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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 FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$21k
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Human Services$145kReligion$48kHousing & Shelter$36kEducation$34kArts & Culture$25kRecreation & Sports$19kCrime & Legal$10kHealth$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $78,700, the rows itemized in this filing. The $114,673 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $35,973 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $71k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$223k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Alpha Chi Omega Foundation$21,200
Midwest Veteran's Closet$10,000
Aspire$10,000
Park Ridge Presbyterian Church$10,000
St Leonard's Ministries$10,000
Church of St Mary$10,000
Animal Education & Rescue NFP$7,500
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%COOL Ministries: $15k → 8%Aspire of Illinois: $19k → 14%Aspire of Illinois: $10k → 14%Roberti House: $6k → 8%Aspire: $10k → 14%Mother's Trust Foundation: $23k → 8%Mother's Trust Foundation: $10k → 8%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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$235k · 8 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$235k
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+72%

Still filing today

75%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthReligionEducationCrime & LegalPublic BenefitOther
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

  • AO
    ASPIRE OF ILLINOIS
    3× · 2021–2024 · $39k · revenue +28%
  • GC
    Gorton Community Center
    2× · 2021–2022 · $33k · revenue +113%
  • SL
    St Leonard's Ministries
    3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • LS
    LAKESIDE SINGERS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -89%
  • CM
    COOL MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue 0%
  • LR
    Legacy Reentry Foundation NFPgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +169%
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
L'arche Chicago Inc

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…

Health
2
Residential Services Inc

Residential Services, Inc. provides living options and related supports to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities of all ages.

Health
3
Stepping Stones of Rockford Inc

Residential rehabilitation for mentally and emotionally disabled adults.

Human Services
4
Lakeshore Community Services Inc

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…

Human Services
5
Ailbe Senior Housing Corporation

Ailbe Senior Housing Corporation provides housing and services for the elderly, to meet their physical, social, and psycho-social needs.

Housing & Shelter
6
Lakeside Community Committee

To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.

Human Services
7
Apostolic Christian Home of Roanoke Illinois Inc

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.

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8
Inspiration Corporation

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…

Human Services
9
Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal
10
Depaul Community Services Inc

To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses

Health
11
Renaissance Social Services Inc

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…

Human Services
12
The Shared Living Collaborative Inc

To provide services and residential support to individuals with disabilities

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lester and Rosalie Anixter Center; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOUSE OF PEACE: $41,000 · OtherHOUSE OF PEACEST MARY PARISH & SCHOOL: $30,000 · OtherST MARY PARISH & SCHOOLLAKESIDE SINGERS INC: $25,000 · OtherLAKESIDE SINGERS INCPARK RIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CH: $10,000 · OtherPARK RIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHMOST BLESSED TRINITY: $7,500 · OtherMOST BLESSED TRINITYMONTESSORI SCHOOL OF LAKE FOREST: $6,785 · OtherLESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER: $7,500 · OtherLESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTERANIMAL EDUCATION AND RESCUE NFP: $7,500 · OtherANIMAL EDUCATION AND RESCUE NFPASPIRE OF ILLINOIS: $38,500 · Human ServicesASPIRE OF ILLINOISGorton Community Center: $32,500 · Human ServicesGorton Community CenterCOOL MINISTRIES: $15,000 · Human ServicesCOOL MINISTRIESThe Roberti Community House: $6,000 · Human ServicesThe Roberti Community HouseSt Leonard's Ministries: $30,000 · ReligionSt Leonard…ALPHA CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION INC: $27,453 · EducationALPHA CHI…GREAT LAKES ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION: $18,500 · HealthImpacting Veterans Lives Inc dba Midwest Veterans Closet: $17,500 · Public BenefitLegacy Reentry Foundation NFP: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$135,285Human Services$92,000Religion$30,000Education$27,453Health$18,500Public Benefit$17,500Crime & Legal$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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 FoundationJohn and Kathleen Sch…The Chicago Community…The Lake County Commu…Baxter International …The Buchanan Family F…Northwestern Memorial…Circle of Service Fou…United Way WorldwideThe Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Upscale Rummage Sale funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Upscale Rummage Sale. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 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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