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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 FY2018
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Arts & Culture$187kHuman Services$170kEducation$69kCrime & Legal$43kHealth$26kYouth Development$6k
02FY2018 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $246,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $289,050 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $42,550 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $235k
$16,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Family Focus Inc$24,500
HP Community Nursery School$24,500
Highland Park Strings$23,000
Tri-Con Child Care Center$20,000
The Art 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
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Glenkirk: $6k → 14%Family Focus Inc: $25k → 8%Family Network: $25k → 8%Tri-Con Child Care Center: $25k → 8%Tri-Con Child Care Center: $20k → 8%SE Lake Co Faith in Action: $12k → 8%SE Lake Co Faith in Action: $10k → 8%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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
1

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.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • HP
    HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $49k · revenue +47%
  • TC
    TRI-CON CHILD CARE CENTER INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $45k · revenue +12%
  • TA
    THE ART CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK
    2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • HH
    HP Highwood Home Childcare
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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
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
2
Highland Center for the Arts
Arts & Culture
3
Chicago Heights Drama Group

To provide affordable community theater.

Arts & Culture
4
Highland Park Conservancy Inc

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…

Environment
5
Highland Park Chamber of Commerce Inc

Local chamber of commerce

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6
Hyde Park Art Center

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Lincoln Park Cooperative Nursery School

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…

Education
8
Chicago City Theatre Company dba Joel Hall Dancers & Center

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Heights Youth Theatre

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Highland Park Montessori School

Education of children from ages two through kindergarten.

Education
11
Highlands School

Preschool instruction for children

Education
12
Beverly Arts Center of Chicago

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Art Center of Highland Park; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Highland Park Strings: $65,000 · OtherHighland Park StringsHIGHLAND PARK PLAYERS: $32,000 · OtherHIGHLAND PARK PLAYERSFAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY: $30,000 · OtherFAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTYHP Highwood Home Childcare: $24,500 · OtherHP Highwood Home ChildcareHPHighwood Legal Aid Clinic: $21,000 · OtherHPHighwood Legal Aid ClinicFAMILY FOCUS LEGACY: $49,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY FOCUS LEGACYTRI-CON CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $44,500 · Human ServicesTRI-CON CHILD CARE CENTER I…Lake County Partners In Aging: $22,000 · Human ServicesLake County Partners In Agi…Glenkirk: $6,000 · Human ServicesTHE ART CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK: $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ART CENTER OF HI…THE PILGRIM CHAMBER PLAYERS: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PILGRIM CHAMBER …Focus on the Arts Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureFocus on the Arts In…HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL: $49,000 · EducationHIGHLAND PARK C…COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES: $20,000 · EducationCOLLEGE BOUND O…ZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER: $22,000 · Crime & LegalLESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER: $19,500 · Housing & ShelterJEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES: $5,500 · Youth Development
Other$172,500Human Services$121,500Arts & Culture$90,000Education$69,000Crime & Legal$22,000Housing & Shelter$19,500Youth Development$5,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAMILY FOCUS LEGACY: $49,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ART CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK: $40,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetHIGHLAND PARK PLAYERS: $32,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY: $30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLake County Partners In Aging: $22,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetCOLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFocus on the Arts Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetLESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER: $19,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGlenkirk: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Highland Park Communi…Healthcare Foundation…First Bank Chicago Fo…Jewish Federation of …AbbVie FoundationGoodman Family FundMills Family Charitab…United Way of Lake Co…Vivo FoundationBrock and Kristen LaM…James and Lesley Anix…Jerrold Ruskin Founda…
Highland Park Community FoundationIL32.7× 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 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

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 YEA Highland Park Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from YEA Highland Park Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    How do I get to YEA Highland Park Inc?

    Find your warmest path to YEA Highland Park Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 17 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2019) is on record and reports $232k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2018, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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