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WP & HB White Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k126 grants · $3.0M
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Chicago Childrens Advocacy | $140,000 |
| WINGS Program | $130,000 |
| CARA Program | $125,000 |
| The Chicago Lighthouse | $120,000 |
| Franciscan Outreach | $115,000 |
| Humble Design | $100,000 |
| Cristo Rey | $100,000 |
| Christ the King Jesuit High School | $80,000 |
| Family Rescue | $75,000 |
| Parenting for NonViolence | $73,000 |
| South Side Center of Hope | $70,000 |
| Leveling the Playing Field Inc | $50,000 |
| Catholic Theological Union | $50,000 |
| SparkShop | $50,000 |
| Josephinum Academy | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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 +29% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
147 repeat relationships — 122 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $521k 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
- BSBig Shoulders Fund6× · 2020–2025 · $395k · revenue +67%
CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $330k · revenue +96%- WPWINGS PROGRAM INC6× · 2020–2025 · $285k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- LPLOYOLA PRESSone grant, 2024 · $70k · revenue 0%
- ESEXECUTIVE SERVICE CORPSone grant, 2022 · $40k
- CSCHICAGO SCHOOL OF PROF PSYCHOLOGYone grant, 2023 · $30k
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.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…
Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in 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…
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness (CCH) builds community power and advances racial equity through organizing, advocacy, legal assistance, and education to prevent and end homelessness because housing is a human right.
House of Good Shepherd serves with love and compassion women and children affected by domestic violence by offering a safe place with opportunities for emotional, educational and spiritual growth, giving hope and continued support for a…
Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.
The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
Providing interim housing for men, women and children, social services, homeless services, emergency shelter, and housing in chicago community for the homeless, poor and disadvantaged.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Will's Place. 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 38 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
126 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. 126 of the 186 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 Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WINGS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORING THE PATH ↗
- Who funds The Cara Program ↗
- Who funds St Leonard's Ministries ↗
- Who funds PARENTING FOR NON VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds A SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Target Hope ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE CENTER OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds JANE ADDAMS RESOURCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER NORTH SUBURBAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds CASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Resurrection Project ↗
- Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
- Who funds SISTERHOUSE ↗
- Who funds DEBORAH'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds BUILD INC ↗
- Who funds NEOPOLITAN LIGHTHOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds HIGHSIGHT ↗
- Who funds THE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COOK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
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: Helen V Brach Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Dr Scholl Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The a Montgomery Ward Foundation · The Service Club of Chicago · All Chicago Making Homelessness History
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 WP & HB White 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
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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