Illinois · Public charity
Build Inc
Build's mission is to inspire hope and offer opportunities so youth facing systemic obstacles can achieve positive futures. Build focuses on hard-to-serve youth in some of chicago's most challenging neighborhoods. Build does this through expertise in youth development, violence prevention/intervention and coalition building.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.3M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $400,097
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,678,096
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 4
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $29M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Build Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $2.3M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $2.5M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $2.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Covenant House Illinois Inc | $3,389,432 | 3 | 19% |
| MAAFA Redemption Project | $1,912,465 | 3 | 42% |
| United for Better Living Inc | $870,083 | 3 | n/a |
| Blocks Together | $859,148 | 3 | n/a |
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust
How this is measured
About Build Inc
- How much does Build Inc give?
- Build Inc reported 4 itemized grants totaling $2,315,361, out of $2,450,299 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 4 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does Build Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (48%), Community Improvement (27%), Health (25%).
- Who are Build Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Covenant House Illinois Inc ($3.4M), MAAFA Redemption Project ($1.9M), United for Better Living Inc ($870k).
- Does Build Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Build Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Build Inc based?
- Build Inc is based in IL.
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