· Private foundation
The Roderick Group Foundation Inc
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $132k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY | $50,000 |
| ST IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREP | $50,000 |
| BREAKING BARRIERS INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| LINK UNLIMITED SCHOLARS | $25,000 |
| AFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $20,000 |
| CONFERENCE OF MINORITY TRANSPORATION | $12,000 |
| CHIARTS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HOPE CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| HORIZONS FOR YOUTH | $10,000 |
| XI LAMBDA EDUCATIONAL FDN INC | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| J E M BASEBALL TRAINNG NFP | $3,000 |
| THE EXCEL 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 (FY24–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 8 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k 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
- KCKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +14%
- LULINK Unlimited Scholars2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +53%
- HCHOPE CHICAGO INC2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- CRCALVIN RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
Chicago Zoological Societygraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +67%
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.
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.
Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.
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,…
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…
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.
Scholarship programs for Chicago's youth.
To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.
To provide a comprehensive, high quality, college preparatory education that results in graduates succeeding in college. The operation of a network of public Charter College Prep High Schools.
The mission of Excel Charitable Foundation is to develop and execute programs that promote development for the youth in the areas of academics, Health, social engagement and civic awareness. Leveraging the resources of our partnerships, we…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Chicago Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breaking Barriers International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 18 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 Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ↗
- Who funds LINK Unlimited Scholars ↗
- Who funds BREAKING BARRIERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds The Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky African American Chamber of Co ↗
- Who funds HOPE CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds Horizons for Youth ↗
- Who funds ChiArts Foundation ↗
- Who funds Xi Lambda Educational Foundati ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Chicago Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds Strengthening Our Community Alliance ↗
- Who funds IS HANKINS-FA JOHNSON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EXCEL FOUNDATION 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: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 organization The Roderick Group Foundation Inc 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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