· Private foundation
The Rose & Alice Koffend Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHORE COMMUNITY SERVICES | $20,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $9,000 |
| AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE | $7,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $5,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $3,000 |
| EXCEL BEYOND 211 | $3,000 |
| CLEARBROOK | $3,000 |
| BOULEVARD | $2,500 |
| HARBOUR INC | $2,500 |
| CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS | $2,000 |
| COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY | $1,500 |
| CHICAGO COALITIONHOMELESS | $1,500 |
| ESCCA | $1,500 |
| FTEA | $1,000 |
| MERCY HOME FOR GIRLS AND BOYS | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $251k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
36 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 14 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- SCSHORE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $161k · revenue +28%
- ATAVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE8× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +107%
- CCLEARBROOK8× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- THThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation)graduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +359%
- NCNorthwest Community Hospital Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +219%
- UAUC AT SANTA CRUZone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.
Committed to improving the quality of life for chicago's low-income elderly, housing opportunities and maintenance for the elderly (h.o.m.e.) helps seniors remain independent and part of their community by offering opportunities for…
To provide decent, safe and sanitary housing that is affordable to low and moderate-income persons and to stabilize and strengthen communities by improving the local housing stock. the corporation shall administer programs that revitalize…
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises
To disrupt cycles of poverty with dignified transitional housing that hoslistically connects young men to opportunities that create and sustain personal, professional and relational growth.
We strive to make aging easier through the development of a network of services for older persons designed to optimize the quality of their lives.
Low-income housing.
Ailbe Senior Housing Corporation provides housing and services for the elderly, to meet their physical, social, and psycho-social needs.
Advance the highest quality of home and community-based care.
To provide permanent supportive housing opportunities coupled with innovative support services empowering indivduals to live independently with dignity and to fullfull their utmost potential.
Columbus house serves people experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk by providing life-saving outreach, shelter, and housing and by fostering their personal growth and independence. we advocate for and create affordable housing to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Humble Design Inc. 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 45 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 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. 21 of the 42 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 SHORE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds CLEARBROOK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds THE HARBOUR INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds Elea Institute ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER OF CONCERN ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds The Anti-Cruelty Society ↗
- Who funds ORPHANS OF THE STORM ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds CASA KANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds The Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY HONOR FLIGHT ↗
- Who funds Northwest Community Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds ONCE UPON OUR TIME CAPSULE ↗
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: AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Edward & Wanda Jordan Family Foundation Co Deborah Duvair · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Rose & Alice Koffend 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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