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· Public charity
YEA Highland Park Inc
Charitable purposes include: Raising funds for distribution to other 501(c)(3) organizations that support youth, education, arts and social services in Highland Park, IL
$289k
Granted FY2018
16
Grants
1
Communities
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0166% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2018.
Human Services$122kArts & Culture$90kEducation$69kCrime & Legal$22kHousing & Shelter$20kYouth Development$6kOther$173k
02FY2018 · 16 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $235k
$16,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$242k
Total assets
Largest grants
- HP Community Nursery School$24,500
- Family Focus Inc$24,500
- Highland Park Strings$23,000
- The Art Center$20,000
- Tri-Con Child Care Center$20,000
- Focus on the Arts$20,000
- Highland Park Players$17,000
- Pilgrim Chamber Players$16,000
- Family Service South Lake Co$15,000
- Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center$12,000
- SE Lake Co Faith in Action$12,000
- HPHighwood Legal Aid Clinic$11,000
- College Bound Opportunities$10,000
- Anixter Center Adult Communit$10,000
- Glenkirk$6,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 11%. 5% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$444k · 13 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else
13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
13
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Total granted
$444k
$25k
Still filing today
69%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2018, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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
- HCHP Community Nursery School2× · 2017–2018 · $49k · revenue +54%
- TCTri-Con Child Care Center2× · 2017–2018 · $45k · revenue +12%
- TAThe Art Center2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- HHHP Highwood Home Childcareone grant, 2017 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Highland Center for the Arts
Arts & Culture
2
Lawndale Art & Performance Center
A multidisciplinary contemporary art center that engages communities with exhibitions and programs.
Arts & Culture
3
Highland Park Conservancy Inc
Preserve Highland Park's unique heritage and promote its vast resources.
Environment
4
Lincoln Park Cooperative Nursery School
The organization operates a nursery school and summer camp for approximately 80 children ages 3 and 4 from the lincoln park area and adjacent neighbordhoods of chicago
Education
5
Lexington Playcare Center Inc
Educational childcare for preschool and toddler children
Human Services
6
The Chicago High School for the Arts
The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…
Education
7
Columbia College Chicago
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Education
8
The Center for the Performing Arts at
To present a diverse offering of performing arts and educational programs.
Arts & Culture
9
Lakewood Community Care Center
To provide early childhood education and day care services to lakewood ohio.
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10
Hyde Park Art Center
The hyde park art center presents innovative exhibitions of new work by primarily chicago-based artists, educational programs for children and adults, novice through professional, and free public programming for a diverse and creative…
Arts & Culture
11
The Childrens Center
The children's center provides early child care and education in a vibrant learning community that emphasizes personal development, social relationships and family involvement, in order to establish a foundation for lifelong learning.
Education
12
The Contemporary Arts Center
The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Art Center Highland Park and the most unlike its peers is Lester and Rosalie Anixter 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
14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$172,500Human Services$121,500Arts & Culture$90,000Education$69,000Crime & Legal$22,000Housing & Shelter$19,500Youth Development$5,500
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 HP Community Nursery School ↗
- Who funds Family Network ↗
- Who funds Tri-Con Child Care Center ↗
- Who funds The Art Center ↗
- Who funds Highland Park Players ↗
- Who funds Pilgrim Chamber Players ↗
- Who funds Family Service South Lake Co ↗
- Who funds SE Lake Co Faith in Action ↗
- Who funds Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center ↗
- Who funds Focus on the Arts ↗
- Who funds College Bound Opportunities ↗
- Who funds Anixter Center Adult Communit ↗
- Who funds Glenkirk ↗
- Who funds Jewish Council for Youth Serv ↗
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.
Highland Park Community FoundationIL33.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Highland Park Community Foundation · Healthcare Foundation Of · First Bank Chicago Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan · AbbVie Foundation · Goodman Family Fund · Mills Family Charitable Foundation · United Way of Lake County Inc · Kovler Family Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust
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 organisation YEA Highland Park Inc 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.
2025
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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Highland Park Players.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
high risk
2 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.
Legal standing
medium risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 363588185 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Highland Park Players, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 29% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to YEA Highland Park Inc?
Find your warmest path to YEA Highland Park Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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