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UNITED WAY - MCCORMICK PARTNERSHIP FOR
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$9.3M
Granted FY2025
14
Grants
1
Communities
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Community Improvement$9.2MHuman Services$6.2MPhilanthropy$3.7MEducation$3.0MArts & Culture$3.0MYouth Development$1.6MFood & Nutrition$1.0MOther$2.8M
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
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2025
wellnessgarfield park
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 14 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k3 grants · $510k
- $250k+11 grants · $6.3M
$500,000
Median grant
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States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
- BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL$1,008,000
- URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE$1,000,000
- METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES$550,000
- LATINOS PROGRESANDO$528,000
- AUSTIN COMING TOGETHER$528,000
- GREATER AUBURN GRESHAM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$500,000
- EVANSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$500,000
- CLARETIAN ASSOCIATES INC$480,000
- TEAMWORK ENGLEWOOD$460,000
- PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES$350,000
- BRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH$350,000
- ENLACE CHICAGO$210,000
- GARFIELD PARK RITE OF WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE$180,000
- YOUTH CROSSROADS INC$120,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $6.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$29M · 13 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else
13 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
13
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Total granted
$29M
$1.2M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+192%
+431%
Still filing today
92%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BPBrighton Park Neighborhood Council6× · 2019–2025 · $5.7M · revenue +189%
- WCWEST CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK6× · 2019–2025 · $5.1M · revenue +192%
- ACAustin Coming Together6× · 2019–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +576% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- UGURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVEgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $1.0M · revenue +431%
- GPGARFIELD PARK RITE OF WELLNESS COLLABORATIVEone grant, 2025 · $180k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Chicago United for Equity
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
Civil Rights
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Latino Union of Chicago
Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.
Human Services
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Local Economic and Employment
North Branch Works is a membership-supported nonprofit neighborhood organization that for more than three decades has promoted balanced, job-creating economic development along the North Branch of the Chicago River.
Employment
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Chicago Learning Exchange
The Chicago Learning Exchange (CLX) is a nonprofit organization that connects and supports our city's array of out-of-school time youth-focused organizations in order to prepare youth, youth workers, and our city for the future.
Youth Development
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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
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Logan Square Neighborhood Association
To advance diversity, leader development, & models for engagement as catalyst for change.
Community Improvement
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South East Chicago Commission
SECC collaborates with other University of Chicago businesses, and organizations to foster a spirit of community and to enhance ongoing quality of life across neighborhoods it serves.
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Arkansas United
Arkansas United is dedicated to empowering immigrants and their communities through community organizing, leadership development, advocacy, promoting civic engagement, and immigrant integration.
Human Services
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West Side Forward
Business development program which include the city of chicago neighborhood development center and west forward developed and direct business development services,counseling and entrepreneurship training and education.
Employment
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Lincoln Park Community Services
Lpcs brings communities together to empower individuals facing homelessness and poverty to secure stable housing and make sustainable life changes.
Housing & Shelter
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Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc
ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…
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Chicago Workers' Collaborative Nfp
To provide job skills, adult education and counseling to employed and unemployed workers.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc and the most unlike its peers is Phalanx Family Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Community Improvement$9,152,874Human Services$6,203,457Philanthropy$3,662,034Education$2,954,034Arts & Culture$2,954,033Other$2,834,038Youth Development$1,628,895Food & Nutrition$1,000,000
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 Brighton Park Neighborhood Council ↗
- Who funds WEST CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Austin Coming Together ↗
- Who funds Latinos Progresando ↗
- Who funds Evanston Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corp ↗
- Who funds Bright Star Community Outreach ↗
- Who funds Youth Crossroads Inc ↗
- Who funds URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds United Way of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds TEAMWORK ENGLEWOOD ↗
- Who funds ENLACE CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds GARFIELD PARK RITE OF WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE ↗
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.
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur · Forefront · The Joyce Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Healthy Communities Foundation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Greater Chicago Food Depository · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland 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 organisation UNITED WAY - MCCORMICK PARTNERSHIP FOR 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Austin Coming Together.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~19 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 6.8× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 450920919 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Austin Coming Together, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 19 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 35% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to United Way - McCormick Partnership For?
Find your warmest path to United Way - McCormick Partnership For through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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By state
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