· Public charity
YWCA Metropolitan Chicago
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +170% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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…
Child care and pre-school program open year round for children ages fifteen months to five years of age.
Education/care for infants & toddlers
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…
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…
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.
Coulee childrens center, a provider of childcare services proudly empowers and strengthen families by focusing on healthy development and school readiness
Young Child Assiciates mission is to keep children safe and to support families in the daily care and guidance of their children. Our programs are designed to promote social, academic and personal growth using large and small group…
The center provides quality care and education to children of working parents and is licensed to care for 44 children from ages 6 weeks to 5 years old.
Our mission is to provide quality and safe childcare for the families in our community and provide our youngest learners with a positive start to their education journey.
How this is measured
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 144 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization YWCA Metropolitan Chicago funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from YWCA Metropolitan Chicago. Bigger dots raise more.
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