· Private foundation
Webb Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $167k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $151k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | $20,000 |
| LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | $20,000 |
| LUTHERAN CHILD & FAM SVCS OF IL | $15,000 |
| LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | $15,000 |
| WELLS 4 WELLNESS | $11,000 |
| OPAL HOUSE | $10,000 |
| LUTHERAN CHILD & FAMILY SVCS OF IL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | $10,000 |
| SERVICE LEAGUE OF CRYSTAL LAKE | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| OPAL HOUSE | $10,000 |
| CONNECTIONS TO CARE | $8,500 |
| LUTHERAN CHILD & FAM SVCS OF IL | $7,000 |
| EMBRACE GUATEMALA | $6,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $473k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Webb 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LWLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC3× · 2023–2025 · $100k · revenue +18%
- TLTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $82k · revenue +80%
- FIFIDALGO ISLAND ROTARY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2017 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $20k
- TITHE IMPOSSIBLE DREAMone grant, 2017 · $12k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
House of Good Shepherd serves with love and compassion women and children affected by domestic violence by offering a safe place with opportunities for emotional, educational and spiritual growth, giving hope and continued support for a…
Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. the cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or…
Respond now connects those in need with health, hunger, and housing services in the chicago southland.
To provide safety, shelter and support to empower all impacted by domestic abuse, sexual violence, child abuse & trafficking.
Catholic charities provides and advocates for the physical, emotional, and social needs of the poor and vulnerable. we focus our attention on people (individuals and families) who live in poverty and are marginalized in other ways. our…
Shelter's mission is to end the cycle of child abuse by providing a comprehensive network of support to children, their families, and our community to create safe, health, and nurturing homes.
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…
Caritas family solutions strengthens the social and emotional well-being of individuals and families in order to create healthy relationships, loving homes and strong communities.
To provide integrated services such as financial assistance, case management, and referrals to families and individuals of all ages to reduce the propensity for homelessness, abuse and neglect, and to provide the tools to achieve…
To help victims of intimate partner abuse or sexual violence become survivors through supportive services, community education and cooperative partnerships that foster hope, promote self-sufficiency and rebuild lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Compass Inc and the most unlike its peers is Amalgamated Transit Union 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.
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 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
69 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. 69 of the 119 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds Vincent Gray Academy ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPAL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FIDALGO ISLAND ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oakland City University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL LAKE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds Delta Gamma Center for Children with Vis ↗
- Who funds EMBRACE GUATEMALA ↗
- Who funds COOL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER OF CONCERN ↗
- Who funds ELCA OUTREACH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE HARBOUR INC ↗
- Who funds PADS OF ELGIN INC ↗
- Who funds MY JOYFUL HEART NFP ↗
- Who funds Almost Home ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Turning Point Inc ↗
- Who funds ONE LOVE GLOBAL WELLNESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northwest Community Music Academy ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Transit Union Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF RACINE INC ↗
- Who funds ALICIA'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MOMS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · AbbVie Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Pott Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Baxter International Foundation · Willow Springs Charitable Trust Jenny B Stoddard Trustee · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · The a Montgomery Ward 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 Webb 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.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Webb Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Webb 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.