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The Pelino Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Education$634kHuman Services$506kHealth$136kHousing & Shelter$95kYouth Development$95kArts & Culture$55kCrime & Legal$30kEmployment$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$9,530
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MORAINE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$9,530
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $606k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MORNING STAR MISSION: $3k → 7%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATES: $100k → 14%TURNING POINT: $10k → 6%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATES: $100k → 14%TURNING POINT: $10k → 6%TRINITY SERVICES: $5k → 7%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATES: $15k → 14%BEACON PLACE: $10k → 8%HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROJECT: $5k → 7%GLEN ELLYN CHILDRENS RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 7%YOUTH OUTREACH SERVICES: $15k → 14%YOUTH OUTREACH SERVICES: $15k → 14%YOUTH OUTREACH SERVICES: $15k → 14%CRISIS CENTER FOR SOUTH SUBURBIA: $15k → 14%TOGETHER WE COPE: $3k → 14%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $15k → 14%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $10k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES: $10k → 14%THE CHICAGO LITERACY ALLIANCE: $10k → 14%GADS HILL CENTER: $100k → 14%GADS HILL CENTER: $100k → 14%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $15k → 14%HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 14%THE HARBOUR: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 25 repeat orgs$499k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
52

Total granted

$1.2M
$490k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+32%

Still filing today

84%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther

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

  • JP
    JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2020–2024 · $215k · revenue +127%
  • GH
    GADS HILL CENTER
    2× · 2022–2023 · $200k · revenue +11%
  • EI
    Erikson Institute
    2× · 2022–2023 · $200k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • MS
    MERIT SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • SS
    SIT STAY READ INC
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -39%
  • NM
    NAMI METRO-SUBURBAN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +152%

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.

1
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
2
Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for

Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.

Education
3
Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers

Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers, through its Midtown Center for boys and Metro Achievement Center for girls, helps close the achievement gap for Chicago's urban youth ages eight through eighteen.

Education
4
Chicago Youth Centers

To provide high-quality early learning and out-of-school time enrichment in under-resourced neighborhoods to holistically support children of all ages, their families, and their communities.

Youth Development
5
Childrens Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal
6
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
7
Child Link Inc

Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…

Human Services
8
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
9
Lakeside Community Committee

To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.

Human Services
10
Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill

Founded in 1883, brightpoint (formerly known as children's home & aid) is a leading statewide organization supporting families so children can thrive.

Human Services
11
Chicago Votes

Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government,…

Civil Rights
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Children's Advocacy Center and the most unlike its peers is Gateway to the Great Outdoors. 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 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr18%13%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr15%37%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr18%5%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr15%21%35–55yr16%51%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/61
the rest of the field
15%
5,555/36,698

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.

04the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 78 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/61
Grantees still filing
51/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION — $215,000 · Human ServicesJUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATIONGADS HILL CENTER — $200,000 · Human ServicesGADS HILL CENTERYOUTH OUTREACH SERVICES INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH OUTREACH SERVICES INCCHRISTOPHER HOUSE — $40,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTOPHER HOUSE+12 more — $106,000 · Human Services+12 moreErikson Institute — $200,000 · EducationErikson InstituteAlain Locke Charter School — $50,000 · EducationAlain Locke Charter SchoolSIT STAY READ INC — $50,000 · EducationSIT STAY READ INCBOOKS AND BREAKFAST — $22,500 · EducationBOOKS AND BREAKFAST+8 more — $63,030 · Education+8 moreMERIT SCHOOL — $50,000 · OtherMERIT SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient — $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLYTE — $30,000 · OtherLYTECOMMUNITY HEALTH — $25,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY HEALTHPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER — $25,000 · OtherPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTERTHE BASE CHICAGO — $20,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INC — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherREADING POWER INC — $20,000 · OtherCHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $20,000 · OtherGateway to the Great Outdoors — $15,000 · Other+24 more — $169,500 · Other+24 moreREADING IN MOTION — $22,000 · Arts & CultureSNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Arts & CultureTUTORING CHICAGO — $16,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHLIGHT THEATRE INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureBANDWITH MUSIC LTD — $5,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC OF THE BAROQUE — $5,000 · Arts & CultureLA CASA NORTE — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterHome of the Sparrow Inc — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterNAMI METRO-SUBURBAN INC — $15,000 · HealthSaint Anthony Hospital — $15,000 · HealthIMD Guest House Foundation — $10,000 · HealthOLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC — $7,500 · HealthLEMONS OF LOVE INC — $3,000 · HealthThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) — $30,000 · Religion
Human Services$606,000Education$385,530Other$444,500Arts & Culture$78,000Housing & Shelter$55,000Health$50,500Religion$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION — $215,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetGADS HILL CENTER — $200,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetErikson Institute — $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAlain Locke Charter School — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSIT STAY READ INC — $50,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetYOUTH OUTREACH SERVICES INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTOPHER HOUSE — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) — $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLA CASA NORTE — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOOKS AND BREAKFAST — $22,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetREADING IN MOTION — $22,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTurning Point Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREADING POWER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTUTORING CHICAGO — $16,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGateway to the Great Outdoors — $15,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetCrisis Center for South Suburbia — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSaint Anthony Hospital — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN INITIATIVES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO LITERACY ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTEEN PARENT CONNECTION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHIGH JUMP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HARBOUR INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services DuPage — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMD Guest House Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYEMBA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetThe Beacon Place NFP — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHorizons for Youth — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHLIGHT THEATRE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget826CHI INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHoward Area Community Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMORAINE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $9,530 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLeap Learning Systems — $8,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetOLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAdler University — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBANDWITH MUSIC LTD — $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTRINITY SERVICES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLEN ELLYN CHILDRENS RESOURCE CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
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.

George M Eisenberg Fo…The Chicago Community…United Way of Metropo…Andrew and Alice Fisc…Helen V Brach Foundat…AbbVie FoundationPolk Bros Foundation …Northwestern Memorial…The a Montgomery Ward…Visiting Nurse Associ…Circle of Service Fou…Blowitz-Ridgeway Foun…
George M Eisenberg Foundation for CharitiesIL40.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · Helen V Brach Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · The a Montgomery Ward Foundation · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Blowitz-Ridgeway 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 Pelino 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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: 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 78 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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