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Upscale Rummage Sale

Provide monetary donations to 14+ charities benefiting > 1,000 individuals including disabled children & adults, underpriviledged children and abused women

$115k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Itemized grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
43%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$79k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$21,200
Organizations funded a year
7 to 8
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$223k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Upscale Rummage Sale funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
ReligionEducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$79k29%
FY20237$68k43%
FY20227$66k57%
FY20218$118kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Human Services$145kReligion$48kHousing & Shelter$36kEducation$34kArts & Culture$25kRecreation & Sports$19kCrime & Legal$10kHealth$8kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
House of Peace$41,0003n/a
Aspire of Illinois$38,50030%
Gorton Community Center$32,50021%
St Mary Parish & School$30,0003n/a
St Leonard's Ministries$30,00030%
Alpha Chi Omega Foundation Inc$27,45320%
Lakeside Singers Inc$25,000116%
Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association$18,50021%
Impacting Veterans Lives Inc dba Midwest Veterans Closet$17,50020%
Cool Ministries$15,00011%
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All grantees of Upscale Rummage Sale by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
House of Peace$41,0003n/a
Aspire of Illinois$38,50030%
Gorton Community Center$32,50021%
St Mary Parish & School$30,0003n/a
St Leonard's Ministries$30,00030%
Alpha Chi Omega Foundation Inc$27,45320%
Lakeside Singers Inc$25,000116%
Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association$18,50021%
Impacting Veterans Lives Inc dba Midwest Veterans Closet$17,50020%
Cool Ministries$15,00011%
Legacy Reentry Foundation NFP$10,00012%
Park Ridge Presbyterian Ch$10,0001n/a
Lester and Rosalie Anixter Center$7,50010%
Most Blessed Trinity$7,5001n/a
Animal Education and Rescue Nfp$7,50013%
Montessori School of Lake Forest$6,78510%
The Roberti Community House$6,00011%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Upscale Rummage Sale supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAspire of Illinois: $38,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGorton Community Center: $32,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSt Leonard's Ministries: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAlpha Chi Omega Foundation Inc: $27,453 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLakeside Singers Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetGreat Lakes Adaptive Sports Association: $18,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetImpacting Veterans Lives Inc dba Midwest Veterans Closet: $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCool Ministries: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLegacy Reentry Foundation NFP: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLester and Rosalie Anixter Center: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Education and Rescue Nfp: $7,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMontessori School of Lake Forest: $6,785 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Roberti Community House: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

AbbVie FoundationIL17.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Upscale Rummage Sale

How much does Upscale Rummage Sale give?
Upscale Rummage Sale reported 7 itemized grants totaling $78,700, out of $114,673 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 8 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Upscale Rummage Sale fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (44%), Religion (14%), Housing & Shelter (11%).
Who are Upscale Rummage Sale's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: House of Peace ($41k), Aspire of Illinois ($39k), Gorton Community Center ($33k).
Does Upscale Rummage Sale fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Upscale Rummage Sale?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy, The Chicago Community Trust.
Where is Upscale Rummage Sale based?
Upscale Rummage Sale is based in IL.

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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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