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Usg Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$786k
Granted FY2025still arriving
267
Grants FY2025still arriving
40
States reached
$88k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$724kHealth$707kHousing & Shelter$630kHuman Services$528kYouth Development$351kPublic Safety & Disaster$327kPublic Benefit$206kArts & Culture$201kOther$0
02FY2025 · 267 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k252 grants · $413k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $185k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $188k
$500
Median grant
40
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP CORPORATION$87,535
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC$50,000
American Red Cross$50,000
Lumity$25,000
Youth Conservation Corps$25,000
Career Transistions Center of Chicago$15,000
Preservation Foundation of the Lake County Forest Preserves$15,000
MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE$15,000
YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO$15,000
Communities In Schools of Chicago$15,000
Easter Seals DuPage and the Fox Valley Region$15,000
South Suburban PADS$15,000
Wreaths Across America$10,000
Naperville Heritage Society$10,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters$10,000
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 (FY20–25, $415k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Good Samaritan Services: $5k → 6%INSPIRED HEARTS AND HANDS INC: $5k → 9%Patriot Paws Service Dogs: $6k → 5%MidlothianSenior Citizens Center Inc: $5k → 9%Boysville Inc: $5k → 16%Play Learn and Grow Inc: $5k → 14%Life Unlimited Inc: $5k → 8%Linus Project: $5k → 8%Knoxville Family Justice Center: $5k → 12%Maryfield Inc: $15k → 16%The Homer Fund: $15k → 12%Care for Real: $6k → 14%Red Wing Ignite: $5k → 9%Legacies Alive: $5k → 10%Patriot Paws Service Dogs: $5k → 5%ECHO of Brandon Inc: $5k → 13%Beauty and the Beast Fund: $5k → 16%GATHERING PLACE: $5k → 17%Pioneer Center for Human Services: $5k → 6%Cornerstone of Beaver County: $5k → 10%Patriot Paws Service Dogs: $5k → 5%BRUSHY CREEK AREA HONOR FLIGHT INC: $5k → 13%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $5k → 9%Brooke Hancock Family Resource Newwork Inc: $5k → 12%Project Noelle: $5k → 11%Dallas Childrens Advocacy Center: $5k → 14%Tri-City Community Development Corp: $5k → 21%Drink At The Well: $5k → 19%Camp Casey: $5k → 8%Childrens Home Society of Washington: $5k → 9%Dallas Children's Advocacy Center: $5k → 14%CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS SE: $5k → 10%BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $5k → 16%CORNERSTONE SERVICE INC: $5k → 7%Clothed by Faith Inc: $5k → 16%Eastmont Community Center: $10k → 14%DePelchin Children's Cente: $5k → 16%Eastmont Community Center: $5k → 14%City Help Inc of Phoenix: $5k → 11%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDRENS HOME INC: $5k → 11%Cradles to Crayons: $6k → 14%YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $17k → 14%YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $15k → 14%YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $15k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $15k → 14%South Suburban PADS: $15k → 14%South Suburban PADS: $10k → 14%South Suburban PADS: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 235 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

235 repeat relationships: 120 still active in FY2025, 115 since wound down; 121 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

235
516

Total granted

$3.0M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+10%

Still filing today

71%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $282k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • NM
    National Merit Scholarship Corporation
    5× · 2021–2025 · $371k · revenue +18%
  • L
    LUMITY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $153k · revenue +143%
  • MH
    MERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT
    5× · 2020–2024 · $126k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • NM
    NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP CORPORAT
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -50%
  • NS
    NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +25%
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.

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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
2
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
4
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
5
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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6
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
7
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
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University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
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Northern Illinois Blood Bank Inc D/B/a Rock River Valley Blood Center

Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.

Health
10
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
11
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Voices of the Abused. 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

575 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. 575 of the 886 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)
88
Early backer (in before they grew)
562/575
Grantees still filing
352/575
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

American Red Cross: $270,466 · OtherAmerican Red CrossHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL: $180,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONALCHICAGOLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY JAMES HARRIS TREASURER: $100,375 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $95,889 · OtherYOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS: $80,350 · OtherCAREER TRANSITIONS CENTER OF CHICAGO: $110,000 · Other+121 more: $1,288,261 · Other+121 moreNational Merit Scholarship Corporation: $370,515 · EducationNational Merit …+13 more: $122,188 · Education+13 moreYWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $68,525 · Human ServicesYWCA METR…SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $40,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH SUB…Maryfield Inc: $27,500 · Human ServicesMaryfield…PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $16,000 · Human ServicesTHDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund: $15,000 · Human ServicesEastmont Community Center: $15,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC: $11,125 · Human ServicesMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $10,555 · Human Services+17 more: $100,713 · Human Services+17 moreEASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY REGION: $85,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $46,342 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $26,562 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $15,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC: $10,150 · HealthC A R E Clinic: $10,000 · Health24 Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Health+13 more: $69,400 · HealthNAPERVILLE HERITAGE SOCIETY: $60,000 · Arts & CultureALL STARS PROJECT INC: $30,100 · Arts & CultureMUSIC OF THE BAROQUE: $22,500 · Arts & CultureDUPAGE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $15,100 · Arts & CultureKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $10,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Children's Museum: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $10,225 · Arts & CultureMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT: $126,081 · Housing & ShelterLODI HOUSE: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PROMISE INC: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterLUMITY: $152,820 · Science & Tech
Other$2,125,341Education$492,703Human Services$316,418Health$272,454Arts & Culture$157,925Housing & Shelter$156,081Science & Tech$152,820

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Merit Scholarship Corporation: $370,515 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLUMITY: $152,820 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT: $126,081 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCAREER TRANSITIONS CENTER OF CHICAGO: $110,000 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetCHICAGOLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY JAMES HARRIS TREASURER: $100,375 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $95,889 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY REGION: $85,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS: $80,350 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetYWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $68,525 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNAPERVILLE HERITAGE SOCIETY: $60,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $56,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $46,342 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetALL STARS PROJECT INC: $30,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF THE LAKE COUNTY FOREST PRESERVES: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSWEETWATER HOUSE OF PEACE: $30,000 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetMaryfield Inc: $27,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO: $27,175 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $26,562 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $23,754 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC OF THE BAROQUE: $22,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGO UNITED: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $16,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS IN THE GAME NFP: $15,375 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORS UNITED-MINNESOTA: $15,195 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetDUPAGE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $15,100 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $15,052 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLODI HOUSE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTEAM VIAC: $15,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetEastmont Community Center: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWreaths Across America: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEastern Illinois University Foundation: $12,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetORANGE CRUSH S A C: $12,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC: $11,125 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $10,555 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC: $10,150 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,128 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNo Frills Fun Run: $10,025 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetSOCIETY ITALIAN-AMERICAN BUSINESS: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCARE FOR REAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 National Merit Scholarship Corporation ↗
  • Who funds LUMITY ↗
  • Who funds MERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT ↗
  • Who funds CAREER TRANSITIONS CENTER OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGOLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY JAMES HARRIS TREASURER ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
  • Who funds EASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY REGION ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS ↗
  • Who funds YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds NAPERVILLE HERITAGE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS ↗
  • Who funds ALL STARS PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF THE LAKE COUNTY FOREST PRESERVES ↗
  • Who funds SWEETWATER HOUSE OF PEACE ↗
  • Who funds Maryfield Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds THE MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO UNITED ↗
  • Who funds PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS IN THE GAME NFP ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS UNITED-MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds DUPAGE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗

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.

George M Eisenberg Foundation for CharitiesIL37.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Circle of Service Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Dr Scholl Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Cme Group Community Foundation F/K/A Nymex Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · First Bank Chicago Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation

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 Usg Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Usg Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 110%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Ellie Fund Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Family Promise Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
63report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Usg Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 886 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-PF 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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