· Public charity
Upscale Rummage Sale
Provide monetary donations to 14+ charities benefiting > 1,000 individuals including disabled children & adults, underpriviledged children and abused women
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $78,700 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $114,673 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,973 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Alpha Chi Omega Foundation | $21,200 |
| St Leonard's Ministries | $10,000 |
| Aspire | $10,000 |
| Park Ridge Presbyterian Church | $10,000 |
| Midwest Veteran's Closet | $10,000 |
| Church of St Mary | $10,000 |
| Animal Education & Rescue NFP | $7,500 |
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 (FY21–24, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- AOASPIRE OF ILLINOIS3× · 2021–2024 · $39k · revenue +28%
- GCGorton Community Center2× · 2021–2022 · $33k · revenue +113%
- SLSt Leonard's Ministries3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- LSLAKESIDE SINGERS INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -89%
- CMCOOL MINISTRIESone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -4%
- LRLegacy Reentry Foundation NFPgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +162%
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.
L'arche chicago provides a home life where people with and without intellectual disabilities live together as peers, create inclusive relationships and transform society to the greater public. l'arche chicago is an intentional community…
Residential Services, Inc. provides living options and related supports to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities of all ages.
Residential rehabilitation for mentally and emotionally disabled adults.
The mission of lakeshore is to enhance the ability of persons with mental and physical disabilities to live as independently as possible through acquisition of skills and utilization of services that promote each individual's self…
Ailbe Senior Housing Corporation provides housing and services for the elderly, to meet their physical, social, and psycho-social needs.
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
The mission is to provide quality care that reflects Christian love respect and concern for the aged of the church and community. The primary objective is to meet the physical mental and spiritual needs of the residents.
Inspiration Corporation's mission is to help people who are affected by homelessness and poverty, to improve their lives and increase self-sufficiency through the provision of social services, employment training and placement, and…
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses
Renaissance Social Services (RSSI) is a unique organization that connects those in need with housing that is safe, quality and affordable. After helping clients attain housing RSSI provides them with comprehensive, flexible, client focused…
To provide services and residential support to individuals with disabilities
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lester and Rosalie Anixter Center and the most unlike its peers is The Roberti Community House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 17 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 ASPIRE OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds Gorton Community Center ↗
- Who funds St Leonard's Ministries ↗
- Who funds ALPHA CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESIDE SINGERS INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Impacting Veterans Lives Inc dba Midwest Veterans Closet ↗
- Who funds COOL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Legacy Reentry Foundation NFP ↗
- Who funds LESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL EDUCATION AND RESCUE NFP ↗
- Who funds MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF LAKE FOREST ↗
- Who funds The Roberti Community House ↗
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: AbbVie Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · The Chicago Community Trust · The Lake County Community Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · The Buchanan Family Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Upscale Rummage Sale 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.