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The Woman's Club of Evanston

To advance philanthropic, educational, cultural, and humanitarian principles and activities; to assist organizations dedicated to such purposes and to offer opportunities for women to share common interests and concerns.

$222k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$102k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Social Science$143kArts & Culture$73kEducation$69kHuman Services$21kYouth Development$15kHealth$5k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $169,436, the rows itemized in this filing. The $222,436 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $53,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$102,245
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE TED FUND$102,245
SHOREFRONT NFP$67,191
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 (FY23–23, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%C247 FATHER'S ARMS MINISTRIES: $21k → 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.

1
Students Run Chicago
Health
2
Chicago Youth Programs Inc

Tutoring and mentoring programs for inner city youth.

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3
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
4
Chicago Heights Drama Group

To provide affordable community theater.

Arts & Culture
5
High Jump

High jump is a tuition free, two-year enrichment program for talented and motivated middle school students with limited family income. the students attend classes for a five week session during the summers before 7th and 8th grade; as well…

Education
6
Junior Achievement of Central Illinois Inc

Junior Achievement of Central Illinois inspires and prepares young people to succeed in the global economy. Our volunteer-delivered, experiential programs give students knowledge and skills in financial literacy, work readiness and…

International
7
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
8
Lookingglass Theatre Company

Lookingglass theatre company is a national leader in the creation and presentation of innovative, cutting-edge theatrical work. lookingglass interweaves movement, circus arts and narrative in original and captivating ways. guided by an…

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
Chicago Kids Company

THE ORGANIZATION enriches the lives of the young Chicago of children with their classic fairy tale productions. The ORGANIZATION colorful shows introduce children ages 2 to 10 to the magic of live theater, and inspire children to laugh,…

Philanthropy
11
The Simple Good

To empower youth in Chicago and beyond to become forces of positive change in their communities by embracing the goodness that surrounds them.

Unclassified
12
Highsight

To provide academic & social support to inner-city chicago high school students. program provides scholarships, mentors & tutors to enable students to succeed in the high school of their choice.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peer Health Exchange Inc; the most unlike its peers is Shorefront Nfp. 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE TED FUND: $102,245 · OtherTHE TED FUNDNAOMI RUTH COHEN INSTITUTE CO TCSPP: $40,804 · OtherNAOMI RUTH COHEN INSTITUTE CO TCSPP+2 more: $10,000 · Other+2 moreSHOREFRONT NFP: $67,191 · Arts & CultureSHOREFRONT NFPPiven Theatre Workshop: $6,128 · Arts & CulturePiven Theatre WorkshopBOOKS AND BREAKFAST: $69,039 · EducationBOOKS AND BREAKFASTC24 7 FATHER'S ARMS MINISTRIES: $20,836 · Human ServicesPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$153,049Arts & Culture$73,319Education$69,039Human Services$20,836Youth Development$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOOKS AND BREAKFAST: $69,039 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetC24 7 FATHER'S ARMS MINISTRIES: $20,836 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPiven Theatre Workshop: $6,128 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE IGNITES CHICAGO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH & OPPORTUNITY UNITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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…Evanston Community Fo…The Ayco Charitable F…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL16× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Evanston Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Woman's Club of Evanston funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Woman's Club of Evanston. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 10 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 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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