· Public charity
United Way - McCormick Partnership for Strong Neighborhoods Inc
United way - mccormick partnership's goal is to empower community organizations and stakeholders to improve neighborhoods by increasing access to services & opportunities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $6,764,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,273,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,509,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k3 grants · $510k
- $250k+11 grants · $6.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL | $1,008,000 |
| URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE | $1,000,000 |
| METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES | $550,000 |
| AUSTIN COMING TOGETHER | $528,000 |
| LATINOS PROGRESANDO | $528,000 |
| EVANSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| GREATER AUBURN GRESHAM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $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 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $7.5M) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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 COUNCIL7× · 2019–2025 · $6.7M · revenue +115%
- MFMetropolitan Family Services7× · 2019–2025 · $5.9M · revenue +196%
- ACAustin Coming Together7× · 2019–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +256% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- UGURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $1.0M · revenue +431%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
Chicago Workers' Collaborative's mission is to promote full employment and equality for the lowest wage-earners, primarily temporary staffing workers, in the Chicago region through leadership and skills training, critical assistance and…
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.
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.
Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…
The McKinley Park Development Council works to organize, inform, and support neighbors in building the community we want to live in - physically, culturally, and economically.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
The Partnership for College Completion (PCC) champions policies, practices, and systems that increase college completion and eliminate degree completion disparities for low-income, first generation, and students of color in Illinois…
GECDCs mission to rebrand, rebuild, revitalize Greater Englewood and beyond, through Entrepreneurship, Employment and Economic Empowerment by collaborating with community, partners and key stake holders.
Blocks Together: Blocks Together (BT) is a membership-based community organizing group in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood on Chicago's West Side. Since 1995, BT has empowered residents to work together for systematic changes that bring…
Garfield Park Community Council is dedicated to the revitalization of Garfield Park community on Chicago's West Side, a neighborhood of rich history, committed residents, and tremendous opportunities.
The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.
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 Garfield Park Rite to Wellness. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 Metropolitan Family Services ↗
- Who funds Austin Coming Together ↗
- Who funds Latinos Progresando ↗
- Who funds Evanston Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREATER AUBURN GRESHAM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH CORP ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CROSSROADS INC ↗
- Who funds PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Teamwork Englewood Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds Enlace Chicago ↗
- Who funds Garfield Park Rite to Wellness ↗
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.
Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Forefront · The Joyce Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Marquette Bank Affordable Housing Foundation · Healthy Communities Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial
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 organization United Way - McCormick Partnership for Strong Neighborhoods Inc 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.
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 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.