· 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
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $246,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $289,050 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $42,550 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $235k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HP Community Nursery School | $24,500 |
| Family Focus Inc | $24,500 |
| Highland Park Strings | $23,000 |
| Focus on the Arts | $20,000 |
| The Art Center | $20,000 |
| Tri-Con Child Care Center | $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 |
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 (FY17–18, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2018, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- HPHIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL2× · 2017–2018 · $49k · revenue +47%
- TCTRI-CON CHILD CARE CENTER INC2× · 2017–2018 · $45k · revenue +12%
- TATHE ART CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue +38%
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.
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.
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…
To provide affordable community theater.
The mission is to preserve Highland Park's unique heritage and to promote its vast horticultural, educational and recreational resources. Continued on Schedule OWe support planning, management and restoration, and engage the community…
Local chamber of commerce
The purpose of the hyde park art center (the art center) is to stimulate and sustain the visual arts in chicago. it does so by challenging and supporting artists, connecting artists to a broader public, and creating a community of people…
The mission of lincoln park cooperative nursery school is to provide a safe, nurturing, and developmentally appropriate program for preschool children, governed by a parent board and staffed by professional early childhood educators with…
To enrich the lives of our community through dance education and performance while developing Chicago's native talent pool in a welcoming environment that celebrates multiculturalism & ethnic diversity.
Heights Youth Theatre is one of the oldest children's theaters in the country, offering kids aged 6 - 18 high quality theatrical experiences and training for 65+ years, while also creating well rounded creative individuals. The mission of…
Education of children from ages two through kindergarten.
Preschool instruction for children
The Beverly Arts Center, located on Chicago's south side, is a multi-faceted organization building community through diverse, quality arts programming, education, and entertainment for all ages and levels.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Art Center of Highland Park and the most unlike its peers is The Pilgrim Chamber Players. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 17 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 HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY FOCUS LEGACY ↗
- Who funds TRI-CON CHILD CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ART CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND PARK PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds THE PILGRIM CHAMBER PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Lake County Partners In Aging ↗
- Who funds ZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds Focus on the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds LESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER ↗
- Who funds Glenkirk ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES ↗
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: Highland Park Community Foundation · Healthcare Foundation of Highland Park · First Bank Chicago Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · AbbVie Foundation · Goodman Family Fund · Mills Family Charitable Foundation · United Way of Lake County Inc · Vivo Foundation · Brock and Kristen LaMarca Family Foundation · James and Lesley Anixter Foundation · Jerrold Ruskin Foundation Inc
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 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.
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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