How much does The Springboard Foundation give?

The Springboard Foundation reported 12 itemized grants totaling $355,879, out of $418,345 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2020.

What does The Springboard Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2020, its largest causes are Philanthropy (36%), Arts & Culture (28%), Youth Development (17%).

Who are The Springboard Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2020: Chicago Community Foundation ($404k), Forward Momentum Chicago ($49k), The Simple Good ($48k).

Does The Springboard Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2020, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Springboard Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, The Seabury Foundation, Field Foundation of Illinois.

Where is The Springboard Foundation based?

The Springboard Foundation is based in IL.

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Illinois · Public charity

The Springboard Foundation

The mission of the Springboard Foundation is to provide financial and intellectual capital to selected "grass roots" charitable programs that otherwise would have difficulty obtaining financial support. Springboard's primary focus is afterschool and supplemental education programs. Since inception, Springboard has helped numerous…

$418k
Granted FY2020: 12
Itemized grants FY2020: 12
Organizations funded FY2020: 0%
First-time grantees FY2020

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Itemized, FY2020: $356k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020: $7,500
Largest grant, FY2020: $274,435
Organizations funded a year: 12 to 27; FY2018 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020: 1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 0% of the organizations The Springboard Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2020	12	$356k	0%
FY2019	25	$487k	16%
FY2018	27	$366k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2020.

Philanthropy$430kArts & Culture$334kYouth Development$207kEducation$86kHuman Services$62kHealth$36kPublic Benefit$29kEnvironment$16kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Chicago Community Foundation	$404,435	2	n/a
Forward Momentum Chicago	$48,500	2	3%
The Simple Good	$48,278	3	15%
River City Community Development Center	$48,136	3	6%
West Point Fellowship Inc Dba West Point School of Music	$45,250	3	14%
Music in Urban Schools Inspiring Change	$43,500	3	12%
Mariachi Heritage Foundation	$42,500	3	4%
Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)	$36,250	3	2%
Students Run Chicago	$35,860	3	n/a
Dream on Education	$35,000	2	n/a

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All grantees of The Springboard Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Chicago Community Foundation	$404,435	2	n/a
Forward Momentum Chicago	$48,500	2	3%
The Simple Good	$48,278	3	15%
River City Community Development Center	$48,136	3	6%
West Point Fellowship Inc Dba West Point School of Music	$45,250	3	14%
Music in Urban Schools Inspiring Change	$43,500	3	12%
Mariachi Heritage Foundation	$42,500	3	4%
Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)	$36,250	3	2%
Students Run Chicago	$35,860	3	n/a
Dream on Education	$35,000	2	n/a
Lost Boyzinc	$32,500	2	n/a
Chicago Lawndale Amachi Mentoring Program	$32,500	2	n/a
City Incite Inc	$29,528	2	6%
Chicago Metamorphosis Orchestra Project Nfp	$29,295	3	n/a
Debate It Forward	$28,750	3	n/a
Math Circles of Chicago	$28,500	2	n/a
Territory NFP	$26,006	3	13%
Pitch In	$25,250	2	1%
Shift Englewood Youth Orchestra	$22,500	2	n/a
The Poetry Center	$22,065	2	13%
Girlforward	$20,000	1	n/a
Red Clay Dance Company Inc	$18,500	2	4%
Nehemiah Group dba Chicago Eco House	$16,486	2	9%
Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for	$15,805	1	3%
The Musical Arts Institute	$15,000	1	n/a
Madonna Mission	$15,000	1	7%
Chicago Industrial Arts and Design Center Nfp	$13,100	2	2%
The Bloc	$8,000	1	n/a
Inspire Girls Academy	$7,843	1	19%
Diasporal Discoveries	$7,500	1	n/a
Pretty Inc	$7,000	1	n/a

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Springboard Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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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 Chicago Community TrustIL42.2× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · The Seabury Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · A Better Chicago · The Albert Pick Jr Fund · The Spencer Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · AbbVie 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.

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About The Springboard Foundation

How much does The Springboard Foundation give?: The Springboard Foundation reported 12 itemized grants totaling $355,879, out of $418,345 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2020.
What does The Springboard Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2020, its largest causes are Philanthropy (36%), Arts & Culture (28%), Youth Development (17%).
Who are The Springboard Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2020: Chicago Community Foundation ($404k), Forward Momentum Chicago ($49k), The Simple Good ($48k).
Does The Springboard Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2020, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Springboard Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, The Seabury Foundation, Field Foundation of Illinois.
Where is The Springboard Foundation based?: The Springboard Foundation is based in IL.