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The Wings of Impact Foundation at a glance

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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.

$71k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$31kYouth Development$29kHealth$23kEducation$22kReligion$20kArts & Culture$5kRecreation & Sports$3kScience & Tech$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
$1,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$890k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHICAGO POLICE MEM FDN$30,500
OPEN HEART MAGIC$15,000
RIVER FOREST ED FDN$5,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GRTER NASH$5,000
NATIONAL HELLENIC MUSEUM$2,500
MR DAD'S FATHERS CLUB$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
CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL LATINO CA$1,000
STEPPENWOLF THEATER COMPANY$1,000
CHICAGO ALDERMANIC BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION$1,000
FRIENDS OF GALILEO$500
Individual grant recipient$500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OPEN HEART MAGIC: $15k → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $20k → 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 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.

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Students Run Chicago
Health
2
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
3
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
4
Chicago Toy & Game Foundation
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5
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation
Human Services
6
The Chicago High School for the Arts

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…

Education
7
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
8
Chicago Football Classic Scholarship Fund Inc

Provide education scholarships & promote chicago college football game

Education
9
The Chicago Innovation Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Chicago Cultural Mile Association
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11
Chicago Humanities Festival

To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
12
Chicago Historical Society

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Latin School of Chicago; 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.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
5/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHICAGO POLICE MEM FDN: $30,500 · OtherCHICAGO POLICE MEM FDNOUR LADY OF THE HOLY FAMILY: $15,000 · OtherOUR LADY OF THE HOLY FAMILYST CHRYSOSTOM'S DAY SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherST CHRYSOSTOM'S DAY SCHOOLRIVER FOREST ED FDN: $5,000 · OtherRIVER FOREST ED FDNANOTHER CHANCE MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · OtherANOTHER CHANCE MINISTRIES INCRF EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Other+8 more: $7,750 · Other+8 moreA Better Chicago: $20,000 · Human ServicesA Better ChicagoOPEN HEART MAGIC: $15,000 · Human ServicesOPEN HEART MAGICHISPANIC LAWYERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $5,000 · EducationHISPANIC L…THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO: $5,000 · EducationTHE LATIN …MR DAD FATHERS CLUB: $2,500 · EducationMR DAD FAT…FRIENDS OF GALILEO: $500 · EducationChildrens Oncology Services Inc: $7,000 · HealthBoys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua Inc: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHICAGO ALDERMANIC BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentNational Hellenic Museum: $2,500 · Arts & CultureSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY: $1,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART FKA MEXICAN FINE ARTS CENTER MUSEUM: $500 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $500 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO POLICE KNIGHTS BASEBALL CLUB: $1,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$70,750Human Services$35,000Education$13,000Health$7,000Youth Development$6,000Arts & Culture$4,500Recreation & Sports$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetA Better Chicago: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPEN HEART MAGIC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetChildrens Oncology Services Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHISPANIC LAWYERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO POLICE KNIGHTS BASEBALL CLUB: $1,500 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetSpecial Children's Charities: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCUSTOM CARES CHARITIES: $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART FKA MEXICAN FINE ARTS CENTER MUSEUM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF GALILEO: $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Chicago Community…United Way of Metropo…Charities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL14.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Wings of Impact Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wings of Impact Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
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    How do I get to The Wings of Impact Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Wings of Impact Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 28 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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