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The Service Club of Chicago

THE SERVICE CLUB OF CHICAGO is a group dedicated to raising funds for other charitable organizations in the chicagoland area.

$516k
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$366kHuman Services$342kYouth Development$287kArts & Culture$269kEducation$225kHousing & Shelter$187kCrime & Legal$74kReligion$70kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $91k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $425k
$11,657
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$40,000
RESTORING THE PATH$39,215
HELPING HAND CENTER$25,000
HOLY TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL$25,000
MARYVILLE ACADEMY$21,358
SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES ILLINOIS$21,193
AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE$20,337
BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE OF ILLINOIS$17,000
CIRCLE URBAN MINISTRIES$16,838
PEOPLE'S MUSIC SCHOOL INC$15,588
A SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION$15,502
A RED ORCHID THEATRE$15,014
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS$14,672
WILLOW HOUSE$13,477
LAWRENCE HALL$13,470
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $390k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME: $16k → 8%SHARING CONNECTIONS INC: $5k → 7%SHARING CONNECTIONS INC: $10k → 7%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $6k → 7%THE EQUESTRIAN CONNECTION: $10k → 8%UMMA-Urban Muslim Minority Alliance: $13k → 8%CARE FOR REAL: $11k → 14%INSPIRATION CORPORATION: $7k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $6k → 14%GATEWAY TO LEARNING SPECIAL EDUCATI: $15k → 14%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $21k → 14%GLENKIRK: $6k → 14%HOUSE OF GOOD SHEPARD CHICAGO: $8k → 14%CENTER ON HALSTED: $1k → 14%The Well of Mercy: $23k → 14%CONCORDIA PLACE: $10k → 14%HELPING HAND CENTER: $25k → 14%TUESDAYS CHILD: $4k → 14%Little Brothers Friends of Elderly: $6k → 14%NEW MOMS INC: $4k → 14%CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO A: $24k → 14%BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $13k → 14%OPTIONS FOR YOUTH: $10k → 14%SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES ILLINOIS: $21k → 14%LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION: $17k → 14%COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES: $7k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $8k → 14%Polish American Association: $2k → 14%CIRCLE URBAN MINISTRIES: $17k → 14%CIRCLE URBAN MINISTRIES: $12k → 14%THE ARK: $11k → 14%COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $10k → 14%COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $6k → 14%Oak Park & River Forest Day Nursery: $3k → 14%Southwest Chicago Homeless Services: $23k → 14%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.

24%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$495k · 20 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
139

Total granted

$495k
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+36%

Still filing today

90%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER
    3× · 2020–2024 · $61k · revenue +96%
  • RT
    RESTORING THE PATH
    2× · 2018–2024 · $42k · revenue +307%
  • HI
    HOPE IGNITES CHICAGO
    3× · 2020–2024 · $41k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • YM
    Young Mens Educational Networkgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $32k · revenue +42%
  • GC
    GARDEN CENTER SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +72%
  • LP
    LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +16%
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 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
2
Child Link Inc

Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…

Human Services
3
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
4
Chicago City Theatre Company dba Joel Hall Dancers & Center

To enrich the lives of our community through dance education and performance while developing Chicago's native talent pool in a welcoming environment that celebrates multiculturalism & ethnic diversity.

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
Chicago Children's Museum

Chicago childrens museum is a place where families and caregivers with infants and children are encouraged to create, explore, and discover together through play. the museum features three vibrant floors of exhibits and activities that…

Arts & Culture
7
Oak Leyden Developmental Services Inc

To help people with developmental disabilities meet life's challenges and reach their highest potential.

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8
Classical Music Chicago

Presenting free high-quality classical music performances and music education experiences in the Chicago metropolitan area for people of all ages and degrees of musical awareness so they can experience how music enriches life.

Arts & Culture
9
Live Free Chicago

Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…

—
10
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation
Human Services
11
Tutoring Chicago

Tutoring chicago delivers the power of education through one-to-one tutoring.

Arts & Culture
12
Illinois Community for Displaced Immigrants

Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Moms Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Silver Lining Foundation Inc. 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

166 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 166 of the 180 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
163/166
Grantees still filing
117/166
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOPE IGNITES CHICAGO: $41,320 · OtherHOLY TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL: $39,960 · OtherCHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $60,998 · OtherCHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERRESTORING THE PATH: $42,490 · Other+72 more: $733,637 · Other+72 moreCIRCLE URBAN MINISTRIES: $29,235 · Human ServicesCIRCLE URBAN MINISTRI…HELPING HAND CENTER: $25,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HAND CENTERTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $23,981 · Human ServicesTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUS…WELL OF MERCY INC: $22,684 · Human ServicesWELL OF MERCY INCSOUTHWEST CHICAGO HOMELESS SERVICES: $22,684 · Human ServicesSOUTHWEST CHICAGO HOM…Maryville Academy: $21,358 · Human ServicesMaryville AcademyONE FAMILY ILLINOIS: $21,193 · Human ServicesONE FAMILY ILLINOISLITTLE CITY FOUNDATION: $17,000 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $16,427 · Human ServicesMARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME: $15,640 · Human ServicesGATEWAY TO LEARNING: $15,019 · Human ServicesSHARING CONNECTIONS INC: $14,941 · Human Services+20 more: $145,078 · Human Services+20 moreThe People's Music School: $28,828 · Arts & CultureThe People's …Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago: $25,375 · Arts & CulturePorchlight Mu…UNITING VOICES: $18,465 · Arts & CultureUNITING VOICE…A Red Orchid Theatre: $17,530 · Arts & CultureA Red Orchid …About Face Theatre Collective Inc: $13,108 · Arts & CultureAbout Face Th…Victory Gardens Theater: $12,768 · Arts & CultureVictory Garde…NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART FKA MEXICAN FINE ARTS CENTER MUSEUM: $12,350 · Arts & CultureFacets Film Forum: $9,955 · Arts & CultureSHARING NOTES: $9,715 · Arts & CultureBeverly Arts Center of Chicago: $9,475 · Arts & CultureLifeline Productions Inc: $7,993 · Arts & Culture+15 more: $72,304 · Arts & Culture+15 moreA JUST HARVEST: $21,204 · HealthA JUST HAR…OUR PLACE OF NEW TRIER TOWNSHIP: $20,734 · HealthOUR PLACE …A SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION: $15,502 · HealthA SAFE HAV…OLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC: $14,557 · HealthOLD IRVING…IMERMAN ANGELS: $12,524 · HealthIMERMAN AN…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $12,341 · HealthSHRINERS H…La Rabida Children's Hospital: $11,617 · HealthLa Rabida …Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center NFP: $11,564 · HealthAbove and …University of Chicago Medical Center: $10,000 · HealthTHE JACKSON CHANCE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthCHICAGO HOUSE & SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $8,584 · HealthRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $8,219 · HealthTHE HOLIDAY HEROES FOUNDATION INC: $7,745 · HealthCANINE THERAPY CORPS INC: $6,614 · Health+6 more: $25,972 · Health+6 moreYoung Mens Educational Network: $31,750 · EducationPRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $22,049 · EducationTHE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $18,562 · EducationCenter for Independence through Conductive Education Inc: $15,961 · EducationLEGAL PREP CHARTER ACADEMIES: $13,267 · EducationCHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY: $12,895 · EducationCHICAGOLAND LUTHERAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $9,999 · EducationCristo Rey St Martin College Prep: $8,070 · EducationELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $6,000 · Education+1 more: $3,795 · EducationMATTHEW HOUSE INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterLINCOLN PARK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $12,987 · Housing & ShelterDEBORAH'S PLACE: $12,450 · Housing & ShelterSAINT AGATHA DREAM BUILDERS ASSOCIATION NFP: $9,584 · Housing & ShelterWINGS PROGRAM INC: $9,572 · Housing & ShelterMAPLEWOOD HOUSING FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED D/B/A FRIEDMAN PLACE: $9,525 · Housing & ShelterTHE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC: $5,253 · Housing & ShelterLA CASA NORTE: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $2,762 · Housing & ShelterUNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS: $21,719 · Youth DevelopmentGARY COMER YOUTH CENTER INC: $19,992 · Youth DevelopmentINTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS MEDIA CENTER: $12,631 · Youth DevelopmentBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentArt In Motion: $11,776 · Youth DevelopmentHorizons for Youth: $6,632 · Youth Development
Other$918,405Human Services$390,240Arts & Culture$237,866Health$197,177Education$152,348Housing & Shelter$87,133Youth Development$85,250

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 budgetCHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $60,998 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRESTORING THE PATH: $42,490 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetHOPE IGNITES CHICAGO: $41,320 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $29,257 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCIRCLE URBAN MINISTRIES: $29,235 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe People's Music School: $28,828 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPorchlight Music Theatre Chicago: $25,375 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHELPING HAND CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGARDEN CENTER SERVICES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $24,993 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $23,981 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWELL OF MERCY INC: $22,684 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetSOUTHWEST CHICAGO HOMELESS SERVICES: $22,684 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetLawrence Hall: $22,470 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS: $22,202 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $22,049 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS: $21,719 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMaryville Academy: $21,358 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA JUST HARVEST: $21,204 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetONE FAMILY ILLINOIS: $21,193 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEnlace Chicago: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMATTHEW HOUSE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGARY COMER YOUTH CENTER INC: $19,992 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $18,562 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITING VOICES: $18,465 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetApparel Industry Board Inc: $17,593 over 3y, 47% of budgetA Red Orchid Theatre: $17,530 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetLITTLE CITY FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $16,427 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Independence through Conductive Education Inc: $15,961 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHICAGO YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $15,792 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME: $15,640 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetA SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION: $15,502 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE OF ART THERAPY INC: $15,169 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetGATEWAY TO LEARNING: $15,019 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSHARING CONNECTIONS INC: $14,941 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRANCISCAN OUTREACH: $14,940 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO: $14,885 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDREAMS FOR KIDS INC: $14,698 over 2y, 33% of budgetOLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC: $14,557 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTapestry 360 Health: $14,040 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEGAL PREP CHARTER ACADEMIES: $13,267 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAbout Face Theatre Collective Inc: $13,108 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY: $12,895 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $12,843 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUMMA: $12,811 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetST JOSEPH SERVICES INC: $12,794 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVictory Gardens Theater: $12,768 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Polk Bros Foundation …United Way of Metropo…The Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …George M Eisenberg Fo…Helen V Brach Foundat…WP & HB White Foundat…Dr Scholl FoundationThe a Montgomery Ward…Fifth Third Chicagola…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Lloyd a Fry Foundation
Polk Bros Foundation IncIL74.3× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Helen V Brach Foundation · WP & HB White Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · The a Montgomery Ward Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Lloyd a Fry 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 Service Club of Chicago funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Service Club of Chicago. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
63report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 180 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 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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