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· Private foundation
THE ORLEBEKE FOUNDATION
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$115k
Granted FY2024
5
Grants
1
Communities
$61k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of THE ORLEBEKE FOUNDATION’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
2018
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
chicago
2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 5 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
- STEPPENWOLF THEATRE$61,000
- FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO$40,000
- SKYART NFP$6,000
- ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION$5,000
- THE HAPPINESS CLUB$2,500
02The need
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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 (FY17–24, $206k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 8 repeat orgs$155k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +131% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
8
6
Total granted
$2.0M
$146k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+131%
+44%
Still filing today
50%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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
- UIURBAN INITIATIVES4× · 2017–2022 · $165k · revenue +131%
- PNPROSPERITY NOW2× · 2017–2018 · $125k · revenue +14%
- TPTHE PEOPLE'S MUSIC SCHOOL4× · 2018–2022 · $53k · revenue +38%
Funded once
NEW VENTURE FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +85%- CFCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHone grant, 2018 · $25k
- SOSTATE OF IL COVID RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
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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
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Chicago United for Equity
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
Civil Rights
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The Chicago High School for the Arts
The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…
Education
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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
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Social Venture Partners Chicago Inc
Social venture partners chicago accelerates the positive community change championed by innovative non-profits through engaged investing to build their capacity and impact. the breadth, depth and willingness of our partners to engage with…
Philanthropy
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Hyde Park School of Dance
Hyde Park School of Dance provides opportunities for students of all ages to study, perform, and create classical and contemporary dance at the highest levels of discipline and artistry.
Arts & Culture
7
Chicago Votes
Leadership development and non partisan civic education.
Civil Rights
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Chicago Public Art Group
Chicago public art group brings artists and communities together to produce high-quality public art, extending and transforming the tradition of collaborative, community-involved public artwork.
Arts & Culture
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Chicago Children's Museum
Chicago children's museum's mission is to improve children's lives by creating a community where play & learning connect.
Arts & Culture
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ChiArts Foundation
Support and promotion of arts education programs at chicago high school for the arts
Education
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Hyde Park Jazz Festival
Produce annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival and support the arts in Chicago
Arts & Culture
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The Chicago Academy for the Arts
The chicago academy for the arts transforms emerging artists through a curriculum and culture which connect intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and creativity to impart the skills to lead and collaborate across diverse communities.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hyde Park Art Center and the most unlike its peers is New Venture Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$1,683,553Human Services$205,750Community Improvement$125,000Environment$100,000Arts & Culture$65,000Youth Development$2,500
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.
The Chicago Community TrustIL18.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · 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 organisation THE ORLEBEKE 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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: URBAN INITIATIVES.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.3× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 830367521 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 URBAN INITIATIVES, 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
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
- 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 Orlebeke Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Orlebeke Foundation 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.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines