Skip to content
Woods Fund of Chicago at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

Woods Fund of Chicago

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
120
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$170k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Civil Rights$6.4MCommunity Improvement$4.0MCrime & Legal$2.5MEmployment$1.2MHousing & Shelter$1.0MHuman Services$961kPhilanthropy$863kEducation$632kOther$0
02FY2024 · 120 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $800k
  • $50k–250k80 grants · $4.8M
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROSSROADS FUND$170,000
Individual grant recipient$150,000
SOUTHSIDE TOGETHER ORGANIZING FOR POWER$120,000
HANA CENTER$120,000
KENWOOD OAKLAND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION$100,000
CHICAGO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$90,000
BLACK ROOTS ALLIANCE$90,000
THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$75,000
PILSEN ALLIANCE$60,000
COALITION FOR SPIRITUAL AND PUBLIC LEADERSHIP NFP$60,000
ORGANIZING NEIGHBORHOODS FOR EQUALITY NORTHSIDE$60,000
CHICAGO UNITED FOR EQUITY$60,000
LOGAN SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION DBA PALENQUE LSNA$60,000
MUSLIMS FOR JUST FUTURES$60,000
WESTSIDE RISING$60,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.1M) 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%LATINO UNION INC AKA LATINO UNION OF CHICAGO: $60k → 14%LATINO UNION INC AKA LATINO UNION OF CHICAGO: $50k → 14%LATINO UNION INC AKA LATINO UNION OF CHICAGO: $50k → 14%LATINO UNION INC AKA LATINO UNION OF CHICAGO: $40k → 14%LATINO UNION INC AKA LATINO UNION OF CHICAGO: $40k → 14%EQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION: $50k → 14%EQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION: $45k → 14%EQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION: $40k → 14%EQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION: $26k → 14%JANE ADDAMS SENIOR CAUCUS: $28k → 14%JANE ADDAMS SENIOR CAUCUS: $28k → 14%COALITION FOR SPIRITUAL AND PUBLIC LEADERSHIP NFP: $60k → 14%COALITION FOR SPIRITUAL AND PUBLIC LEADERSHIP NFP: $35k → 14%CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS UNITED WORKERS' CENTER: $60k → 14%CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS: $50k → 14%CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS UNITED WORKERS' CENTER: $50k → 14%CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS: $35k → 14%CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS UNITED WORKERS' CENTER: $35k → 14%HANA CENTER: $120k → 14%HANA CENTER: $55k → 14%HANA CENTER: $51k → 14%THE HANA CENTER: $45k → 14%HANA CENTER: $45k → 14%EASTLAKE TENANTS UNION: $35k → 14%ILLINOIS PARTNERS FOR HUMAN SERVICE: $30k → 14%NORTHWEST SIDE HOUSING CENTER DBA NORTHWEST CENTER: $50k → 14%NORTHWEST SIDE HOUSING CENTER: $40k → 14%NORTHWEST SIDE HOUSING CENTER DBA NORTHWEST CENTER: $40k → 14%NORTHWEST SIDE HOUSING CENTER: $20k → 14%NORTHWEST SIDE HOUSING CENTER: $20k → 14%VIETNAMESE ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS: $30k → 14%PASO-WEST SUBURBAN ACTION PROJECT: $50k → 14%PASO-WEST SUBURBAN ACTION PROJECT: $50k → 14%PASO - WEST SUBURBAN ACTION PROJECT: $40k → 14%PASO-WEST SUBURBAN ACTION PROJECT: $35k → 14%PASO-WEST SUBURBAN ACTION PROJECT: $30k → 14%MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $50k → 14%MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $50k → 14%BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $50k → 14%BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $45k → 14%BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $35k → 14%BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $35k → 14%MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $25k → 14%MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $25k → 14%LATIN WOMEN IN ACTION AKA MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $18k → 14%FATHERS FAMILIES AND HEALTHY COMMUNITIES: $25k → 14%FATHERS FAMILIES AND HEALTHY COMMUNITIES: $20k → 14%FATHERS FAMILIES AND HEALTHY COMMUNITIES: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
SD
CT
CA
CO
AZ
DC
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 113 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

113 repeat relationships: 79 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

113
100

Total granted

$17M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+33%

Still filing today

74%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalCivil RightsEducationHousing & 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

  • CF
    CROSSROADS FUND INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $524k · revenue +167%
  • KO
    Kenwood Oakland Community Organization
    5× · 2020–2024 · $436k · revenue +88%
  • ST
    Southside Together Organizing For Power
    5× · 2020–2024 · $330k · revenue +261% · 26% of their budget

Funded once

  • JC
    JUST CHICAGO COLLECTIVE (FS BYP100 EDUCATION FUND)
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • OC
    OPEN COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION AKA PATHS (FISCAL SPONSOR THE PRAXIS PROJECT)
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • Center for Third World Organizinggraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $70k · revenue +34%
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 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
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
The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence

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
4
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
5
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
6
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs

The Jewish Council on Urban Affair's (JCUA) longstanding mission is to combat poverty, racism and antisemitism working in partnership with diverse communities. JCUA uses a community organizing model to engage the Jewish community in the…

Community Improvement
7
Chicago United

To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.

Philanthropy
8
Legal Aid Chicago

At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…

Crime & Legal
9
Public Interest Law Initiative

PILI engages, inspires and empowers those advancing equal access to justice.

Crime & Legal
10
Illinois Unidos

Champion equitable responses and recovery efforts for the Latinx community impacted by COVID-19

Community Improvement
11
Chicago Committee On Minorities in Large Law Firms

The chicago committee seeks racial and ethnic diversity in the legal profession by collaborating with its law firm and corporate membership to: drive sustainable institutional change at law firms and corporate legal departments; provide…

Civil Rights
12
Cair-Chicago

A grass roots civil rights activisim, community outreach and political empowerment to the community members.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United African Organization; the most unlike its peers is Marguerite Casey Foundation. 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

135 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. 135 of the 254 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
47
Early backer (in before they grew)
128/135
Grantees still filing
102/135
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CROSSROADS FUND INC: $523,700 · Other+137 more: $10,033,609 · Other+137 moreKenwood Oakland Community Organization: $435,789 · Community ImprovementKenwood Oakland…Southside Together Organizing For Power: $329,789 · Community ImprovementSouthside Toget…SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT: $275,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHWEST ORGAN…COMMUNITIES UNITED: $250,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITIES UNI…BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL: $230,000 · Community ImprovementBRIGHTON PARK N…PILSEN ALLIANCE: $228,789 · Community ImprovementPILSEN ALLIANCEEnlace Chicago: $211,000 · Community ImprovementEnlace ChicagoCOMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES: $210,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY ORGAN…INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK: $177,500 · Community ImprovementINNER-CITY MUSL…LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT CORP: $165,000 · Community ImprovementLAWNDALE CHRIST…Logan Square Neighborhood Association: $144,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $90,000 · Community ImprovementTHE HANA CENTER: $316,000 · Human ServicesTHE HANA CE…Latino Union of Chicago: $251,039 · Human ServicesLatino Unio…CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS: $240,789 · Human ServicesCENTRO DE T…PASO- WEST SUBURBAN ACTION PROJECT: $205,000 · Human ServicesPASO- WEST …MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $173,600 · Human ServicesMUJERES LAT…NORTHWEST SIDE HOUSING CENTER: $170,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST S…BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $165,000 · Human ServicesBRAVE SPACE…EQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION: $162,500 · Human ServicesEQUITY AND …COALITION FOR SPIRITUAL & PUBLIC LDRSHP: $95,000 · Human ServicesJane Addams Senior Caucus: $75,789 · Human ServicesFATHERS FAMILIES HEALTHY COMMUNITIES: $75,789 · Human Services+4 more: $115,789 · Human Services+4 moreBYP100 Education Fund: $357,500 · Civil RightsBYP100 Ed…ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS: $270,000 · Civil RightsILLINOIS …Workers Center For Racial Just NFP: $245,789 · Civil RightsWorkers C…CHICAGO COMMUNITY AND WORKERS RIGHTSNFP: $200,789 · Civil RightsCHICAGO C…CHICAGO AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE: $150,000 · Civil RightsCHICAGO A…BLACKROOTS ALLIANCE: $140,000 · Civil RightsBLACKROOT…Chicago United for Equity: $130,000 · Civil RightsChicago U…Organized Communities Against Deportations: $115,000 · Civil RightsOrganized…+4 more: $145,789 · Civil Rights+4 moreCHICAGO COMMUNITY BOND FUND: $240,000 · Crime & LegalSHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW: $225,000 · Crime & LegalCABRINI GREEN LEGAL AID: $210,000 · Crime & LegalFirst Defense Legal Aid: $200,789 · Crime & LegalThe Juvenile Justice Initiative Attn Elizabeth Clarke: $195,789 · Crime & LegalTarget Area Development Corporation: $100,000 · Crime & LegalGood Kids Mad City - Englewood: $96,000 · Crime & LegalChicago Torture Justice Center: $95,000 · Crime & LegalIMPACT FOR EQUITY: $80,000 · Crime & Legal+4 more: $119,039 · Crime & LegalGrassroots Collaborative: $255,150 · EducationChicago Workers' Collaborative NFP: $244,789 · EducationRAISE YOUR HAND FOR ILLINOIS PUBLIC EDUCATION: $230,789 · EducationCHICAGO FREEDOM SCHOOL: $95,000 · EducationDISSENTERS: $65,000 · EducationThe Chicago Community Trust: $265,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION: $232,289 · PhilanthropyFOREFRONT: $70,000 · PhilanthropySocial Movement Technologies Foundation Inc: $45,000 · Philanthropy
Other$10,557,309Community Improvement$2,746,867Human Services$2,046,295Civil Rights$1,754,867Crime & Legal$1,561,617Education$890,728Philanthropy$612,289

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCROSSROADS FUND INC: $523,700 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetKenwood Oakland Community Organization: $435,789 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetBYP100 Education Fund: $357,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetSouthside Together Organizing For Power: $329,789 over 5y, 26% of budgetTHE HANA CENTER: $316,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $281,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetLugenia Burns Hope Center: $280,789 over 5y, 12% of budgetSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT: $275,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS: $270,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Chicago Community Trust: $265,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOrganizing Neighborhoods For Equality Northside: $262,750 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetGrassroots Collaborative: $255,150 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetLatino Union of Chicago: $251,039 over 5y, 15% of budgetCOMMUNITIES UNITED: $250,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetAlliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment: $245,789 over 5y, 24% of budgetWorkers Center For Racial Just NFP: $245,789 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetChicago Workers' Collaborative NFP: $244,789 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetCENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS: $240,789 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetCHICAGO COMMUNITY BOND FUND: $240,000 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetArab American Action Network: $232,589 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetSOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION: $232,289 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetBLOCKS TOGETHER: $230,789 over 5y, 10% of budgetRAISE YOUR HAND FOR ILLINOIS PUBLIC EDUCATION: $230,789 over 5y, 15% of budgetWoodstock Institute: $230,789 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetLATINO POLICY FORUM: $230,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetBRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL: $230,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPILSEN ALLIANCE: $228,789 over 5y, 20% of budgetSHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW: $225,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetEnlace Chicago: $211,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES: $210,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCABRINI GREEN LEGAL AID: $210,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetPASO- WEST SUBURBAN ACTION PROJECT: $205,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetCHICAGO COMMUNITY AND WORKERS RIGHTSNFP: $200,789 over 5y, 11% of budgetFirst Defense Legal Aid: $200,789 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetThe Juvenile Justice Initiative Attn Elizabeth Clarke: $195,789 over 5y, 48% of budgetHousing Action Illinois: $195,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetAction Now Institute: $183,289 over 4y, 19% of budgetARISE CHICAGO: $180,789 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetWOMEN EMPLOYED: $180,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetLittle Village Environmental Justice Org: $180,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK: $177,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHealing to Action: $175,789 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetMUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $173,600 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetPROGRESS CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $170,789 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetNORTHWEST SIDE HOUSING CENTER: $170,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetA LONG WALK HOME INC: $166,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetBRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $165,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetILLINOIS CAUCUS FOR ADOLESCENT HEALTH INC: $165,000 over 4y, 11% 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 CROSSROADS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Kenwood Oakland Community Organization ↗
  • Who funds BYP100 Education Fund ↗
  • Who funds Southside Together Organizing For Power ↗
  • Who funds THE HANA CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
  • Who funds Lugenia Burns Hope Center ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds The Chicago Community Trust ↗
  • Who funds Organizing Neighborhoods For Equality Northside ↗
  • Who funds Grassroots Collaborative ↗
  • Who funds Latino Union of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES UNITED ↗
  • Who funds Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment ↗
  • Who funds Workers Center For Racial Just NFP ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Workers' Collaborative NFP ↗
  • Who funds CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO COMMUNITY BOND FUND ↗
  • Who funds Arab American Action Network ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION ↗
  • Who funds BLOCKS TOGETHER ↗
  • Who funds RAISE YOUR HAND FOR ILLINOIS PUBLIC EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds Woodstock Institute ↗
  • Who funds LATINO POLICY FORUM ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds PILSEN ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW ↗
  • Who funds Enlace Chicago ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES ↗
  • Who funds CABRINI GREEN LEGAL AID ↗
  • Who funds PASO- WEST SUBURBAN ACTION PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO COMMUNITY AND WORKERS RIGHTSNFP ↗
  • Who funds First Defense Legal Aid ↗
  • Who funds The Juvenile Justice Initiative Attn Elizabeth Clarke ↗
  • Who funds Housing Action Illinois ↗

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.

Polk Bros Foundation …Crossroads Fund IncField Foundation of I…John D and Catherine …United Way of Metropo…Chicago Foundation fo…ForefrontThe Chicago Community…Lloyd a Fry FoundationGrand Victoria Founda…Conant Family Foundat…Julian Grace Foundati…
Polk Bros Foundation IncIL122.9× affinity63 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Crossroads Fund Inc · Field Foundation of Illinois · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Chicago Foundation for Women · Forefront · The Chicago Community Trust · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Grand Victoria Foundation · Conant Family Foundation · Julian Grace Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    46report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 254 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.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Woods Fund of Chicago’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home