· Private foundation
Whirled Peas Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $124k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
- $250k+1 grant · $305k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSIC THEATER WORKS | $305,000 |
| EVANSTON ANIMAL SHELTER ASSN | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| EVANSTON REBUILDING WAREHOUSE (ERW) | $75,000 |
| CURT'S CAFE | $50,000 |
| FUSE THEATER ENSEMBLE | $34,000 |
| STAND TALL INTERNATIONAL | $30,000 |
| THE WASTESHED MATCH FUND | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOIS | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| EVANSTON PRIDE | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO ABORTION FUND | $5,000 |
| CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN | $5,000 |
| SEASON OF CONCERN CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| TREVOR PROJECT | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your 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.
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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $568k 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
- CCCURT'S CAFE2× · 2020–2024 · $105k · revenue +111%
- FTFuse Theatre Ensemble2× · 2020–2024 · $44k · revenue +328%
- PPPlanned Parenthood of Illinois2× · 2020–2024 · $17k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- MBMY BLOCK MY HOODone grant, 2020 · $10k
- FPFORREST POWELL FOUNDATION (WE PROGRAM)one grant, 2020 · $5k
- JBJAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +157%
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.
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…
Planned Parenthood Illinois Action (PPIA) is an independent, nonpartisan, 501(c)(4) not-for-profit organization formed as the advocacy and political arm of Planned Parenthood in Illinois. PPIA engages in educational and electoral activity,…
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
CASA of Cook County's vision is to protect abused and neglected children by providing them in court, a safe and permanent home, and an opportunity to grow, learn and thrive.
Paws and Claws Cat Rescue is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to preventing and alleviating the suffering caused by abuse, neglect, and overpopulation. We help cats mentally and physically heal, and give them a chance to find love, a full…
The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.
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…
Equality illinois builds a better illinois by advancing equal treatment and social justice through education, advocacy and protection of the rights of the lgbt community.
Chicago canine rescue foundation finds permanent homes for homeless dogs in our community with a specific emphasis on assisting the most vulnerable animals, who without our help, would have no other options. while in our care, they are…
Care for Friends provides fundamental food, clothing and healthcare programs for individuals in Chicago experiencing or at risk of homelessness. Our "no questions asked" policy removes the most common barriers to assistance and allows us…
The Chicago Parks Foundation is a separate 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that also serves as the strategic partner for the coordination of fundraising and charitable resources for the Chicago Park District.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evanston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Stand Tall International. 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 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 32 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 Music Theatre Works Inc ↗
- Who funds CURT'S CAFE ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON ANIMAL SHELTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Stand Tall International ↗
- Who funds Fuse Theatre Ensemble ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO ABORTION FUND ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds Evanston Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
- Who funds GIRLS PLAY SPORTS INC NFP ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds The Skylight Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOREVER FORTUNATE FELINES ↗
- Who funds JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS 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: The Chicago Community Trust · Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl Foundation · The Kellcie Fund · Evanston Community Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation · Northwestern University · Circle of Service Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher 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 Whirled Peas Foundation Inc 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.
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.