· Private foundation
The Ten Talents Foundation Ltd
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 $10k12 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METRO SQUASH | $15,000 |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS | $8,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHICAGO | $6,000 |
| CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SW MICHIGAN | $5,000 |
| MATH CIRCLES OF CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| CHICAGO LIGHTS | $5,000 |
| GLENVIEW CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FNDN | $4,000 |
| SAFER FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| CHICAGO CRED | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF AUSTIN | $2,000 |
| HIRE HEROES | $500 |
| WORKFORCE OPPORTUNITY SERVICES | $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 (FY21–21, $5k) 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.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- KFKIPP FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +143%
- SASUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC4× · 2021–2024 · $23k · revenue +89%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- ABA Better Chicagoone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -16%
- USUNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +2%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +26%
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.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
See schedule othe mission of skills is to stand as a life-changing employment resource connecting underrepresented job seekers to employers with opportunities across industries. we do this by building multi-level, trusted relationships…
Chicago scholars is transforming the leadership landscape of our city by resolving the fundamental barriers to success for academically driven, first generation college students from under-resourced communities.
Goodwill industries of metropolitan chicago, inc. ("goodwill-chicago") is a nonstock, not-for-profit illinois corporation, whose sole member is goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill"), a wisconsin nonstock,…
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To equip all students in grades six through twelve with the academic skills, intellectual habits and character traits to succeed in the college of their choice, strenghten their communities and change the world.
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
Youth job center connects youth ages 14-25 to meaningful careers through early exposure, workforce training, individualized coaching, and strong employer partnerships. we meet young people where they are and guide them toward living-wage…
In fiscal year 2025, the agency operated an americorps maker fellowship, placing 7 americorps vista members at 6 different education focused organizations in ca, ma, and ny. americorps members worked on capacity building projects to expand…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chicago Cred Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 21 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 METROSQUASH NFP ↗
- Who funds KIPP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MATH CIRCLES OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GLEN VIEW CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Chicago Cred Inc ↗
- Who funds A Better Chicago ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO LIGHTS ↗
- Who funds Safer Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds ALL STARS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HIRE HEROES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WORKFORCE OUTSOURCE SERVICES INC dba WORKFORCE OPPORTUNITY SERVICES ↗
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 Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Finnegan Family Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Greater Chicago Food Depository · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · AbbVie Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Ten Talents Foundation Ltd 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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