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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.

$9.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Community Improvement$16MHuman Services$5.9MPhilanthropy$4.2MArts & Culture$3.5MHousing & Shelter$2.8MYouth Development$1.5MEmployment$1.2MFood & Nutrition$1.0MOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $6,764,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $9,273,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,509,500 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $510k
  • $250k+11 grants · $6.3M
$500,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH$350,000
PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES$350,000
ENLACE CHICAGO$210,000
GARFIELD PARK RITE OF WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE$180,000
YOUTH CROSSROADS INC$120,000
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WEST CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK: $650k → 14%BLUE ISLANDROBBINS NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK: $240k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $865k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $720k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $550k → 14%PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES: $350k → 14%PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES: $350k → 14%PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES: $350k → 14%FAR SOUTH NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK: $175k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES DUPAGE: $879k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES DUPAGE: $700k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services DuPage: $628k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES BLUE ISLAND-ROBBINS: $240k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES BLUE ISLAND-ROBBINS: $240k → 14%Metro Family Services Blue Island-Robbins: $156k → 14%GARFIELD PARK RITE OF WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE: $180k → 14%GARFIELD PARK RITE OF WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE: $180k → 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$31M · 13 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
1

Total granted

$31M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+99%
+431%

Still filing today

92%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BP
    BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL
    7× · 2019–2025 · $6.7M · revenue +115%
  • MF
    Metropolitan Family Services
    7× · 2019–2025 · $5.9M · revenue +196%
  • AC
    Austin Coming Together
    7× · 2019–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +256% · 35% of their budget

Funded once

  • UG
    URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2025 · $1.0M · revenue +431%
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
Chicago Workers' Collaborative Nfp

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…

Education
3
Local Economic and Employment Development Council Inc

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
4
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
5
Live Free Chicago

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…

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6
McKinley Park Development Council

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.

Community Improvement
7
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
8
The Partnership for College Completion

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…

Education
9
Greater Englewood Community Dev Corp

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.

—
10
Blocks Together

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…

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11
Garfield Park Community Council

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.

Community Improvement
12
Chicago Refugee Coalition

The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 15 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL: $6,683,855 · Community ImprovementBRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCILGREATER AUBURN GRESHAM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $2,767,019 · Community ImprovementGREATER AUBURN GRESHAM DEVELOPMENT…Teamwork Englewood Inc: $910,000 · Community ImprovementTeamwork Englewood IncEnlace Chicago: $660,000 · Community ImprovementEnlace ChicagoMetropolitan Family Services: $5,868,457 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Family Ser…PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES: $1,225,000 · Human ServicesPHALANX FAMILY SERVICESGarfield Park Rite to Wellness: $360,000 · Human ServicesEvanston Community Foundation: $3,412,034 · PhilanthropyEvanston Comm…UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $750,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF…Austin Coming Together: $3,482,034 · EducationAustin Com…Latinos Progresando: $3,482,033 · Arts & CultureLatinos Pr…CLARETIAN ASSOCIATES INC: $1,837,019 · OtherCLARETIAN …YOUTH CROSSROADS INC: $1,477,019 · OtherYOUTH CROS…BRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH CORP: $1,978,895 · Youth DevelopmentURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC: $1,000,000 · Food & Nutrition
Community Improvement$11,020,874Human Services$7,453,457Philanthropy$4,162,034Education$3,482,034Arts & Culture$3,482,033Other$3,314,038Youth Development$1,978,895Food & Nutrition$1,000,000

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 budgetBRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL: $6,683,855 over 7y, 15% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services: $5,868,457 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetAustin Coming Together: $3,482,034 over 7y, 35% of budgetLatinos Progresando: $3,482,033 over 7y, 25% of budgetEvanston Community Foundation: $3,412,034 over 7y, 14% of budgetGREATER AUBURN GRESHAM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $2,767,019 over 7y, 7.9% of budgetBRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH CORP: $1,978,895 over 7y, 7.7% of budgetYOUTH CROSSROADS INC: $1,477,019 over 7y, 17% of budgetPHALANX FAMILY SERVICES: $1,225,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetTeamwork Englewood Inc: $910,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $750,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEnlace Chicago: $660,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetGarfield Park Rite to Wellness: $360,000 over 2y, 16% 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 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 ↗

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.

United Way of Metropo…John D and Catherine …The Chicago Community…ForefrontThe Joyce FoundationPolk Bros Foundation …Circle of Service Fou…Local Initiatives Sup…Marquette Bank Afford…Healthy Communities F…Field Foundation of I…Arie and Ida Crown Me…
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL30× affinity12 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 · 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

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 United Way - McCormick Partnership for Strong Neighborhoods Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way - McCormick Partnership for Strong Neighborhoods Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%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
    8report 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 15 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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