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Vivo Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
130
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$525k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Education$12MYouth Development$5.9MHealth$3.6MHuman Services$2.3MReligion$1.8MPhilanthropy$1.7MCivil Rights$1.7MArts & Culture$1.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 130 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $124k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $878k
  • $50k–250k52 grants · $5.4M
  • $250k+12 grants · $4.1M
$45,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$183M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY COLLEGES OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION$525,000
SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM$500,000
CHICAGO SPECIAL PROJECTS GROUP$500,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$410,000
NATIONAL LOUIS UNIVERSITY$350,000
ENDEAVOR HEALTH CLINICAL OPERATIONS FKA NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM$275,000
NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS$260,000
NEW LIFE CENTERS OF CHICAGOLAND$257,500
RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$250,000
BRAVEN$250,000
ILLINOIS ACTION FOR CHILDREN$250,000
YOUTH GUIDANCE$250,000
CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING$200,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS$200,000
ONEGOAL$175,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $35k → 8%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $75k → 22%JUST PEOPLE: $3k → 9%LAKE COUNTY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $8k → 8%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $10k → 8%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $50k → 22%LAKE COUNTY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $3k → 8%AGAPE AIDS ORPHAN CARE: $2k → 7%GIRLS WHO CODE: $3k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $3k → 17%COMMUNITY YOUTH NETWORK: $3k → 8%WORKING CREDIT NFP: $63k → 14%WORKING CREDIT NFP: $40k → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $200k → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $155k → 14%CAROLE ROBERSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $150k → 14%CAROLE ROBERSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $150k → 14%SOUTH-EAST ASIA CENTER: $5k → 14%THE MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $155k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $95k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES INC: $75k → 14%FAMILY FOCUS: $100k → 14%NEW MOMS: $105k → 14%NEW MOMS: $100k → 14%NEW MOMS: $100k → 14%THE BLOC: $72k → 14%THE BLOC: $70k → 14%THE BLOC: $62k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME AND AID: $150k → 14%BRIGHTPOINT FKA CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILLINOIS DBA BRIGHTPOINT: $150k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME AND AID: $100k → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $50k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 14%C247 FATHER'S ARMS MINISTRIES: $10k → 14%C247 FATHER'S ARMS MINISTRIES: $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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 100% of Vivo 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, 95% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Vivo Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$29M · 118 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

118 repeat relationships — 87 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

118
52

Total granted

$29M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+15%

Still filing today

77%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • IA
    Illinois Action for Children
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +18%
  • BI
    BRAVEN INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +115%
  • NL
    National Louis University
    3× · 2022–2024 · $800k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • MR
    MICHAEL REESE HEALTH TRUST
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +4%
  • CO
    College of Lake County Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +180%
  • RU
    RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER SPECIAL FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $100k

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.

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Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
2
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
3
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
4
Chicago Collegiate Inc

To equip all students in grades six through twelve with the academic skills, intellectual habits and character traits to succeed in the college of their choice, strenghten their communities and change the world.

Education
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Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
6
Junior Achievement of Chicago

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

International
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Chicago Education Partnership

To create a school that dramatically transforms the lives of k-8 students and prepares them for success in college and in life through: the delivery of a rigorous and personalized academic program, a focus on holistic education, and the…

Education
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Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
9
Thrive Chicago Nfp

Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.

Human Services
10
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

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Communities in Schools of Chicago

Communities in schools of chicago (cis of chicago) connects social, health, and enrichment programs and services to chicago public school students. cis of chicago helps schools address students' most pressing needs by training them to…

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12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids First Chicago for Education and the most unlike its peers is Morgan Pressel Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity College Foundatio…Health Access Advocacy and …Ymca Youth DevelopmentJewish Community Organizati…Pregnancy Support ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community FoundationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Christian Youth CampsImmigrant Worker SupportCancer Support ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsFood Banks and PantriesDomestic Violence ServicesElementary Literacy TutoringYouth Development ServicesLgbtq+ Community SupportAddiction Recovery ServicesFaith-Based Social ServicesDevelopmental Disabilities …United Way AffiliatesEnvironmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyChristian Missionary Organi…School District FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Independent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%6%<5yr13%9%5–10yr18%24%10–20yr15%28%20–35yr14%17%35–55yr22%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%2%<5yr13%5%5–10yr18%20%10–20yr15%30%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr22%20%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%1/178
the rest of the field
12%
8,890/72,181

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

172 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. 172 of the 217 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)
170/172
Grantees still filing
104/172
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Illinois Action for Children — $1,150,000 · OtherIllinois Action for ChildrenCity Colleges of Chicago Foundation — $1,150,000 · OtherCity Colleges of Chicago FoundationUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO EDUCATION LAB — $975,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO EDUCATION LABNOBLE — $754,700 · OtherNOBLECOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS — $750,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLSSTART EARLY — $600,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $550,000 · OtherNETWORK FOR COLLEGE SUCCESS — $450,000 · Other+79 more — $6,239,108 · Other+79 moreNational Louis University — $800,000 · EducationNational Louis UniversityYouth Guidance — $750,000 · EducationYouth GuidanceKIDS FIRST CHICAGO FOR EDUCATION — $730,000 · EducationKIDS FIRST CHICAGO FOR EDUCATIONCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $600,000 · EducationCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUNDUniversity of Chicago — $560,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoTHE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — $525,000 · EducationTHE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION — $380,000 · EducationCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $375,000 · EducationChicago State Foundation — $335,000 · EducationPROJECT SYNCERE — $310,000 · Education+36 more — $3,881,500 · Education+36 moreBRAVEN INC — $1,007,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRAVEN INCONEGOAL — $600,000 · Youth DevelopmentONEGOALEMBARC INC — $600,000 · Youth DevelopmentEMBARC INCNew Life Centers of Chicagoland — $482,500 · Youth DevelopmentNew Life Ce…GARY COMER YOUTH CENTER INC — $165,000 · Youth Development+9 more — $338,000 · Youth Development+9 moreRush University Medical Center — $750,000 · HealthRush Univ…SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM — $675,000 · HealthSINAI HEA…Endeavor Health Clinical Operations — $600,000 · HealthEndeavor …Planned Parenthood of Illinois — $205,000 · HealthPlanned P…ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $125,000 · HealthMICHAEL REESE HEALTH TRUST — $100,000 · Health+10 more — $268,000 · Health+10 moreCarole Robertson Center for Learning — $655,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL — $400,000 · Human ServicesNEW MOMS INC — $305,000 · Human ServicesJewish Community Centers of Chicago — $250,000 · Human ServicesTHE BLOC — $204,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE — $125,000 · Human ServicesWorking Credit NFP — $102,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY FOCUS LEGACY — $100,000 · Human Services+11 more — $245,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $755,000 · PhilanthropyHighland Park Community Foundation — $231,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $150,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $125,000 · PhilanthropyThe Chicago Community Trust — $55,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $29,500 · PhilanthropyCHICAGO SPECIAL PROJECTS GROUP — $500,000 · Arts & CultureINGENUITY INCORPORATED CHICAGO — $262,500 · Arts & CultureSkyArt NFP — $172,500 · Arts & CultureOLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureINTONATION MUSIC WORKSHOP — $80,000 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC — $40,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $35,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$12,618,808Education$9,246,500Youth Development$3,192,500Health$2,723,000Human Services$2,387,000Philanthropy$1,345,500Arts & Culture$1,190,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetIllinois Action for Children — $1,150,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCity Colleges of Chicago Foundation — $1,150,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetBRAVEN INC — $1,007,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetNational Louis University — $800,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $755,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetYouth Guidance — $750,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRush University Medical Center — $750,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS FIRST CHICAGO FOR EDUCATION — $730,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM — $675,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCarole Robertson Center for Learning — $655,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetONEGOAL — $600,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $600,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetSTART EARLY — $600,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEndeavor Health Clinical Operations — $600,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEMBARC INC — $600,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $560,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — $525,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCHICAGO SPECIAL PROJECTS GROUP — $500,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetNew Life Centers of Chicagoland — $482,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL — $400,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE CHICAGO INC — $400,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION — $380,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $375,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetNorthwestern University — $365,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChicago State Foundation — $335,000 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetPROJECT SYNCERE — $310,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetNEW MOMS INC — $305,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP — $280,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY — $275,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINGENUITY INCORPORATED CHICAGO — $262,500 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS — $260,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Partnership for College Completion — $250,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetJewish Community Centers of Chicago — $250,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHighland Park Community Foundation — $231,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetNorth Chicago Community Partners — $230,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois — $205,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BLOC — $204,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetLEADING EDUCATORS INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLATINO POLICY FORUM — $200,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetNEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP — $200,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetINTRINSIC SCHOOLS — $185,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSURGE INSTITUTE — $175,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSkyArt NFP — $172,500 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetGARY COMER YOUTH CENTER INC — $165,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCHICAGO ABORTION FUND — $160,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetEVANSTON SCHOLARS — $155,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED — $150,000 over 3y, 1.5% 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.

  • Who funds Illinois Action for Children ↗
  • Who funds City Colleges of Chicago Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BRAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds National Louis University ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds Youth Guidance ↗
  • Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds KIDS FIRST CHICAGO FOR EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds Carole Robertson Center for Learning ↗
  • Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds START EARLY ↗
  • Who funds Endeavor Health Clinical Operations ↗
  • Who funds EMBARC INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds THE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO SPECIAL PROJECTS GROUP ↗
  • Who funds New Life Centers of Chicagoland ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL ↗
  • Who funds HOPE CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds Chicago State Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT SYNCERE ↗
  • Who funds NEW MOMS INC ↗
  • Who funds ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP ↗
  • Who funds ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds INGENUITY INCORPORATED CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗

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.

Circle of Service Fou…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Robert R McCormick Fo…Polk Bros Foundation …Fulk Family Foundatio…The Chicago Community…Jewish Federation of …John and Kathleen Sch…Lloyd a Fry FoundationThe Joyce FoundationUnited Way of Metropo…Finnegan Family Found…
Circle of Service FoundationIL83.4× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Circle of Service Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Fulk Family Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Finnegan Family 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 Vivo 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 · 90%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
45report 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Vivo Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Vivo 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 217 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines