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Wieboldt Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k29 grants · $715k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHSIDE TOGETHER | $50,000 |
| PROGRESSIVE MULTIPLIER FUND | $41,050 |
| BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL | $35,000 |
| COMMUNITY ORGANIZAING AND FAMILY ISSUES | $35,000 |
| IL COALITION IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITIES UNITED | $30,000 |
| KENWOOD-OAKLAND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION | $30,000 |
| SOUTHWEST SUBURBAN IMMIGRANT PROJECT | $30,000 |
| CHICAGO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $30,000 |
| ONE NORTHSIDE | $25,000 |
| ORGANIZED COMMUNITIES AGAINST DEPORTATIONS | $25,000 |
| WESTSIDE RISING | $25,000 |
| LUGENIA BURNS HOPE CENTER | $25,000 |
| JEWISH COUNCIL ON URBAN AFFARIS | $25,000 |
| SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $592k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +97% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 4 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- JAJane Addams Senior Caucus5× · 2019–2023 · $212k · revenue +271%
- ONOrganizing Neighborhoods For Equality Northside6× · 2019–2024 · $200k · revenue +311%
- KOKenwood Oakland Community Organization6× · 2019–2024 · $183k · revenue +192%
Funded once
- WWFSone grant, 2022 · $25k
- PMPEOPLE MATTERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +41%
- GKGood Kids Mad City - Englewoodgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +41%
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.
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government,…
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.
The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.
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…
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…
Chicago Workers' Collaborative's mission is to promote full employment and equality for the lowest wage-earners, primarily temporary staffing workers, in the Chicago region through leadership and skills training, critical assistance and…
The Arab American Action Network (AAAN) strives to strengthen the Arab community in the Chicago area by building its capacity to be an active agent for positive social change. As a grassroots nonprofit, our strategies include community…
Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Strengthen United Way movement in Illinois
To establish, administer & promote programs providing legal aid to indigent persons, assisting community residents in obtaining legal services and benefits, and educating & training residents, paraprofessionals, and community attorneys.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 53 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.
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- Who funds BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES UNITED ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds Lugenia Burns Hope Center ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Logan Square Neighborhood Association ↗
- Who funds Grassroots Collaborative ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST SIDE HOUSING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Enlace Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE'S LOBBY EDUCATION INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Jewish Council on Urban Affairs ↗
- Who funds Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds Waukegan To College NFP ↗
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- Who funds THE HANA CENTER ↗
- Who funds Garfield Park Community Council ↗
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- Who funds SOUTHWEST SUBURBAN IMMIGRANT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PROGRESSIVE MULTIPLIER FUND ↗
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- Who funds CROSSROADS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Organized Communities Against Deportations ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ACTION FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds FOREFRONT ↗
- Who funds American Society of Echocardiography Incorporated ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION ↗
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: Woods Fund of Chicago · Field Foundation of Illinois · Crossroads Fund Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Conant Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · 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 organization 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.
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.
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