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Virgil Abloh Foundation

Virgil Abloh Foundation (the "Foundation") was established in 2022 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the state of Illinois.

$145k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232024.

Youth Development$94kCrime & Legal$74kPhilanthropy$74kArts & Culture$20kEducation$20kCommunity Improvement$10kPublic Benefit$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 9 grants below total $95,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $145,175 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $50,175 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.

$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$15,000
Chicago West Community Music Center$10,000
The Gray Matter Experience$10,000
Chicago Scholars Foundation$10,000
Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc$10,000
The Barack Obama Foundation$10,000
The National Museum of Mexican Art$10,000
After School Matters Inc$10,000
Little Black Pearl Workshop$10,000
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 (FY23–23, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $74k → 17%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.

Grants abroad, by region — $50k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Region not stated$50k · 100% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: To support two MA students studying a program within the School of Arts and Humanities and Humanities

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your 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
The Young People's Project Inc

The young people's project uses math literacy work to develop the abilities of elementary through high school students to succeed in school and in life.

Education
2
Lookingglass Theatre Company

Lookingglass theatre company is a national leader in the creation and presentation of innovative, cutting-edge theatrical work. lookingglass interweaves movement, circus arts and narrative in original and captivating ways. guided by an…

Arts & Culture
3
Children's Museum of Oak Park

To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.

Arts & Culture
4
Life Pieces to Masterpieces

Life pieces to masterpieces (lptm) is dedicated to the creative, academic, social-emotional, physical, and citizenship development of black boys and young men living in washington d.c.'s underserved 7th and 8th wards. founded in 1996, lptm…

Arts & Culture
5
YES2JOBS

The mission of yes2jobs is to advance economic opportunity for minority youth from under-resourced communities by turning access into achievement, and potential into lasting prosperity. yes2jobs empowers these youth to build generational…

Employment
6
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
7
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
8
Bloomingdale School of Music

To provide access to high-quality music education for anyone who seeks it, regardless of economic status, ability level, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religious affiliation.

Arts & Culture
9
Juxtaposition Arts Inc

Juxtaposition arts (jxta) is a visual art and design organization, rooted in north minneapolis for over 30 years. we expand access to creative education and career pathways by engaging emerging artisits in rigorous traning, mentorship and…

Youth Development
10
The Academy Group

Fueled by the belief that talent is ubiquitous, the academy group unlocks opportunity for young people from the nation's most resilient communities to realize their full potential as economic, educational, and social change agents.

Education
11
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
12
New World Symphony Inc

Prepares gifted graduates of prestigious music programs for successful careers in orchestras and ensembles.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is After School Matters Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Innocence Project Inc. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $74,167 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICAGUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION…THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $74,167 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INCROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $74,167 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY A…AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC — $10,000 · EducationAFTER SCHOOL M…THE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationTHE CHICAGO SC…THE GRAY MATTER EXPERIENCE INC — $10,000 · EducationTHE GRAY MATTE…LITTLE BLACK PEARL WORKSHOP — $10,000 · EducationLITTLE BLACK P…NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART FKA MEXICAN FINE ARTS CENTER MUSEUM — $10,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL M…THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK…Chicago West Community Music Center — $10,000 · Arts & CultureChicago We…Individual grant recipient — $15,000 · Other
Youth Development$84,167Human Services$74,167Philanthropy$74,167Education$40,000Arts & Culture$30,000Other$15,000

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 budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $74,167 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $74,167 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $74,167 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART FKA MEXICAN FINE ARTS CENTER MUSEUM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago West Community Music Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GRAY MATTER EXPERIENCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLITTLE BLACK PEARL WORKSHOP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Amazonsmile 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 Virgil Abloh Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Virgil Abloh Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Virgil Abloh Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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