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True Value Foundation

TRUE VALUE FOUNDATION provides resources to improve the lives of youth in the communities we serve.

$303k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$266k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$1.9MHousing & Shelter$81kPhilanthropy$57kEducation$12k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $37k
  • $250k+1 grant · $266k
$266,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$483k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHICAGO$266,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL$37,388
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC: $7k → 11%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SACRAMENTO - WOODLAND BRANCH: $32k → 12%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $50k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA: $150k → 13%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL: $44k → 22%UNITED WAY OF GREATER MCHENRY COUNTY: $7k → 6%NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERISITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHICAGO: $345k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA: $100k → 13%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL: $37k → 22%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHICAGO: $325k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA: $85k → 13%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHICAGO: $266k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA: $10k → 13%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHICAGO: $266k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHICAGO: $246k → 14%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHICAGO: $85k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHICAGO: $15k → 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 3 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

$2.0M
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+39%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentEducationInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +17%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    4× · 2017–2020 · $345k · revenue +62%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $81k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SACRAMENTO INC
    one grant, 2023 · $32k · revenue +16%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF GREATER McHENRY COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue -10%
  • SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue +39%
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
Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley

To inspire and empower all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring adults.

Youth Development
2
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities

To enable young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. for more information visit www.boysandgirls.org.

Youth Development
3
Beta Gamma Sigma Inc

The mission of the international honor society beta gamma sigma is to honor student excellence in business education, develop forward-thinking business leaders, and foster a global community to be catalysts for good.

Education
4
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Sioux Empire

To nurture, educate and enrich children and youth for life-long success.

Human Services
5
Boys & Girls Clubs in Illinois Inc

Mission and significant activities to promote exclusively the social welfare of boys and girls in illinois; to provide guidance and to promote the health, social, educational, vocational, character, and cultural development of boys and…

Youth Development
6
Boys and Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee

Boys & girls clubs of middle tennessee's ("bgcmt") mission is to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens. in essence, we seek to save and…

Youth Development
7
Boys & Girls Club of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc

The boys & girls clubs of the greater chippewa valley's mission is to inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, caring citizens.

Youth Development
8
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Augusta Inc

The mission of the club is to inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens.

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9
Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Illinoi

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as caring, productive and responsible citizens.

Youth Development
10
Boys & Girls Clubs of Buffalo Inc

Our mission is to provide a safe and stable experience that assures success is within reach of all our members - that they graduate from high school with plans for their futures and that they are living healthy lifestyles.

Youth Development
11
Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc

Boys & girls clubs of boston (bgcb) stands as a transformative force in boston and chelsea, where high expectations unlock greatness. we believe that every young person who walks through our doors carries limitless potential. through our…

Youth Development
12
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Peoria Inc

To enable young people, especially those who need us most to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago; the most unlike its peers is Northern Illinois University Foundation. 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

8 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.

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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $1,547,887 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGOBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $345,288 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA+1 more: $31,589 · Youth DevelopmentHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $81,221 · InternationalTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER McHENRY COUNTY INC: $7,045 · PhilanthropySCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC: $6,500 · EducationNORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Education
Youth Development$1,924,764International$81,221Philanthropy$57,045Education$11,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $1,547,887 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $345,288 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $81,221 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SACRAMENTO INC: $31,589 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER McHENRY COUNTY INC: $7,045 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization True Value Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from True Value 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%6%13%19%25%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 · 0–25%
    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 8 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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