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Hulsebosch Hope 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.

$400k
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0169% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2024.

Education$102kArts & Culture$93kHealth$85kYouth Development$82kHuman Services$79kCommunity Improvement$70kEmployment$46kFood & Nutrition$45kReligion$25kOther$351k
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $362k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DELTA INSTITUTE$30,000
CATHOLIC BISHOP OF CHICAGO$25,000
BOXING OUT NEGATIVITY INC$20,000
LADDER UP$13,500
MOBILE C A R E FOUNDATION$13,500
CENTRO SANAR$13,500
BANDWITH MUSIC LTD$13,250
SKYART NFP$12,500
BELLARMINE JESUIT RETREAT HOUSE INC$12,500
PEOPLES MUSIC SCHOOL INC$12,250
LATIN WOMEN IN ACTION$12,000
SOMETHING GOOD IN ENGLEWOOD INC$12,000
FOCUS FAIRIES MENTORING$12,000
LA RABIDA CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$10,000
CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $79k) 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.

area typical 10%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $500 → 17%FRIENDS IN ACTION: $1k → 11%TALLER DE JOSE: $3k → 14%THE PUDDLE PROJECT NFP: $16k → 14%THE PUDDLE PROJECT NFP: $8k → 14%THE PUDDLE PROJECT NFP: $2k → 14%THE PUDDLE PROJECT NFP: $795 → 14%MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $4k → 14%LATIN WOMEN IN ACTION: $15k → 14%LATIN WOMEN IN ACTION: $12k → 14%BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $3k → 14%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR ST JOSEPHS HOME FOR THE: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$710k · 26 repeat orgs$267k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
19

Total granted

$710k
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+9%

Still filing today

88%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • BO
    Boxing Out Negativity Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +61%
  • MC
    MOBILE CARE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $39k · revenue +22%
  • FA
    FARMWORKER AND LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT
    2× · 2023–2024 · $36k · revenue +236%

Funded once

  • HT
    Heart to Heart Inc A Catholic Media Ministry
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -54%
  • EI
    EMPOWER ILLINOIS
    one grant, 2022 · $21k · revenue -99%
  • UG
    URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +26%

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

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Latino Union of Chicago

Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.

Human Services
3
Legal Aid Chicago

At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…

Crime & Legal
4
Chicago United for Equity

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

Civil Rights
5
Erie Neighborhood House

Erie neighborhood house provides the most comprehensive support to immigrant and low-income families in chicago. our mission is to empower our communitylatinx immigrants alongside individuals and families of all backgroundsthrough…

Human Services
6
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
7
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…

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8
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
9
Executive Service Corps of Chicago

Executive Service Corps is the premier nonprofit consultancy that engages highly skilled professionals who use their experience and expertise to provide nonprofits with the consulting services they need to be successful. Our vision is to…

Community Improvement
10
Chicago Workers' Collaborative Nfp

Chicago Workers' Collaborative's mission is to promote full employment and equality for the lowest wage-earners, primarily temporary staffing workers, in the Chicago region through leadership and skills training, critical assistance and…

Education
11
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
12
Chicago Refugee Coalition

The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Empower Illinois and the most unlike its peers is The Puddle Project Nfp. 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 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%6%<5yr14%17%5–10yr18%9%10–20yr17%17%20–35yr15%26%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%7%<5yr14%17%5–10yr18%9%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr15%19%35–55yr16%24%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/55
the rest of the field
16%
5,000/31,455

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.

04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 58 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
33/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CATHOLIC BISHOP OF CHICAGO — $58,500 · OtherCATHOLIC BISHOP OF CHICAGOLawrence Hall — $30,250 · OtherLawrence HallGENESYS WORKS — $30,000 · OtherGENESYS WORKSONWARD NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $25,250 · OtherONWARD NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSEChicago Jobs Council — $25,000 · OtherChicago Jobs CouncilMANUFACTURING RENAISSANCE FKA CENTER FOR LABOR AND COMMUN — $23,000 · OtherALL SAINTS CATHOLIC CONGREGATION — $18,000 · OtherFARMWORKER AND LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT — $35,500 · OtherFARMWORKER AND LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECTCHICAGO'S GREEN CITY MARKET PROGRAM — $25,000 · OtherCHICAGO'S GREEN CITY MARKET PROGRAMURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC — $20,000 · OtherHeart to Heart Inc A Catholic Media Ministry — $25,000 · OtherHeart to Heart Inc A Catholic Media MinistrySHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $20,250 · OtherFoundation for Children in Need — $20,000 · Other+17 more — $110,600 · Other+17 moreLADDER UP (F/K/A CITY-WIDE TAX ASSISTANCE PROGRAM) — $34,750 · EducationLADDER UP (…SOMETHING GOOD IN ENGLEWOOD INC — $32,000 · EducationSOMETHING G…EMPOWER ILLINOIS — $20,707 · EducationEMPOWER ILL…LION PRIDE MENTORING INC — $10,000 · EducationLION PRIDE …CREO DUPAGE LTD — $5,000 · EducationSkyArt NFP — $32,750 · Arts & CultureSkyArt NFPThe People's Music School — $32,250 · Arts & CultureThe People…BANDWITH MUSIC LTD — $28,250 · Arts & CultureBANDWITH M…MOBILE CARE FOUNDATION — $38,750 · HealthMOBILE CA…CENTRO SANAR — $33,500 · HealthCENTRO SA…La Rabida Children's Hospital — $10,250 · HealthLa Rabida…+2 more — $2,500 · HealthBoxing Out Negativity Inc — $49,600 · Youth DevelopmentBoxing Ou…FOCUS FAIRIES MENTORING — $32,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOCUS FAI…MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION — $27,000 · Human ServicesMUJERES L…The Puddle Project NFP — $26,920 · Human ServicesThe Puddl…LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR PALATINE ST JOSEPHS HOME FOR THE ELDERLY — $10,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE SI…MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Human ServicesMISERICOR…THE NIGHT MINISTRY — $3,500 · Human Services+4 more — $6,500 · Human Services+4 moreTHE DELTA INSTITUTE — $30,000 · Community ImprovementCHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementCHICAGO'S SUNSHINE ENTERPRISES INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC — $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$466,350Education$102,457Arts & Culture$93,250Health$85,000Youth Development$81,600Human Services$78,920Community Improvement$70,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBoxing Out Negativity Inc — $49,600 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetMOBILE CARE FOUNDATION — $38,750 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFARMWORKER AND LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT — $35,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLADDER UP (F/K/A CITY-WIDE TAX ASSISTANCE PROGRAM) — $34,750 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRO SANAR — $33,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSkyArt NFP — $32,750 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe People's Music School — $32,250 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFOCUS FAIRIES MENTORING — $32,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetSOMETHING GOOD IN ENGLEWOOD INC — $32,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLawrence Hall — $30,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DELTA INSTITUTE — $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBANDWITH MUSIC LTD — $28,250 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION — $27,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Puddle Project NFP — $26,920 over 2y, 21% of budgetONWARD NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $25,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHeart to Heart Inc A Catholic Media Ministry — $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO'S GREEN CITY MARKET PROGRAM — $25,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetChicago Jobs Council — $25,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMANUFACTURING RENAISSANCE FKA CENTER FOR LABOR AND COMMUN — $23,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetEMPOWER ILLINOIS — $20,707 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $20,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFoundation for Children in Need — $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBELLARMINE JESUIT RETREAT HOUSE INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGO YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $10,250 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLa Rabida Children's Hospital — $10,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLION PRIDE MENTORING INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetLIFT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO'S SUNSHINE ENTERPRISES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR PALATINE ST JOSEPHS HOME FOR THE ELDERLY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNOURISHING HOPE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCREO DUPAGE LTD — $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $3,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTALLER DE JOSE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOrganizing Neighborhoods For Equality Northside — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSARAH'S CIRCLE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS IN ACTION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWAGS 2 WISHES ANIMAL RESCUE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRush University Medical Center — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Chicago Community…United Way of Metropo…Polk Bros Foundation …John D and Catherine …Helen V Brach Foundat…Dr Scholl FoundationRobert R McCormick Fo…Chicago Foundation fo…AbbVie FoundationLloyd a Fry FoundationCme Group FoundationFifth Third Chicagola…
The Chicago Community TrustIL38.6× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women · AbbVie Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Cme Group Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation

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 Hulsebosch Hope 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

    Source object · view filing

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