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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.

$236k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Science & Tech$200kEducation$131kCommunity Improvement$35kPhilanthropy$25kInternational$25kYouth Development$15kCivil Rights$12kAnimals$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $132k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREP$50,000
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY$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
CHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE$10,000
CHIARTS FOUNDATION$10,000
HORIZONS FOR YOUTH$10,000
XI LAMBDA EDUCATIONAL FDN INC$10,000
HOPE CHICAGO$10,000
J E M BASEBALL TRAINNG NFP$3,000
THE EXCEL FOUNDATION$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BREAKING BARRIERS INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$288k · 5 repeat orgs$193k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$288k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+55%

Still filing today

80%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureAnimalsCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • KC
    Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +14%
  • LU
    LINK Unlimited Scholars
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +53%
  • HF
    Horizons for Youth
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • CR
    CALVIN RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • Chicago Zoological Societygraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +67%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Chicago United for Equity

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

Civil Rights
2
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
3
Chicago Humanities Festival

To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
Chicago Aldermanic Black Caucus Foundation

Scholarship programs for Chicago's youth.

Youth Development
9
Chicago United

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.

Philanthropy
10
Urban Prep Academies

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.

Education
11
The Chicago Innovation Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Excel Chartiable Foundation

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Chicago Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $200,000 · Arts & CultureKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industr…ST IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREP: $50,000 · OtherST IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREPCALVIN RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · OtherCALVIN RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INCThe Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky African American Chamber of Co: $20,000 · OtherThe Greater Cincinnati and Northern…HOPE CHICAGO INC: $15,000 · OtherHOPE CHICAGO INCCONFERENCE OF MINORITY TRANSPORATION: $12,000 · OtherCONFERENCE OF MINORITY TRANSPORATIO…Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientXi Lambda Educational Foundati: $10,000 · OtherXi Lambda Educational FoundatiJ E M BASEBALL TRAINING NFP: $8,000 · OtherLINK Unlimited Scholars: $50,000 · EducationLINK Unlimited…ChiArts Foundation: $10,000 · EducationChiArts Founda…+1 more: $500 · EducationBREAKING BARRIERS INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 · Human ServicesHorizons for Youth: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentIS HANKINS-FA JOHNSON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentChicago Zoological Society: $10,000 · AnimalsCHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE: $10,000 · EmploymentStrengthening Our Community Alliance: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$200,000Other$150,000Education$60,500Human Services$25,000Youth Development$20,000Animals$10,000Employment$10,000Community Improvement$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLINK Unlimited Scholars: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBREAKING BARRIERS INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetHorizons for Youth: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE CHICAGO INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Zoological Society: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChiArts Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetXi Lambda Educational Foundati: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetIS HANKINS-FA JOHNSON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetEXCEL FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Ayco Charitable F…The Chicago Community…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY11.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Roderick Group Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Roderick Group Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to The Roderick Group Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Roderick Group Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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