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· Private foundation

Uw Harry S Black & Allon Fuller

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$228k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$30k
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 FY2020–2025.

Health$529kHuman Services$230kCivil Rights$135kArts & Culture$90kEducation$68kFood & Nutrition$48kInternational$45kScience & Tech$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $160k
$7,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL CTR$30,000
ADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION$30,000
RICHMOND UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$25,000
ALLIANCE OF RESIDENT THEATRES (ART)$20,000
SEARCH AND CARE$15,000
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS$10,000
ST BERNARD HOSPITAL & HEALTH$10,000
ST ANTHONY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITITATIVES$10,000
PARKINSON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION$9,000
CITY SCHOOLS SPORTS ASSOCIATION$7,500
LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER$6,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$5,000
MERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT$5,000
CENTER ON HALSTED$5,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $230k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION: $30k → 17%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $10k → 7%ADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION: $20k → 17%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $5k → 7%ADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION: $20k → 17%ADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION: $15k → 17%ADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION: $15k → 17%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $5k → 14%ADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION: $15k → 17%NIGHT MINISTRY: $5k → 14%RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $10k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $5k → 14%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $10k → 14%CENTER ON HALSTED: $10k → 14%SEARCH AND CARE: $15k → 17%CENTER ON HALSTED: $5k → 14%SEARCH AND CARE: $15k → 17%CHICAGO COMMONS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%CHICAGO COMMONS ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%CHICAGO COMMONS ASSOCIATION: $5k → 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.

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$888k · 25 repeat orgs$276k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
17

Total granted

$888k
$195k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+16%

Still filing today

76%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k 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
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • ADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +45%
  • SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $45k · revenue +177%
  • TD
    THEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $45k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH PRACTICE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF HARLEM HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • TD
    THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $19k · revenue +22%

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
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
2
Infant Welfare Society of Chicago

Infant welfare society of chicago (iws) (d/b/a iws family health) provides quality medical, dental and behavioral health services for the health, physical and mental development of children and their families in the chicagoland community.

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3
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
4
Heartland Alliance Health

Heartland alliance health's mission is to transform healthcare for the most vulnerable, particularly people experiencing homelessness, mental illness or addictions, or struggling with multiple chronic illnesses, improving health for all…

Health
5
Heartland Community Health Clinic D/B/a Heartland Health Services

Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.

Health
6
Community Care Health Plan Inc

Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.

Health
7
Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center Inc

Harvard street neighborhood health center serves as the primary health resource to our community, through the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered medical care.

Health
8
Sinai Health System

Sinai health system's mission is to improve the health of the individuals and communities it serves.

Health
9
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
10
Housing Works Services Inc

Housing works services inc. is a federally qualified health care center (fqhc) providing a broad range of health services to persons living with aids, hiv-related illnesses and chronic diseases. in addition, housing works services inc.…

Housing & Shelter
11
Spectrum Health Services Inc

To improve the health status of patients and the residents living in the communities surrounding the organization's delivery sites through an organized, comprehensive program of primary care delivery, health education and health-related…

Health
12
Neighborhealth Corporation

Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%5%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr14%49%35–55yr14%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%2%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr19%30%20–35yr14%49%35–55yr14%17%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
2/40
the rest of the field
14%
7,117/51,653

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

40 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. 40 of the 53 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/40
Grantees still filing
22/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DISABILITY RIGHTS ADVOCATES — $110,000 · OtherDISABILITY RIGHTS ADVOCATESST ANTHONY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $62,000 · OtherST ANTHONY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINTREPID SEA AIR & SPACE MUSEUM — $45,000 · OtherINTREPID SEA AIR & SPACE MUSEUMAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago — $40,000 · OtherAccess Living of Metropolitan ChicagoALLIANCE OF RESIDENT THEATRES (ART) — $40,000 · OtherALLIANCE OF RESIDENT THEATRES (ART)CHICAGO FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC — $35,000 · OtherSECOND SENSE — $32,000 · OtherRICHMOND UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER — $25,000 · OtherSAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC — $45,000 · OtherSAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC+19 more — $225,500 · Other+19 moreADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION INC — $115,000 · Human ServicesADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSO…SEARCH AND CARE INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesSEARCH AND CARE INCChicago Commons Association — $20,000 · Human ServicesChicago Commons Asso…THE NIGHT MINISTRY — $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE NIGHT MINISTRYAlmost Home Kids — $15,000 · Human ServicesAlmost Home KidsCenter on Halsted — $15,000 · Human ServicesCenter on HalstedMaryville Academy — $10,000 · Human ServicesRenaissance Social Services Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $98,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTE…HADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $20,000 · EducationHADLEY INS…BETANCES HEALTH CENTER — $22,500 · HealthBETANCES …CENTER FOR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH PRACTICE INC — $20,000 · HealthCENTER FO…VOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC — $15,000 · HealthVOICES OF…FOUNDATION FOR HEARING AND SPEECH RESOURCES — $10,000 · HealthFOUNDATIO…Near North Health Service Corporation — $10,000 · HealthNear Nort…PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 · HealthPARKINSON…Erie Family Health Center Inc — $5,000 · HealthIMERMAN ANGELS — $5,000 · HealthHEALTHCARE ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS INC — $5,000 · HealthPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC — $57,500 · Youth DevelopmentCity Schools Sports Association Inc — $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC — $45,000 · Arts & CultureTELLIN TALES THEATRE — $5,000 · Arts & CultureMEALS ON WHEELS CHICAGO — $43,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS — $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$659,500Human Services$230,000Education$118,000Health$101,500Youth Development$65,000Arts & Culture$50,000Food & Nutrition$48,000

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 budgetADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION INC — $115,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $98,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC — $57,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC — $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS CHICAGO — $43,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago — $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND SENSE — $32,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSEARCH AND CARE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBETANCES HEALTH CENTER — $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Commons Association — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH PRACTICE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC — $19,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER — $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPrimeCare Community Health Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAlmost Home Kids — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCenter on Halsted — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMcDermott Center — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaryville Academy — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR HEARING AND SPEECH RESOURCES — $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetRenaissance Social Services Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNear North Health Service Corporation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetErie Family Health Center Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMERMAN ANGELS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTHCARE ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAchilles International Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

United Way of Metropo…The Chicago Community…Polk Bros Foundation …AIDS Foundation of Ch…The a Montgomery Ward…George M Eisenberg Fo…Washington Square Hea…Grant Hospital of Chi…Helen V Brach Foundat…Robert R McCormick Fo…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Circle of Service Fou…
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL29.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · AIDS Foundation of Chicago · The a Montgomery Ward Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Washington Square Health Foundation · Grant Hospital of Chicago D/B/A Grant Healthcare Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation

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 Uw Harry S Black & Allon Fuller 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%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report 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

    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 53 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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