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Webb Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$318k
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$794kEducation$591kFood & Nutrition$303kInternational$261kHealth$251kReligion$200kHousing & Shelter$157kRecreation & Sports$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k35 grants · $167k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $151k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
OPAL HOUSE$10,000
SALVATION ARMY$10,000
CONNECTIONS TO CARE$8,500
LUTHERAN CHILD & FAM SVCS OF IL$7,000
EMBRACE GUATEMALA$6,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $5k → 11%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $5k → 11%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%MY JOYFUL HEART: $5k → 7%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%MY JOYFUL HEART: $5k → 7%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%ALICIA'S HOUSE: $5k → 7%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $5k → 14%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%ALICIAS HOUSE: $5k → 7%ELCA OUTREACH CENTER: $10k → 10%ALICIA'S HOUSE: $5k → 7%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%ELCA OUTREACH CENTER: $6k → 10%TURNING POINT: $5k → 6%HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROJECT: $5k → 7%ALICIA'S HOUSE: $5k → 7%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $5k → 14%ELCA OUTREACH CENTER: $5k → 10%TURNING POINT: $5k → 6%ALICIA'S HOUSE: $5k → 7%ELCA OUTREACH CENTER: $5k → 10%TURNING POINT: $5k → 6%COOL MINISTRIES: $8k → 8%ELCA OUTREACH CENTER: $5k → 10%TURNING POINT: $5k → 6%MY JOYFUL HEART: $5k → 7%COOL MINISTRIES: $5k → 8%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $5k → 14%ELCA OUTREACH CENTER: $5k → 10%TURNING POINT: $5k → 6%COOL MINISTRIES: $5k → 8%THE CENTER OF CONCERN: $8k → 14%WOMENS & CHILDRENS HORIZONS: $5k → 10%TURNING POINT: $5k → 6%MY JOYFUL HEART: $5k → 7%COOL MINISTRIES: $5k → 8%THE CENTER OF CONCERN: $6k → 14%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $10k → 21%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $10k → 21%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $10k → 21%CONNECTIONS TO CARE: $9k → 14%CONNECTIONS TO CARE: $8k → 14%THE HARBOUR INC: $8k → 14%THE HARBOUR INC: $6k → 14%THE HARBOUR INC: $6k → 14%THE HARBOUR INC: $6k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
WI
IA
IN
OH
CA
MO
VA
MD
TN
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of Webb Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Webb Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.9% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 70 repeat orgs$341k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
42

Total granted

$2.6M
$269k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+6%

Still filing today

67%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationInternationalHealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LW
    LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $100k · revenue +17%
  • TL
    THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $82k · revenue +80%
  • FI
    FIDALGO ISLAND ROTARY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • TI
    THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM
    one grant, 2017 · $12k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
Lakeside Community Committee

To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.

Human Services
3
House of the Good Shepherd

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…

Human Services
4
Cathedral Center Inc

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…

Religion
5
Respond Now

Respond now connects those in need with health, hunger, and housing services in the chicago southland.

Human Services
6
The Women's Center Inc

To provide safety, shelter and support to empower all impacted by domestic abuse, sexual violence, child abuse & trafficking.

Human Services
7
Catholic Charities Diocese of Gary

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…

Human Services
8
Shelter Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
9
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
10
Christian Social Services of Illinois

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.

Human Services
11
Sts Joachim and Ann Care Service

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…

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12
The Center for Women and Families Inc

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Compass Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/69
Grantees still filing
47/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LUTHERAN CHLD & FAM SVCS: $155,000 · OtherLUTHERAN CHLD & FAM SVCSTHE SALVATION ARMY: $112,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYVincent Gray Academy: $92,000 · OtherVincent Gray AcademyOPAL HOUSE: $80,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $78,500 · OtherLUTHERAN HOME: $75,000 · OtherOakland City University Foundation Inc: $70,000 · Other+70 more: $1,028,650 · Other+70 moreTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $82,000 · Human ServicesTHE LITTLE BIT FOUN…COOL MINISTRIES: $47,500 · Human ServicesCOOL MINISTRIESTHE CENTER OF CONCERN: $46,500 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER OF CONCE…ELCA OUTREACH CENTER: $46,000 · Human ServicesELCA OUTREACH CENTE…THE HARBOUR INC: $45,500 · Human ServicesTHE HARBOUR INCMY JOYFUL HEART NFP: $45,000 · Human ServicesMY JOYFUL HEART NFPTurning Point Inc: $37,000 · Human ServicesTurning Point IncWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF RACINE INC: $29,500 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S RESOURCE CE…ALICIA'S HOUSE INC: $27,500 · Human ServicesALICIA'S HOUSE INCNEW MOMS INC: $27,500 · Human ServicesNEW MOMS INCCONNECTIONS TO CARE: $21,000 · Human Services+9 more: $59,500 · Human Services+9 moreFIDALGO ISLAND ROTARY FOUNDATION: $74,900 · EducationFIDALGO I…LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS: $52,000 · EducationLOYOLA AC…CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $37,500 · EducationCENTRAL I…CHICAGOLAND LUTHERAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationCHICAGOLA…Alain Locke Charter School: $22,500 · EducationAlain Loc…ELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $12,500 · EducationMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL: $10,000 · Education+3 more: $12,500 · EducationLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $100,000 · InternationalLUTHERAN …DIRECT RELIEF: $67,000 · InternationalDIRECT RE…EMBRACE GUATEMALA: $47,500 · InternationalEMBRACE G…WELLS 4 WELLNESS INC: $21,000 · InternationalWELLS 4 W…CRYSTAL LAKE FOOD PANTRY INC: $56,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $37,000 · Food & NutritionPADS OF ELGIN INC: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterHome of the Sparrow Inc: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterTransitional Living Services Inc: $7,000 · Housing & ShelterDelta Gamma Center for Children with Vis: $51,500 · HealthNAMI OF MCHENRY COUNTY ILLINOIS: $10,000 · HealthCHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE: $5,000 · Health
Other$1,691,650Human Services$514,500Education$246,900International$235,500Food & Nutrition$93,000Housing & Shelter$72,000Health$66,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVincent Gray Academy: $92,000 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $82,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetOPAL HOUSE: $80,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetFIDALGO ISLAND ROTARY FOUNDATION: $74,900 over 8y, 18% of budgetOakland City University Foundation Inc: $70,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $67,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCRYSTAL LAKE FOOD PANTRY INC: $56,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetLOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS: $52,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetDelta Gamma Center for Children with Vis: $51,500 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetCOOL MINISTRIES: $47,500 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetEMBRACE GUATEMALA: $47,500 over 5y, 20% of budgetTHE CENTER OF CONCERN: $46,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetELCA OUTREACH CENTER: $46,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetTHE HARBOUR INC: $45,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMY JOYFUL HEART NFP: $45,000 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetPADS OF ELGIN INC: $45,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetAlmost Home: $42,500 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH: $39,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $37,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $37,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTurning Point Inc: $37,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetONE LOVE GLOBAL WELLNESS FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetNorthwest Community Music Academy: $30,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetAmalgamated Transit Union Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF RACINE INC: $29,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetALICIA'S HOUSE INC: $27,500 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetNEW MOMS INC: $27,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDISABLED PATRIOT FUND INC: $25,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetCHICAGOLAND LUTHERAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HEART ORGANIZATION: $25,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetAlain Locke Charter School: $22,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTIONS TO CARE: $21,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetWELLS 4 WELLNESS INC: $21,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE - ILLINOIS INC: $20,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetHome of the Sparrow Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARGARETS VILLAGE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLutherdale Bible Camp Inc: $14,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST ANDREWS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNAMI OF MCHENRY COUNTY ILLINOIS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSERVICE LEAGUE OF CRYSTAL LAKE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTONI TURCHI FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetNURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTransitional Living Services Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 COOL MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds EMBRACE GUATEMALA ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER OF CONCERN ↗
  • Who funds ELCA OUTREACH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE HARBOUR INC ↗
  • Who funds MY JOYFUL HEART NFP ↗
  • Who funds PADS OF ELGIN INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

George M Eisenberg Fo…Andrew and Alice Fisc…AbbVie FoundationUnited Way of Greater…St Louis Community Fo…Employees Community F…Pott FoundationNorthwestern Memorial…Baxter International …Willow Springs Charit…Blowitz-Ridgeway Foun…The a Montgomery Ward…
George M Eisenberg Foundation for CharitiesIL42.3× affinity18 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Webb Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Webb Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
25report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 119 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home