How much did WIEBOLDT FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of WIEBOLDT FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

action

2020

—

2021

crossroadsaction

2022

—

2023

organized

2024

justiceorganized

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k29 grants · $715k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$22M

Total assets

Largest grants

SOUTHSIDE TOGETHER$50,000
PROGRESSIVE MULTIPLIER FUND$41,050
COMMUNITY ORGANIZAING AND FAMILY ISSUES$35,000
BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL$35,000
COMMUNITIES UNITED$30,000
CHICAGO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$30,000
SOUTHWEST SUBURBAN IMMIGRANT PROJECT$30,000
IL COALITION IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS$30,000
KENWOOD-OAKLAND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION$30,000
PALENQUE LSNA$25,000
NORTHSIDE ACTION FOR JUSTICE$25,000
NORTHEWST SIDE HOUSING CENTER$25,000
PASO$25,000
LUGENIA BURNS HOPE CENTER$25,000
ONE NORTHSIDE$25,000

02The need

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 (FY19–24, $482k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.3M · 39 repeat orgs$476k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.3M

$185k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+100%

+242%

Still filing today

62%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $291k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementHuman ServicesPhilanthropyPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterEducationOther

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

KC
Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization
6× · 2019–2024 · $183k · revenue +141%
PA
Pilsen Alliance
6× · 2019–2024 · $177k · revenue +64%
BP
Brighton Park Neighborhood Council
6× · 2019–2024 · $170k · revenue +189%

Funded once

GM
GOODKIDS MADCITY - ENGLEWOOD
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +15%
W
WFS
one grant, 2022 · $25k
PM
People Mattergraduated
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +41%

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.

Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights

Organizing Neighborhoods for Equality

Unites diverse communities and builds collective power to eliminate injustice through bold and innovative community organizing. We accomplish this through developing grassroots leaders and acting together to effect change.

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Chicago Refugee Coalition

The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.

Human Services

Latino Union of Chicago

Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.

Human Services

Chicago Votes

Leadership development and non partisan civic education.

Civil Rights

Alianza Leadership Institute

The Alliance of the SouthEast (ASE) builds the capacity of leaders, organizers, and associations that carry out community and social change. We envision a powerful grassroots base that impacts decision makers and wins real improvements in…

Human Services

Illinois Community for Displaced

Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.

Human Services

Blocks Together

Blocks Together: Blocks Together (BT) is a membership-based community organizing group in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood on Chicago's West Side. Since 1995, BT has empowered residents to work together for systematic changes that bring…

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Little Village Environmental Justice Org

To accomplish environmental justice and achieve self-determination in working-class families.

Recreation & Sports

Chicago Lawyers Committee

Secure racial equity and economic opportunity for all

Crime & Legal

Local Economic and Employment

North Branch Works is a membership-supported nonprofit neighborhood organization that for more than three decades has promoted balanced, job-creating economic development along the North Branch of the Chicago River.

Employment

The Network Advocating Against Domestic

The Network is a group of 40+ member organizations dedicated to improving the lives of those impacted by gender-based violence through education, public policy and advocacy, and connecting community members with direct service providers.…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwest Organizing Project and the most unlike its peers is Lugenia Burns Hope Center. 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 28 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% 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 — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%1/36

the rest of the field

14%

4,319/31,474

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

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/34

Grantees still filing

28/34

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,108,358Community Improvement$1,623,000Human Services$482,000Housing & Shelter$155,000Public Benefit$150,000Education$140,000Philanthropy$120,217

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.

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.

Woods Fund of ChicagoIL52.8× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Woods Fund of Chicago · Field Foundation of Illinois · Crossroads Fund Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Conant Family Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The Albert Pick Jr Fund · Marguerite Casey Foundation · Julian Grace Foundation · Grand Victoria Foundation · Chicago Teachers Union Foundation Inc

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 organisation WIEBOLDT 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Jane Addams Senior Caucus.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~31 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 363476552 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Jane Addams Senior Caucus, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 31 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 16% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Wieboldt Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wieboldt Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WIEBOLDT FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Wieboldt Foundation?

More from the funding graph

WIEBOLDT FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Wieboldt Foundation?

More from the funding graph