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Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
64
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0177% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.

Health$4.1MHuman Services$3.2MHousing & Shelter$1.7MEducation$758kCommunity Improvement$525kCrime & Legal$481kCivil Rights$425kReligion$239kEmployment$130kOther$3.9M
02FY2025 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $537k
  • $50k–250k46 grants · $2.8M
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$65M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS$100,000
THE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE$100,000
SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW$100,000
THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$100,000
REFUGEEONE$89,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOIS$80,000
EQUAL HOPE$75,000
HEALTH & MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP$75,000
COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP OF ILLINOIS$70,000
ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO$70,000
CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS$70,000
NOURISHING HOPE$65,000
BEDS PLUS INC$60,000
Individual grant recipient$60,000
DEBORAH'S PLACE$60,000
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $50k → 14%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $50k → 14%MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 14%360 YOUTH SERVICES: $50k → 7%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $40k → 14%360 YOUTH SERVICES: $40k → 7%THE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $100k → 14%THE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $100k → 14%THE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $55k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $40k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $40k → 14%FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $50k → 14%FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $50k → 14%YOUTH OUTREACH SERVICES: $40k → 14%SGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 14%GREENLIGHT FAMILY SERVICES: $40k → 14%YOUTH OUTREACH SERVICES: $40k → 14%CRISIS CENTER FOR SOUTH SUBURBIA: $50k → 14%SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $50k → 14%BETWEEN FRIENDS: $40k → 14%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $55k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $50k → 14%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $50k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $50k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $50k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $50k → 14%ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $42k → 14%ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO: $70k → 14%ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO: $70k → 14%INDO-AMERICAN CENTER: $50k → 14%CENTER ON HALSTED: $50k → 14%NEW MOMS INC: $55k → 14%NEW LIFE-KNEW SOLUTIONS: $50k → 14%NEW MOMS INC: $50k → 14%NEW MOMS INC: $50k → 14%SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $60k → 14%CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN: $50k → 14%SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $50k → 14%FAMILY FOCUS: $40k → 14%SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $50k → 14%MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $55k → 14%GADS HILL CENTER: $50k → 14%MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $50k → 14%MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $50k → 14%JOURNEY'S COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $50k → 14%THE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $55k → 14%HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 14%THE HARBOUR INC: $50k → 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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 90% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.6% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 92 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

92 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

92
45

Total granted

$13M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+9%

Still filing today

88%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $608k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther

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

  • HA
    HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP
    5× · 2021–2025 · $460k · revenue +42%
  • IA
    ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF FREE & CHARITABLE CLINICS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $350k · revenue ×15 · 31% of their budget
  • IC
    ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $325k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • T3
    Tapestry 360 Health
    one grant, 2023 · $145k · revenue +7%
  • EH
    ESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERS
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +10%
  • CS
    Chicago South Side Birth Center
    one grant, 2023 · $97k

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
Chicago Family Health Center Inc

Chicago family health center will promote health, work to prevent disease and provide treatment through the delivery of quality, accessible primary healtcare that is culturally sensitive, affordable, and responsive to community and…

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3
Chicago Women's Health Center

The organization is committed to the mission of facilitating the empowerment of women, trans people, and young people by providing access to health care and health education in a respectful environment where people pay what they can afford.

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4
Child Link Inc

Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…

Human Services
5
Center for Family Services

Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…

Human Services
6
Chicago House & Social Service Agency

Provides housing and support services to individuals and families impacted by hiv/aids

Health
7
Illinois Partners for Human Service

Illinois Partners for Human Service's primary activities are (1) strengthening human services in communities throughout Illinois by building a unified human services sector; (2) working with leaders, the public, and others engaged in the…

Human Services
8
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
9
Live Free Chicago

Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…

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10
Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill

Founded in 1883, brightpoint (formerly known as children's home & aid) is a leading statewide organization supporting families so children can thrive.

Human Services
11
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
12
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation
Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Zion Benton Children's Service. 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 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%3%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%12%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr15%40%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr18%13%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr15%44%35–55yr16%13%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/134
the rest of the field
16%
4,999/31,376

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.

05the grantee network

131 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. 131 of the 150 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)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
129/131
Grantees still filing
89/131
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP — $459,500 · HealthHEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RES…HEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH — $290,000 · HealthHEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTHAIDS Foundation of Chicago — $250,000 · HealthAIDS Foundation of ChicagoPlanned Parenthood of Illinois — $250,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of IllinoisALLIANCECHICAGO — $195,000 · HealthRESILIENCE — $170,000 · HealthOLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC — $160,000 · HealthSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM — $148,500 · Health+28 more — $2,160,436 · Health+28 moreEVERTHRIVE ILLINOIS — $250,000 · OtherEVERTHRIVE ILLINOISLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER — $200,000 · OtherBEDS PLUS INC — $200,000 · OtherANEW BUILDING BEYOND VIOLENCE AND ABUSE — $170,000 · OtherRosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science — $160,000 · OtherILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS — $325,000 · OtherILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT A…REFUGEEONE — $239,000 · Other+47 more — $3,137,057 · Other+47 moreTHE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $310,000 · Human ServicesTHE NETWORK ADVOCATING …SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS — $210,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH SUBURBAN PADSTHE NIGHT MINISTRY — $200,000 · Human ServicesTHE NIGHT MINISTRYMUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION — $175,000 · Human ServicesMUJERES LATINAS EN ACCI…NEW MOMS INC — $155,000 · Human ServicesEthiopian Community Association of Chicago Inc — $140,000 · Human ServicesJUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION — $140,000 · Human ServicesGREENLIGHT FAMILY SERVICES — $136,000 · Human ServicesOPTIONS FOR YOUTH — $115,000 · Human ServicesBETWEEN FRIENDS — $110,000 · Human ServicesIndo-American Center — $110,000 · Human Services+23 more — $1,360,000 · Human Services+23 moreCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $246,600 · Housing & ShelterCONNECTIONS …CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS — $240,000 · Housing & ShelterCHICAGO COAL…DEBORAH'S PLACE — $221,600 · Housing & ShelterDEBORAH'S PL…HOUSING FORWARD — $215,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING FORW…NORTH SIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES — $210,000 · Housing & ShelterNORTH SIDE H…HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC — $185,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING OPPO…WINGS PROGRAM INC — $130,000 · Housing & ShelterWINGS PROGRA…THE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC — $100,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE BOULEVAR…ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS IN SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY — $80,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more — $65,000 · Housing & ShelterILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF FREE & CHARITABLE CLINICS — $350,000 · EducationYouth Guidance — $150,000 · EducationPARTNERSHIP FOR A CONNECTED ILLINOIS INC — $100,000 · EducationPRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN — $60,000 · EducationMELANATED MIDWIVES NFP — $50,000 · EducationHOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES — $48,000 · EducationEnlace Chicago — $200,000 · Community ImprovementCHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC — $135,000 · Community ImprovementBECOME INC — $100,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $50,000 · Community ImprovementILLINOIS UNIDOS — $40,000 · Community ImprovementSHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW — $316,000 · Crime & LegalCHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $105,000 · Crime & LegalJAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY — $30,000 · Crime & LegalZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER — $30,000 · Crime & Legal
Health$4,083,436Other$4,681,057Human Services$3,161,000Housing & Shelter$1,693,200Education$758,000Community Improvement$525,000Crime & Legal$481,000

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 budgetHEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP — $459,500 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF FREE & CHARITABLE CLINICS — $350,000 over 5y, 31% of budgetILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS — $325,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW — $316,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTHE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $310,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetHEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH — $290,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAIDS Foundation of Chicago — $250,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEVERTHRIVE ILLINOIS — $250,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois — $250,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $246,600 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS — $240,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetREFUGEEONE — $239,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetDEBORAH'S PLACE — $221,600 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetHOUSING FORWARD — $215,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH SIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES — $210,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetSOUTH SUBURBAN PADS — $210,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER — $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY — $200,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBEDS PLUS INC — $200,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetEnlace Chicago — $200,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetALLIANCECHICAGO — $195,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC — $185,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION — $175,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetANEW BUILDING BEYOND VIOLENCE AND ABUSE — $170,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetRESILIENCE — $170,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetOLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC — $160,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetRosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science — $160,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MOMS INC — $155,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetINFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO — $150,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetYouth Guidance — $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM — $148,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTapestry 360 Health — $145,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEthiopian Community Association of Chicago Inc — $140,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetJUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION — $140,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetGREENLIGHT FAMILY SERVICES — $136,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC — $135,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHealing to Action — $130,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetWINGS PROGRAM INC — $130,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEqual Hope — $125,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetPrimeCare Community Health Inc — $125,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMICHAEL REESE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLa Rabida Children's Hospital — $120,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNOURISHING HOPE — $120,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO — $120,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP — $120,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MAVEN PROJECT — $119,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetOPTIONS FOR YOUTH — $115,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetPILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH — $110,000 over 2y, 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…Blowitz-Ridgeway Foun…Circle of Service Fou…Polk Bros Foundation …Arie and Ida Crown Me…Michael Reese Health …The Chicago Community…George M Eisenberg Fo…Northwestern Memorial…Chicago Foundation fo…Healthy Communities F…Grant Hospital of Chi…
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL116.3× affinity62 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 · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Michael Reese Health Trust · The Chicago Community Trust · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Chicago Foundation for Women · Healthy Communities Foundation · Grant Hospital of Chicago D/B/A Grant Healthcare 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 Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%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
    43report 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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna 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 150 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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