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Triple Eee Foundation at a glance

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Triple Eee 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.

$25k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$149kYouth Development$11kCivil Rights$6kFood & Nutrition$4kHousing & Shelter$2kHealth$2kEducation$665Philanthropy$460Other$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$923k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAKOM SOLEL LAKESIDE$14,202
YOUTH GUIDANCE$5,532
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$5,000
FRIENDS OF BURLEY$156
GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND$50
ISLANDERS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$40
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CTR FOR RADICALLY INCLUSIVE JUDAISM: $3k → 8%GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND: $50 → 10%BOYS TO MEN MENTORING: $100 → 11%VITAMIN ALLIANCE: $350 → 14%ISLANDERS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $40 → 6%Am Friends of Mogen David Adom: $2k → 17%RELIGIOUS ACTION CENTER: $50k → 14%GRAND RAPIDS HOSPICE: $50 → 11%NO IL FOOD BANK: $550 → 8%MAKOM SOLEL LAKESIDE: $14k → 8%YOUTH GUIDANCE: $6k → 14%AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $5k → 17%RELIGIOUS ACTION CENTERURJ: $25k → 14%MAKOM SOLEL LAKESIDE: $6k → 8%YOUTH GUIDANCE: $4k → 14%AMER JEWISH COMMITTEE: $180 → 17%RELIGIOUS ACTION CENTERURJ: $25k → 14%Makom Solel Lakeside: $5k → 8%Youth Guidance: $519 → 14%RELIGIOUS ACTION CENTER OF REFORM JUDAISM: $10k → 17%MAKOM SOLEL LAKESIDE: $4k → 8%Youth Guidance: $500 → 14%MAKOM SOLEL LAKESIDE: $4k → 8%YOUTH GUIDANCE: $500 → 14%MAKOM SOLEL LAKESIDE: $2k → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL ON URBAN AFFAIRS: $200 → 14%Cubc Charities: $50 → 14%FRIENDS OF BURLEY: $251 → 14%FRIENDS OF BURLEY: $156 → 14%FRIENDS OF BURLEY: $154 → 14%FRIENDS OF BURLEY: $104 → 14%JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $360 → 14%SOCIETY TO IMPROVE DIAGNOSIS IN MEDICINE: $2k → 14%Alzeimer's Assn: $2k → 14%CHICAGO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $1k → 14%Chic Coalition for he Homeless: $550 → 14%Chic Coalition for he Homeless: $500 → 14%CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $3k → 14%Chicago Food Depository: $550 → 14%Chicago Food Depository: $500 → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$101k · 6 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
17

Total granted

$101k
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+22%

Still filing today

33%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyEducationCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RA
    RELIGIOUS ACTION CENTERURJ
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k
  • MS
    MAKOM SOLEL LAKESIDE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $35k
  • YG
    Youth Guidance
    5× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • RA
    RELIGIOUS ACTION CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • RA
    RELIGIOUS ACTION CENTER OF REFORM JUDAISM
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR RADICALLY INCLUSIVE JUDAISM INC
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
Chicago United for Equity

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

Civil Rights
2
Jewish Childrens Museum

To further jewish historical education among youths

Arts & Culture
3
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
4
Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Inc

Secure racial equity and economic opportunity for all

Crime & Legal
5
Jews of Color Initiative

The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S. Jewish community by centering the leadership of Jews of Color and ensuring that our communities and institutions reflect the multiracial reality of the Jewish…

Civil Rights
6
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
7
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
8
Chicago Jobs Council

Chicago Jobs Council (CJC) pursues its mission through advocacy, applied research, public education and capacity-building initiatives focused on influencing the development or reform of public policies and programs. From 18 original…

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9
Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice Northwest

The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.

Human Services
10
The Chicago Bar Foundation

The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.

Education
11
Chicago Committee On Minorities in Large Law Firms

The chicago committee seeks racial and ethnic diversity in the legal profession by collaborating with its law firm and corporate membership to: drive sustainable institutional change at law firms and corporate legal departments; provide…

Civil Rights
12
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Giants Community Fund; the most unlike its peers is Islanders Children's Foundation Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 26 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)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RELIGIOUS ACTION CENTERURJ: $50,000 · OtherRELIGIOUS ACTION CENTERURJRELIGIOUS ACTION CENTER: $50,000 · OtherRELIGIOUS ACTION CENTERMAKOM SOLEL LAKESIDE: $34,719 · OtherMAKOM SOLEL LAKESIDERELIGIOUS ACTION CENTER OF REFORM JUDAISM: $10,000 · OtherRELIGIOUS ACTION CENTER OF REFORM JUDAISM+12 more: $13,955 · Other+12 moreYouth Guidance: $10,551 · EducationFRIENDS OF BURLEY: $665 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $5,000 · Civil RightsCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $500 · Crime & LegalJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $360 · PhilanthropyGIANTS COMMUNITY FUND: $50 · PhilanthropyISLANDERS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $40 · PhilanthropyJewish Council on Urban Affairs: $200 · Community ImprovementBoys to Men Mentoring Network Inc: $100 · Youth Development
Other$158,674Education$11,216Civil Rights$5,000Housing & Shelter$1,000Crime & Legal$500Philanthropy$450Community Improvement$200Youth Development$100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYouth Guidance: $10,551 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY TO IMPROVE DIAGNOSIS IN MEDICINE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BURLEY: $665 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Council on Urban Affairs: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys to Men Mentoring Network Inc: $100 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.

  • Who funds Youth Guidance ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY TO IMPROVE DIAGNOSIS IN MEDICINE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF BURLEY ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Council on Urban Affairs ↗
  • Who funds Boys to Men Mentoring Network Inc ↗
  • Who funds GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND ↗
  • Who funds ISLANDERS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗

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…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL12.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Triple Eee Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Triple Eee Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    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 26 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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