Below is another view from the same dashboard. This one shows counties with high poverty but lowest philanthropic support per person. You can click on the map, or the table at the right, to find data for each county.
I introduced the Smart Charity website in this January 2026 article on the Tutor/Mentor blog. It's part of a Project 990 program at the University of Indiana and one of a growing number of sites that I'm seeing that are using IRS 990 data to create interactive maps like this.
Below is an image from another story on the Tutor/Mentor blog.
This is the first page of a visual essay where I show the number of youth, age 6-17, who are below the poverty level, in each Chicago community area. An example is shown below. The yellow boxes show numbers from 2011 and the blue boxes show the same information, but for 2018.
If you use the Smart Charity dashboard you can zoom in to Illinois then put your curser over Cook County. You'll see that philanthropy gave $534.43 per person. That's for 5.177 million people. With the growing abilities of AI I'm hoping that future dashboards will zoom to the zip code, census tract, and/or community area level, giving a much better understanding of philanthropic support in big urban areas.
If you're finding dashboards like this please share the links in the comments, or connect with me on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and/or BlueSky to share the links.
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