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The Wings of Impact Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHICAGO POLICE MEM FDN | $30,500 |
| OPEN HEART MAGIC | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GRTER NASH | $5,000 |
| RIVER FOREST ED FDN | $5,000 |
| MR DAD'S FATHERS CLUB | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL HELLENIC MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY SERVICE | $2,000 |
| CHICAGO POLICE KNIGHTS BASEBALL CLUB | $1,500 |
| PUSH FOR EXCELLENCE INC | $1,500 |
| MARY BARTELME PARK PAC NFP | $1,250 |
| STEPPENWOLF THEATER COMPANY | $1,000 |
| CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL LATINO CA | $1,000 |
| CHICAGO ALDERMANIC BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| FRIENDS OF GALILEO | $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 (FY24–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
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…
The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…
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.
Provide education scholarships & promote chicago college football game
To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.
The Chicago History Museum strives to be a destination for learning, inspiration, and civic engagement. Through dynamic exhibitions, tours, programs, digital resources, and special events, the Museum connects people to Chicago's history…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Latin School of Chicago and the most unlike its peers is Custom Cares Charities. 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 29 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 28 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 A Better Chicago ↗
- Who funds OPEN HEART MAGIC ↗
- Who funds Childrens Oncology Services Inc ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC LAWYERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua Inc ↗
- Who funds MR DAD FATHERS CLUB ↗
- Who funds National Hellenic Museum ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO POLICE KNIGHTS BASEBALL CLUB ↗
- Who funds PUSH FOR EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO ALDERMANIC BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Special Children's Charities ↗
- Who funds CUSTOM CARES CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GALILEO ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART FKA MEXICAN FINE ARTS CENTER MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
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 · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Wings of Impact 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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