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Wisdom Family Foundation
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Embrace Services | $5,000 |
| Verde Community Church | $5,000 |
| Crisis Nursery | $5,000 |
| Kids Too | $2,500 |
| The Dwelling Place | $2,500 |
| Bellin Health Foundation | $2,000 |
| BrainPower In A BackPack--Burnsville High School | $1,000 |
| Elpis Enterprises | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 7 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, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- FSFOSTERING SUCCESS3× · 2021–2023 · $32k · revenue -29% · 48% of their budget
- SFST FRANCIS DE SALES PARISH SCHOOLS2× · 2020–2021 · $15k
- UEU-46 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $13k · revenue -21%
Funded once
- SFSAIL FUTURE ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $75k
- TITRILOGY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +30%
- CACAL'S ANGELS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Recruit, train, and support volunteer citizen advocates to effectively speak to the best interests of abused, neglected, and dependent children in dupage county's juvenile court system because every child has a right to a safe, permanent…
The mission of advocate health care is to serve the health needs of individuals, families and communities through a wholistic philosophy rooted in our fundamental understanding of human beings as created in the image of god.
Ehs home health care service, inc.'s (ehshhc) mission is to provide quality medical home health services and education to various communities in the chicagoland area regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, age or ability…
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.
Family Service Association of Greater Elgin Area is dedicated to empowering individuals and families, promoting self sufficiency and building stronger communities through quality, accessible client centered services.
Empower Illinois youth currently or formerly in foster care to attain a college degree and transition into adulthood successfully by providing mentorship, advocacy, and educational opportunity.
One for one chicago provides paid work-based learning, mentorship, and career readiness support for young people ages 1524 in chicago communities with high rates of unemployment and limited access to early work experience.
Believing that every jewish child needs and deserves to grow up in a stable and healthy home environment, and that the fabric of that home is woven from material, emotional and religious threads, one family chicago is committed to…
See schedule oadvancing physical and emotional safety by reducing the impact and occurrence of sexual and domestic violence, human trafficking and stalking through inclusive intervention and prevention services for children, youth, and…
Arc community services, inc. (arc) is dedicated to helping women reclaim their lives, gain awareness of their personal self-worth, and be empowered to make the changes necessary to improve their welfare along with that of their children…
The aids foundation of chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.
To prevent child abuse in Illinois through education, awareness, advocacy, and community support
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Embrace Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fostering Success. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 30 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 FOSTERING SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds U-46 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRILOGY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds EMBRACE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds The Dwelling Place ↗
- Who funds I CAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARENTS AGAINST CHILD SEX ABUSE DBA KIDS TOO ↗
- Who funds THE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds L'ARCHE CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds CASA KANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Elpis Enterprises ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATE SHERMAN HOSPITAL ↗
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: Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Wisdom Family 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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