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Chicago Association of REALTORS
The Chicago Association of REALTORS, the "voice for real estate" in chicago, represents 17,400 members from all real estate specialties, including commercial sales, development, property management, appraisals, auctions, and residential sales, with events and services to promote unity among members, education, and research.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $92,865 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $98,765 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,900 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $81k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL PUBLIC HOUSING MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| Asian Real Estate Association of America | $20,000 |
| Chicago Association of Realtors Educational Foundation | $19,435 |
| Illinois Realtors | $16,500 |
| National Association of Realtors | $7,830 |
| Realtors Political Action Committee of Illinois | $4,100 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of your 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 +21% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- CAChicago Association of REALTORS Educational Foundation Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $543k · revenue +55% · 50% of their budget
- IRILLINOIS REALTORS4× · 2019–2024 · $59k · revenue +17%
- DRDEARBORN REAL ESTATE BOARD AKA DEARBORN REALTIST BOARD6× · 2018–2023 · $54k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- RURealtor Universityone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -97%
- IRILLINOIS REAL ESTATE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -26%
- CVCHICAGO VIDEO PROJECTone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -89%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Association of Realtors Educational Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Realtors to the Rescue Nfp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 20 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.
- Who funds Chicago Association of REALTORS Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS REALTORS ↗
- Who funds DEARBORN REAL ESTATE BOARD AKA DEARBORN REALTIST BOARD ↗
- Who funds Realtor University ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS REAL ESTATE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The National Public Housing Museum ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO VIDEO PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Asian Real Estate Association of America ↗
- Who funds NAHREP Subsidiary Incorporated ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COUNCIL OF REALTORS ↗
- Who funds Realtors Relief Foundation ↗
- Who funds Roosevelt University ↗
- Who funds National Association of Realtors ↗
- Who funds THE MAGNIFICENT MILE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Realtors to the Rescue NFP ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO ALDERMANIC BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust
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 Chicago Association of REALTORS 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.
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