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The Cheryl Rabine Foundation
The rabine group foundation was formed to develop ongoing fundraising capabilities and utilize funds for scholarship or grants to other charitable organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $25,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $70,112 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $44,362 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VETERANS BUSINESS PROJECT INC | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $5,750 |
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 (FY17–23, $201k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% 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.
5 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- TITHDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund7× · 2017–2023 · $140k · revenue +39%
- GPGIGI'S PLAYHOUSE INC2× · 2022–2023 · $39k · revenue +23%
- GMGIVE ME A CHANCE FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2020 · $19k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- SMSAINT MARY PARISH & SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $20k
- RFREFUGE FOR WOMEN EMERG HOUSING LLCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $19k · revenue +48%
- LRLEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue +136%
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 promote and fund veteran programs supporting veteran service organizations.
Empowering military veterans to take control of their transitions throughout life.
Employment support and exchange for veterans
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois (RMHCCI) provides programs to support the well-being of children and provides a home away from home for families with children receiving medical care.
To provide veterans and their families with housing and supportive services that lead to self-sufficiency and to ensure that no veteran is left behind due to homelessness, joblessness, poverty, and/or mental health issues.
To provide assistance to homeless mothers and their children.
The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
To enable homeless and at-risk veterans to reach and maintain their highest level of independence.
The mission of the children's home is to help the kids and families who need it the most.
Ronald mcdonald house charities of madison (rmhc-madison) creates, finds, and supports programs that directly improve the health and well-being of children and their families.
Operation of programs to provide individuals with assistance in preventing homelessness.
To provide financial assistance toward housing for senior women in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Joining Forces Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Give Me a Chance Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 17 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 THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund ↗
- Who funds GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds VETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGE FOR WOMEN EMERG HOUSING LLC ↗
- Who funds GIVE ME A CHANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS JOINING FORCES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Home of the Sparrow Inc ↗
- Who funds Options and Advocacy for Mchenry County Inc ↗
- Who funds GOLDIE'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds KISSES FROM FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HEALING FORCES INC ↗
- Who funds BUNKER HILL CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
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: Aptargroup Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 organization The Cheryl Rabine 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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