· Public charity
YWCA Metropolitan Chicago
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 86 grants below total $6,541,424 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,555,183 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,013,759 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $241k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $711k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+6 grants · $4.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hometown Child Care LLC | $1,497,921 |
| ONE HOPE UNITED | $669,719 |
| JUGANDO SE APRENDE INC | $600,334 |
| LITTLE PRINCE DAY CARE II LLC - Addison | $487,011 |
| Peppermint Stick Children's Center | $442,495 |
| Step by Step Daycare Inc | $435,750 |
| VersityLink LLC | $238,359 |
| SMGG Corporation | $174,294 |
| Kiddie Academy of Carpentersville | $166,464 |
| Step By Step Child Care Center Inc - Morris | $151,601 |
| Living 4 Childcare Learning Center Inc | $151,398 |
| Granny Bettys Daycare and Learning Center Inc | $125,851 |
| American Vintage Holdings | $85,858 |
| Carols Learning Academy Inc | $66,476 |
| Childrens Garden Academy Inc | $63,614 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% 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 +170% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
71 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 24 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $366k 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
- HCHometown Child Care LLC9× · 2017–2025 · $5.9M
- JSJUGANDO SE APRENDE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $3.9M
- LPLITTLE PRINCE DAY CARE II LLC - Addison9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M
Funded once
- YLYWCA LAKE COUNTYone grant, 2021 · $267k · revenue 0%
- HAHICKMAN AND HARRISON GROUP LLC DBA REVENEWCYCLE MANAGEMENT & CONSULTINGone grant, 2023 · $163k
- ESEASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY REGIONone grant, 2024 · $72k · revenue +4%
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.
Providing Social Services to Families including Child Care
Provides high quality, comprehensive, early childhood education and childcare in a safe and nurturing environment for Dekalb, IL area families. The experienced teachers and staff provide age-appropriate curriculum through play-based…
Our pursuit is to emphasize equality, solidarity, emotional literacy, and exploration of the arts within our classrooms and surrounding community. It is our goal to build on a child's academic foundation with play based learning, hands-on…
Child care and pre-school program open year round for children ages fifteen months to five years of age.
We offer a wide variety of programs and services, providing opportunities for adults and children to improve in spirit, mind and body. the ymca has childcare and preschool for children. we also have fitness classes, swim lessons, and…
Coulee childrens center, a provider of childcare services proudly empowers and strengthen families by focusing on healthy development and school readiness
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
Metrokids Preschool is a dynamic new school in St. Paul. We provide the highest quality preschool education, distinguished daycare amenities, and professional services for children in a warm, nurturing, and responsive environment. We are…
Education/care for infants & toddlers
The Co-Op Preschool provides early childhood educational programs in Lombard, IL. We serve local families with high-quality programming for children from 15 months to 5 years old. The Co-Op Preschool helps children build the skills they…
Provide full time child care service for ages six months through five years of age, and after school child care services for children up to twelve years old.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Focus and the most unlike its peers is St Marks Child Care Center Inc. 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 144 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.
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: Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · The Dupage Community Foundation · Grand Victoria Foundation · Illinois Action for Children · Women's Business Development Center · The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 YWCA Metropolitan Chicago 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.