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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.

$99k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$728kCommunity Improvement$132kRecreation & Sports$42kEducation$38kArts & Culture$33kPublic Safety & Disaster$14kCivil Rights$10kAnimals$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $92,865, the rows itemized in this filing. The $98,765 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,900 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $81k
$19,435
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Asian Real Estate Association of America: $20k → 11%Illinois State Chapter of The Women's Council of Realtors: $10k → 7%Illinois Real Estate Education Foundation: $25k → 11%Roosevelt University: $13k → 14%National Association of Hispanic RE Professionals: $9k → 11%Realtors Political Action Committee of Illinois: $10k → 11%Chicago Video Project: $25k → 14%National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals: $8k → 11%Realtors Political Action Committee of Illinois: $10k → 11%Real Estate to the Rescue: $7k → 14%Realtors Political Action Committee of Illinois: $10k → 11%Chicago Association of Realtors Education Foundation: $104k → 14%Realtors Political Action Committee of Illinois: $10k → 11%Chicago Association of Realtors Education Foundation: $99k → 14%Realtors Political Action Committee of Illinois: $10k → 11%Chicago Association of Realtors Education Foundation: $91k → 14%Realtors Political Action Committee of Illinois: $10k → 11%Chicago Association of Realtors Educational Foundation Inc: $91k → 14%Realtors Political Action Committee of Illinois: $6k → 11%Chicago Association of Realtors Education Foundation: $89k → 14%Illinois Association of Realtors: $15k → 11%Realtor University: $50k → 14%CHICAGO ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $31k → 14%Chicago Parks Foundation: $20k → 14%Chicago Association of Realtors Educational Foundation: $19k → 14%Chicago Association of Realtors Educational Foundation Inc: $19k → 14%Chicago Parks Foundation: $12k → 14%Chicago Parks Foundation: $10k → 14%Women's Council of Chicago: $9k → 14%National Association of Realtors: $8k → 14%Realtor Relief Foundation: $8k → 14%The Magnificent Mile Association: $8k → 14%Realtors Relief Foundation: $6k → 14%Women's Council of Realtors: $6k → 14%Dearborn Real Estate Board: $12k → 14%Dearborn Real Estate Board Inc: $11k → 14%Dearborn Real Estate Board Inc: $8k → 14%Dearborn Real Estate Board Inc: $8k → 14%Dearborn Real Estate Board: $8k → 14%Dearborn Real Estate Board Inc: $8k → 14%Chicago Aldermanic Black Caucus Foundation: $6k → 14%NATIONAL PUBLIC HOUSING MUSEUM: $25k → 14%Greater Chicago Food Depository: $6k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$812k · 8 repeat orgs$202k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
9

Total granted

$812k
$149k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
0%

Still filing today

63%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CA
    Chicago Association of REALTORS Educational Foundation Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $543k · revenue +55% · 50% of their budget
  • IR
    ILLINOIS REALTORS
    4× · 2019–2024 · $59k · revenue +17%
  • DR
    DEARBORN REAL ESTATE BOARD AKA DEARBORN REALTIST BOARD
    6× · 2018–2023 · $54k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • RU
    Realtor University
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -97%
  • CV
    CHICAGO VIDEO PROJECT
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -89%
  • IR
    ILLINOIS REAL ESTATE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -26%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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…

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2
Southwestern Illinois Board of Realtors

To provide resources, advocacy and education for a diverse community of professionals and is dedicated to the highest standards of service in a changing real estate market.

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3
Central Illinois Board of Realtors

To provide support to realtors and those afffiliated with real estate sales. to facilitate membership in the national association of realtors, to provide a safe, secure way for members of the public to provide access to homes and…

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4
Greater Boston Real Estate Board

The Greater Boston Real Estate Board was incorporated as a not-for-profit organization to advocate, educate, inform, and serve members of the real estate industry. The Board continues to foster and promote high ethical standards in all…

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5
Nebraska Realtors Association

Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members

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6
National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Profe

Purpose is to promote Hispanic home ownership by providing educational resources and activities for real estate professionals serving Hispanic consumers

Community Improvement
7
National Association of Real Estate Brokers Inc

Nareb is an association of african american real estate professionals that participate in meaningful legal challenges and supports legislative initiatives that ensure the availability of fair and affordable housing for all americans

Community Improvement
8
Indiana Association of Realtors Inc

To serve its members and local associations by providing leadership programs and services to sustain a healthy real estate market in indiana. in providing these services, the association will raise the standards of the real estate…

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9
Realtors Association of Central Indiana Inc

To enhance the opportunity of its members to provide cooperative, professional, ethical real estate services to the community while achieving their business objectives

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10
Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors Foundation Inc
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11
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
12
Durham Regional Association of Realtors Inc

To promote real estate by providing ethical, professional services to its members and consumers seeking real estate information

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Association of Realtors Educational Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 20 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/18
Grantees still filing
9/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Chicago Association of REALTORS Educational Foundation Inc: $543,070 · EducationChicago Association of REALTORS Educational Foundation IncILLINOIS REAL ESTATE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationRealtors Political Action Committee of Illinois: $70,200 · OtherRealtors Political Action Co…ILLINOIS REALTORS: $59,000 · OtherILLINOIS REALTORSRealtor University: $50,000 · OtherRealtor UniversityNAHREP Subsidiary Incorporated: $16,161 · OtherNAHREP Subsidiary Incorporat…CHICAGO COUNCIL OF REALTORS: $14,500 · OtherCHICAGO COUNCIL OF REALTORSRoosevelt University: $12,500 · OtherIllinois State Chapter of The Women's Council of Realtors: $10,000 · Other+3 more: $19,830 · Other+3 moreDEARBORN REAL ESTATE BOARD AKA DEARBORN REALTIST BOARD: $54,055 · Community ImprovementDEARBORN …Asian Real Estate Association of America: $20,000 · Community ImprovementAsian Rea…THE MAGNIFICENT MILE ASSOCIATION: $7,500 · Community ImprovementTHE MAGNI…CHICAGO VIDEO PROJECT: $25,000 · Arts & CultureThe National Public Housing Museum: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION: $42,000 · Recreation & SportsRealtors Relief Foundation: $13,500 · Public Safety & DisasterRealtors to the Rescue NFP: $7,000 · Animals
Education$568,070Other$252,191Community Improvement$81,555Arts & Culture$50,000Recreation & Sports$42,000Public Safety & Disaster$13,500Animals$7,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChicago Association of REALTORS Educational Foundation Inc: $543,070 over 8y, 50% of budgetILLINOIS REALTORS: $59,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDEARBORN REAL ESTATE BOARD AKA DEARBORN REALTIST BOARD: $54,055 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetRealtor University: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION: $42,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCHICAGO VIDEO PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetThe National Public Housing Museum: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetILLINOIS REAL ESTATE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetAsian Real Estate Association of America: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNAHREP Subsidiary Incorporated: $16,161 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRealtors Relief Foundation: $13,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRoosevelt University: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Association of Realtors: $7,830 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAGNIFICENT MILE ASSOCIATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO ALDERMANIC BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

The Chicago Community…
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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Chicago Association of REALTORS funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chicago Association of REALTORS. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Chicago Association of REALTORS?

    Find your warmest path to Chicago Association of REALTORS through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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