· Private foundation
Chapin-May Foundation of Illinois (42-50477)
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EXPERIMENTAL STATION | $20,000 |
| NEW MT CALVERY MB | $20,000 |
| CATHOLIC THEOLOGICAL UNION | $15,000 |
| SOUTH SHORE DRILL TEAM | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| FRANCISCAN OUTREACH | $15,000 |
| SISTER HOUSE | $15,000 |
| PROJECT VISION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO HOPES FOR KIDS | $10,000 |
| PACIFIC GARDEN MISSION | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF METROPOLITAN OF CHICAGO | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
16 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TETHE EXPERIMENTAL STATION7× · 2019–2025 · $125k · revenue +86%
- FOFRANCISCAN OUTREACH7× · 2019–2025 · $105k · revenue +101%
- SSISTERHOUSE7× · 2019–2025 · $93k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- LCLA CASA NORTEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +127%
- SLSt Leonard's Ministriesgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +74%
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.
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness (CCH) builds community power and advances racial equity through organizing, advocacy, legal assistance, and education to prevent and end homelessness because housing is a human right.
Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…
Erie neighborhood house provides the most comprehensive support to immigrant and low-income families in chicago. our mission is to empower our communitylatinx immigrants alongside individuals and families of all backgroundsthrough…
House of Good Shepherd serves with love and compassion women and children affected by domestic violence by offering a safe place with opportunities for emotional, educational and spiritual growth, giving hope and continued support for a…
We open doors to improve lives and uplift communities through educational, economic and support services.
Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.
Providing interim housing for men, women and children, social services, homeless services, emergency shelter, and housing in chicago community for the homeless, poor and disadvantaged.
Chicago Dream Centers mission is to REACH our community ONE person at a time by connecting them to resources that lead toward overcoming poverty, addiction, homelessness, human trafficking and hunger.
To disrupt cycles of poverty with dignified transitional housing that hoslistically connects young men to opportunities that create and sustain personal, professional and relational growth.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 22 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.
- Who funds THE EXPERIMENTAL STATION ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds SISTERHOUSE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for ↗
- Who funds LA CASA NORTE ↗
- Who funds Lawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School ↗
- Who funds The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds St Leonard's Ministries ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Helen V Brach Foundation · WP & HB White Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chapin-May Foundation of Illinois (42-50477) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chapin-May Foundation of Illinois (42-50477). Bigger dots raise more.
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