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Wieboldt Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$765k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Community Improvement$1.8MCivil Rights$902kHousing & Shelter$395kHuman Services$395kPublic Benefit$305kEducation$245kHealth$175kPhilanthropy$170kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k29 grants · $715k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHSIDE TOGETHER$50,000
PROGRESSIVE MULTIPLIER FUND$41,050
BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL$35,000
COMMUNITY ORGANIZAING AND FAMILY ISSUES$35,000
CHICAGO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$30,000
COMMUNITIES UNITED$30,000
KENWOOD-OAKLAND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION$30,000
IL COALITION IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS$30,000
SOUTHWEST SUBURBAN IMMIGRANT PROJECT$30,000
WESTSIDE RISING$25,000
JEWISH COUNCIL ON URBAN AFFARIS$25,000
THE COALITION FOR SPIRITUAL & PUBLIC LEADERSHIP$25,000
PASO$25,000
ONE NORTHSIDE$25,000
SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT$25,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NORTHSIDE ACTION FOR JUSTICE: $25k → 14%Northside Action for Justice: $25k → 14%Jane Addams Senior Caucus: $120k → 14%Jane Addams Senior Caucus: $30k → 14%Jane Addams Senior Caucus: $22k → 14%Jane Addams Senior Caucus: $20k → 14%Jane Addams Senior Caucus: $20k → 14%Alliance of the Southeast: $25k → 14%Alliance of the Southeast: $20k → 14%Alliance of the Southeast: $20k → 14%Alliance of the Southeast: $20k → 14%The Hana Center: $20k → 14%The Hana Center: $20k → 14%The Hana Center: $20k → 14%THE HANA CENTER: $15k → 14%The Hana Center: $15k → 14%The Hana Center: $15k → 14%Northwest Side Housing Center: $30k → 14%Northwest Side Housing Center: $25k → 14%NORTHEWST SIDE HOUSING CENTER: $25k → 14%Northwest Side Housing Center: $20k → 14%Northwest Side Housing Center: $20k → 14%Northwest Side Housing Center: $20k → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 40 repeat orgs$266k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +41% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
9

Total granted

$4.5M
$166k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+41%

Still filing today

75%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • JA
    Jane Addams Senior Caucus
    5× · 2019–2023 · $212k · revenue +271%
  • ON
    Organizing Neighborhoods For Equality Northside
    6× · 2019–2024 · $200k · revenue +311%
  • KO
    Kenwood Oakland Community Organization
    6× · 2019–2024 · $183k · revenue +192%

Funded once

  • W
    WFS
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • GK
    Good Kids Mad City - Englewoodgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +41%
  • PM
    PEOPLE MATTERgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +41%
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
Chicago United for Equity

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

Civil Rights
2
Chicago Votes

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,…

Civil Rights
3
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
4
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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5
Midwest Academy

Training and consulting with community organizers, supervisors and volunteers.

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6
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
7
Live Free Chicago

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…

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8
Chicago Workers' Collaborative Nfp

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…

Education
9
United Way of Illinois

Strengthen United Way movement in Illinois

Philanthropy
10
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
11
Arab American Action Network

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…

Youth Development
12
Illinois Community for Displaced Immigrants

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago; 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.
04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/38
Grantees still filing
33/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Kenwood Oakland Community Organization: $183,000 · Community ImprovementKenwood Oakland Community OrganizationPILSEN ALLIANCE: $177,000 · Community ImprovementPILSEN ALLIANCESouthside Together Organizing For Power: $171,000 · Community ImprovementSouthside Together Organizing For PowerCOMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES: $170,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUESBRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL: $170,000 · Community ImprovementBRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCILCOMMUNITIES UNITED: $155,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITIES UNITEDLogan Square Neighborhood Association: $142,000 · Community ImprovementLogan Square Neighborhood AssociationSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT: $142,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECTEnlace Chicago: $130,000 · Community ImprovementEnlace ChicagoJewish Council on Urban Affairs: $115,000 · Community ImprovementJewish Council on Urban AffairsGarfield Park Community Council: $93,000 · Community ImprovementGarfield Park Community CouncilLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT CORP: $60,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $25,000 · Community ImprovementIL Coalition Immigrant & Refugee Rights: $305,000 · OtherIL Coalition Immigrant & Refugee RightsOrganizing Neighborhoods For Equality Northside: $200,000 · OtherOrganizing Neighborhoods For Equality Nort…Lugenia Burns Hope Center: $155,000 · OtherLugenia Burns Hope CenterAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago: $110,000 · OtherAccess Living of Metropolitan ChicagoChicago Housing Initiative: $100,000 · OtherChicago Housing InitiativeIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $85,000 · OtherAction Now Institute: $77,000 · OtherSOUL: $62,000 · OtherASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - CHICAGO: $105,000 · OtherASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - CHICAG…SOUTHWEST SUBURBAN IMMIGRANT PROJECT: $65,000 · Other+16 more: $425,000 · Other+16 moreJane Addams Senior Caucus: $212,000 · Human ServicesJane Addams S…NORTHWEST SIDE HOUSING CENTER: $140,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST SID…THE HANA CENTER: $105,000 · Human ServicesTHE HANA CENT…Alianza Leadership Institute: $85,000 · Human ServicesAlianza Leade…NORTHSIDE ACTION FOR JUSTICE: $50,000 · Human ServicesNORTHSIDE ACT…Grassroots Collaborative: $140,000 · EducationWaukegan To College NFP: $105,000 · EducationCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $155,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE PEOPLE'S LOBBY EDUCATION INSTITUTE: $125,000 · Public BenefitPEOPLE MATTER: $25,000 · Public BenefitPROGRESSIVE MULTIPLIER FUND: $60,408 · PhilanthropyFOREFRONT: $45,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION: $34,167 · Philanthropy
Community Improvement$1,733,000Other$1,789,000Human Services$592,000Education$245,000Housing & Shelter$155,000Public Benefit$150,000Philanthropy$139,575

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJane Addams Senior Caucus: $212,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetOrganizing Neighborhoods For Equality Northside: $200,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetKenwood Oakland Community Organization: $183,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetPILSEN ALLIANCE: $177,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetSouthside Together Organizing For Power: $171,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES: $170,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetBRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL: $170,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLugenia Burns Hope Center: $155,000 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES UNITED: $155,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $155,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetLogan Square Neighborhood Association: $142,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT: $142,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWEST SIDE HOUSING CENTER: $140,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetGrassroots Collaborative: $140,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetEnlace Chicago: $130,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PEOPLE'S LOBBY EDUCATION INSTITUTE: $125,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetJewish Council on Urban Affairs: $115,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago: $110,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - CHICAGO: $105,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HANA CENTER: $105,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWaukegan To College NFP: $105,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetGarfield Park Community Council: $93,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetAlianza Leadership Institute: $85,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetAction Now Institute: $77,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetSOUTHWEST SUBURBAN IMMIGRANT PROJECT: $65,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetPROGRESSIVE MULTIPLIER FUND: $60,408 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT CORP: $60,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCROSSROADS FUND INC: $54,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOrganized Communities Against Deportations: $50,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACTION FOR JUSTICE: $50,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetFOREFRONT: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Society of Echocardiography Incorporated: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION: $34,167 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGood Kids Mad City - Englewood: $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetWESTSIDE RISING: $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPEOPLE MATTER: $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetNeighborhood Funders Group: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHealing to Action: $1,000 over 1y, 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 Jane Addams Senior Caucus ↗
  • Who funds Organizing Neighborhoods For Equality Northside ↗
  • Who funds Kenwood Oakland Community Organization ↗
  • Who funds PILSEN ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Southside Together Organizing For Power ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds Lugenia Burns Hope Center ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES UNITED ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
  • Who funds Logan Square Neighborhood Association ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST SIDE HOUSING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Grassroots Collaborative ↗
  • 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 ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds THE HANA CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Waukegan To College NFP ↗
  • Who funds Garfield Park Community Council ↗
  • Who funds Alianza Leadership Institute ↗
  • Who funds Action Now Institute ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST SUBURBAN IMMIGRANT PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds PROGRESSIVE MULTIPLIER FUND ↗
  • Who funds LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Woods Fund of ChicagoField Foundation of I…Crossroads Fund IncPolk Bros Foundation …Conant Family Foundat…The Chicago Community…United Way of Metropo…The Albert Pick Jr Fu…Marguerite Casey Foun…Julian Grace Foundati…Grand Victoria Founda…Chicago Teachers Unio…
Woods Fund of ChicagoIL57.7× affinity25 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 · 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

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 Wieboldt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wieboldt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
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    How do I get to Wieboldt Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Wieboldt 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 53 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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