENDS OF DEERFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY | $650 |
| ROTARY FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (FY17–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
31 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 7 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- TCTHE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC8× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +70%
- BGBoys & Girls Club of Lake County8× · 2017–2024 · $6k · revenue +215%
- PLPADS Lake County Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $6k · revenue +352%
Funded once
- TLTHE LAKE COUNTY HAVENgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +81%
- DBDIAPER BANK PARTNERSHIPone grant, 2020 · $2k
- MHMERCY HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLSone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
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 empower people with disabilities to lead self-directed lives as valued members of the community.
Promote the health and independence of lake county, il, older adults
Family service of lake county provides counseling, education, and support services to strenghten individuals and families in need to succeed in school, at work, in relationships, and within our community.
To maintain economic vitality and quality of life in lake county, illinois by creating and retaining quality jobs, stimulating capital investment, pursuing economic diversity and improving the county's business climate.
To be a voice for business and a forum for the exchange of ideas and through a variety of chamber programs and services, strengthen the economic vitality of east chicago, hammond, and northwest indiana.
The mission of lakeshore is to enhance the ability of persons with mental and physical disabilities to live as independently as possible through acquisition of skills and utilization of services that promote each individual's self…
North suburban legal aid clinic's mission is to provide accessible, quality, equitable, free legal services in the areas of domestic violence, housing, and immigration to give low-income, at-risk community members access to justice and the…
The mission of lad lake, inc. is to guide the growth of at-risk youth so that they reach their potential and live responsibly.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
To expand equitable health care and healthy living in Cook County and champion solutions through funding, education and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Compass Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rockland Family Association. 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 31 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 58 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 CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Lake County ↗
- Who funds PADS Lake County Inc ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COOL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE LAKE COUNTY HAVEN ↗
- Who funds DEERFIELD PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST COMPASS INC ↗
- Who funds Lake County Veterans and Family Services ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HEART OF THE CITY ↗
- Who funds NILES TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds ARDEN SHORE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Lake County Stallions Inc ↗
- Who funds NSSRA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOVE INC OF LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WORDS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds Vitalant Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
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: AbbVie Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · First Bank Chicago Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · The Lake County Community Foundation · Trustmark Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The Gorter Family Foundation · The Grainger Foundation Inc · United Way of Lake County Inc · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities
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 Northside Community Bank 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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