How much did THE PELINO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Human Services$378kEducation$376kArts & Culture$73kHealth$41kHousing & Shelter$40kReligion$30kCrime & Legal$30kYouth Development$30kFood & Nutrition$19kOther$624k

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

activitiesemotionallearningincreasemeetadditionallast

2020

food bankchildrensprogrammingemergencyafterhomelessnessconnect

2021

housinginstructionstudentgradeschildrensclinicreading together

2022

healthyhealth

2023

healthy

2024

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

03FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$100,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATES$100,000
MERIT SCHOOL$50,000

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 (FY19–23, $378k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 9%. 91% 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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.1M · 24 repeat orgs$515k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$465k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+56%

Still filing today

75%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther

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

GH
GADS HILL CENTER
2× · 2022–2023 · $200k · revenue +111%
EI
ERIKSON INSTITUTE
2× · 2022–2023 · $200k · revenue +55%
AL
ALAIN LOCKE CHARTER SCHOOL
2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +9%

Funded once

SS
SIT STAY READ
one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -21%
LC
LS CASA NORTE
one grant, 2020 · $15k
CC
CRISIS CENTER FOR SOUTH SUBURBIAgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +96%

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.

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

Cunningham Childrens Home of Urbana Il

Provide therapeutic services to youth in educational, community, & residential care settings.

Human Services

Chicago United for Equity

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

Civil Rights

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

Childrens Advocacy Center of

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal

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

Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers

Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers guides low-income urban youth in Chicago along pathways of success. Our proven enrichment programs embrace the dignity of the person by focusing on academic excellence, virtue development, individual…

Education

Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill

We advance the well-being of children by investing in families to disrupt the systemic and multi-generational cycle of racial, social, and economic inequity.

Human Services

Giant Steps Illinois Inc

Giant Steps Illinois, Inc. provides services to individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Education

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

Catalyst for Educational Change

Catalyst for educational change (cec) is a nonprofit consulting agency that works with adult leaders in solving complex problems in educational systems. cec uses continuous improvement practices and deep collaboration to help educational…

Education

Aspire of Illinois

Aspire's mission is to support the successes of people with developmental disabilities, strengthen their families and build embracing communities.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teen Parent Connection Inc and the most unlike its peers is Erikson Institute. 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 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/51

the rest of the field

13%

4,794/36,708

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

51 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)

50/51

Grantees still filing

44/51

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$702,500Human Services$378,000Education$376,000Arts & Culture$73,000Health$40,500Housing & Shelter$40,000Religion$30,000

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.

United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL44.9× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · George M Eisenberg Foundation · The a Montgomery Ward Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Robert R McCormick Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur · AbbVie Foundation · Helen V Brach 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 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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: SIT STAY READ.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 200151074 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 SIT STAY READ, 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

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 7% 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 Pelino Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Pelino Charitable 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.

THE PELINO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

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

51 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Pelino Charitable Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE PELINO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

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

51 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Pelino Charitable Foundation?

More from the funding graph