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United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc

United way of metro chicago brings together and activates people, resources, and expertise to improve outcomes for individuals, families, and communities.

$28M
Granted FY2025still arriving
331
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$63MCommunity Improvement$38MPhilanthropy$35MHealth$23MHousing & Shelter$16MYouth Development$12MEducation$12MEmployment$10MOther$0
02FY2025 · 331 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 331 grants below total $22,795,927 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $28,397,762 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,601,835 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

  • Under $10k110 grants · $660k
  • $10k–50k145 grants · $3.7M
  • $50k–250k54 grants · $4.3M
  • $250k+22 grants · $14M
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$49M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES$2,038,325
BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL$1,322,556
RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$1,050,471
URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC$1,000,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO$786,602
RAND CORPORATION$639,543
CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$630,886
AUSTIN COMING TOGETHER$623,953
LATINOS PROGRESANDO$573,063
JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO$559,660
GREATER AUBURN GRESHAM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$538,500
OAI INC$514,588
EVANSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$509,000
TEAMWORK ENGLEWOOD$485,000
CLARETIAN ASSOCIATES INC$440,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $49.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $1.0M → 10%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE (FII) - NATIONAL: $500k → 10%Outreach Community Ministries: $180k → 7%CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF IL: $289k → 14%Outreach Community Ministries: $180k → 7%Children's Home & Aid Society of Il: $178k → 14%Outreach Community Ministries: $177k → 7%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $2.6M → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $2.0M → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $1.9M → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $1.8M → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $1.4M → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $1.1M → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $559k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $334k → 14%YWCA Metropolitan Chicago: $269k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $263k → 14%YWCA Metropolitan Chicago: $257k → 14%YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $256k → 14%YWCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $181k → 14%American Red Cross of Greater Chicago: $1.0M → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $356k → 14%SGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $350k → 14%TOGETHER WE COPE: $167k → 14%SGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $204k → 14%ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $155k → 14%Corazon Community Services: $175k → 14%Corazon Community Services: $174k → 14%Association House of Chicago: $195k → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $163k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $725k → 14%YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $570k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $404k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $403k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $403k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $401k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $398k → 14%Family Focus Inc: $155k → 14%PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES: $375k → 14%PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES: $375k → 14%FAR SOUTH NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK: $175k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $2.1M → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $1.1M → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $209k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $2.0M → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $201k → 14%Children's Home & Aid Society of IL: $172k → 14%Children's Home & Aid: $162k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$191M · 480 repeat orgs$22M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

480 repeat relationships — 214 still active in FY2025, 266 since wound down; 115 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

480
341

Total granted

$191M
$21M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+29%

Still filing today

90%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementYouth 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

  • MF
    Metropolitan Family Services
    9× · 2017–2025 · $16M · revenue +332%
  • AC
    Austin Coming Together
    8× · 2017–2025 · $9.3M · revenue +256% · 63% of their budget
  • CC
    Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago
    9× · 2017–2025 · $7.8M · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHICAGO CONNECTED
    one grant, 2021 · $9.7M
  • H
    HIRE360graduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1.4M · revenue +46%
  • SA
    Salvation Army Metropolitan Chicago
    one grant, 2017 · $726k

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.

1
Chicago United for Equity

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

Civil Rights
2
Chicago Cares Inc

Chicago Cares, Inc. mobilizes volunteers to build a stronger, more unified Chicago.

Community Improvement
3
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
4
Center for Housing and Health

Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
5
Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for

Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.

Education
6
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
7
Child Link Inc

Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…

Human Services
8
Chicago Votes

Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government,…

Civil Rights
9
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
10
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
11
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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12
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dbc Gifts of Love Nfp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySenior Housing CommunitiesChicago Arts and Culture Or…Civil Rights & Justice Advo…Cancer and Serious Illness …Community Health CentersLabor Union OrganizationsRegional Business ChambersYouth Sports ProgramsFamily Philanthropic Founda…Professional Associations &…Industry Trade AssociationsDiverse Social ServicesFaith-Based Community Cente…Faith-Based Community Devel…Alternative K-12 SchoolsYouth Development and Mento…Emergency Assistance & Cris…Developmental Disabilities …Early Childhood Care & Educ…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%6%<5yr14%9%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr18%9%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr14%31%35–55yr16%34%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%16/949
the rest of the field
15%
5,541/35,810

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

828 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. 828 of the 949 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.

16
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
250
Early backer (in before they grew)
799/828
Grantees still filing
601/828
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Metropolitan Family Services — $16,049,371 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Family Service…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $4,883,785 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross…The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago — $3,466,450 · Human ServicesThe YMCA of Metropolitan Ch…YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $2,325,037 · Human Services+48 more — $23,843,725 · Human Services+48 moreCHICAGO CONNECTED — $9,709,034 · OtherCHICAGO CONNECTEDCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago — $7,822,066 · OtherCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of…BRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH CORP — $2,884,551 · OtherLatinos Progresando — $3,894,924 · Other+85 more — $51,174,980 · Other+85 moreROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION — $19,326,823 · PhilanthropyROBERT R MCCORMIC…JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $6,416,810 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION…Evanston Community Foundation — $2,533,383 · PhilanthropyEvanston Communit…UNITED WAY - MCCORMICK PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG NEIGHBORHOODS INC — $2,500,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY - MCCO…+3 more — $1,122,605 · PhilanthropyAustin Coming Together — $9,256,465 · EducationAustin Com…CHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $4,676,930 · EducationCHILDREN F…CENTER RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING — $1,023,120 · EducationCENTER RES…PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN — $712,487 · Education+10 more — $3,508,913 · Education+10 moreBRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL — $7,687,301 · Community ImprovementGREATER AUBURN GRESHAM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $3,879,775 · Community ImprovementEnlace Chicago — $1,493,463 · Community ImprovementTeamwork Englewood Inc — $951,317 · Community ImprovementCHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC — $794,308 · Community Improvement+3 more — $926,333 · Community ImprovementRush University Medical Center — $3,160,513 · HealthSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM — $1,027,142 · HealthACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK — $803,780 · HealthESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERS — $654,416 · HealthSouth Suburban Council on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse — $621,855 · HealthErie Family Health Center Inc — $532,558 · HealthSaint Anthony Hospital — $469,345 · HealthEASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY REGION — $462,092 · HealthPILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH — $445,219 · HealthAIDS Foundation of Chicago — $443,985 · Health+11 more — $3,081,553 · HealthChicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative — $1,661,308 · EmploymentHIRE360 — $1,352,914 · EmploymentOAI Inc — $1,147,250 · EmploymentCHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE — $717,482 · EmploymentThe Cara Program — $682,778 · EmploymentJANE ADDAMS RESOURCE CORPORATION — $656,393 · EmploymentNORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK — $558,329 · EmploymentSERTOMA STAR SERVICES INC — $314,798 · EmploymentWEST SIDE FORWARD — $295,991 · Employment
Human Services$50,568,368Other$75,485,555Philanthropy$31,899,621Education$19,177,915Community Improvement$15,732,497Health$11,702,458Employment$7,387,243

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION — $19,326,823 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services — $16,049,371 over 9y, 4.7% of budgetAustin Coming Together — $9,256,465 over 8y, 63% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago — $7,822,066 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetBRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL — $7,687,301 over 9y, 20% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $6,416,810 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $4,883,785 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $4,676,930 over 6y, 15% of budgetLatinos Progresando — $3,894,924 over 8y, 30% of budgetGREATER AUBURN GRESHAM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $3,879,775 over 9y, 17% of budgetThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago — $3,466,450 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetRush University Medical Center — $3,160,513 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH CORP — $2,884,551 over 9y, 13% of budgetEvanston Community Foundation — $2,533,383 over 7y, 14% of budgetUNITED WAY - MCCORMICK PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG NEIGHBORHOODS INC — $2,500,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetYOUTH CROSSROADS INC — $2,359,673 over 9y, 30% of budgetYWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $2,325,037 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetCORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NFP — $2,306,694 over 8y, 23% of budgetChicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative — $1,661,308 over 6y, 20% of budgetYWCA EvanstonNorth Shore — $1,632,451 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $1,506,242 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetFII - NATIONAL — $1,500,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetEnlace Chicago — $1,493,463 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetHIRE360 — $1,352,914 over 1y, 20% of budgetRESTORATION MINISTRIES INC — $1,322,468 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL — $1,296,884 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $1,209,349 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetOAI Inc — $1,147,250 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES — $1,147,232 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF JOLIET — $1,088,712 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM — $1,027,142 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC — $1,025,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING — $1,023,120 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER — $992,972 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetHeartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights — $987,292 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetPHALANX FAMILY SERVICES — $963,078 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetTeamwork Englewood Inc — $951,317 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetBUILD INC — $940,565 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetYOUTH & OPPORTUNITY UNITED INC — $916,616 over 9y, 7.1% of budgetASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO — $870,147 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetThe Rand Corporation — $845,778 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER — $805,713 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK — $803,780 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC — $794,308 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetLawrence Hall — $794,133 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetMUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION — $786,235 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC — $776,830 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetSERTOMA CENTRE INC — $743,845 over 9y, 1.1% of budget
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 ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
  • Who funds Austin Coming Together ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Latinos Progresando ↗
  • Who funds GREATER AUBURN GRESHAM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH CORP ↗
  • Who funds Evanston Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY - MCCORMICK PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG NEIGHBORHOODS INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH CROSSROADS INC ↗
  • Who funds YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NFP ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative ↗
  • Who funds YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds FII - NATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Enlace Chicago ↗
  • Who funds HIRE360 ↗
  • Who funds RESTORATION MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds OAI Inc ↗
  • Who funds OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF JOLIET ↗
  • Who funds SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING ↗
  • Who funds LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights ↗
  • Who funds PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES ↗

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.

Polk Bros Foundation …Robert R McCormick Fo…Chicago Foundation fo…Circle of Service Fou…Field Foundation of I…ForefrontMichael Reese Health …George M Eisenberg Fo…Visiting Nurse Associ…Healthy Communities F…Blowitz-Ridgeway Foun…Northwestern Memorial…
Polk Bros Foundation IncIL177.3× affinity147 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women · Circle of Service Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Forefront · Michael Reese Health Trust · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · Healthy Communities Foundation · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group

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 of Metropolitan Chicago 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
89report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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: 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 949 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home