Illinois · Private foundation
Chicago Beyond Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $9.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2024
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 67
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $880k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 83% of the organizations Chicago Beyond Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 30 | $9.9M | 67% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $10M | 83% |
| FY2021 | 67 | $3.8M | 79% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $5.3M | 81% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $9.0M | 33% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $6.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resist Inc | $3,200,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Onegoal | $3,150,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Saga Innovations Inc | $2,797,908 | 2 | 19% |
| Life After Justice | $2,351,000 | 3 | 54% |
| University of Chicago | $2,153,047 | 4 | 0% |
| Chicago Cred Inc | $2,074,499 | 3 | 4% |
| Children First Fund the Chicago Public Schools Foundation | $1,880,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Chicago South Side Birth Center | $1,500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Inner-City Muslim Action Network | $1,483,063 | 3 | 6% |
| Lawndale Christian Legal Center | $1,326,223 | 3 | 21% |
Show all 116 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Chicago Beyond Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 26 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 98 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Field Foundation of Illinois · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The Joyce Foundation · Crossroads Fund Inc · Forefront · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Chicago Foundation for Women · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Woods Fund of Chicago
How this is measured
About Chicago Beyond Inc
- How much does Chicago Beyond Inc give?
- Chicago Beyond Inc reported 30 grants totaling $9,949,333 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 67 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Chicago Beyond Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (24%), Crime & Legal (17%), Youth Development (14%).
- Who are Chicago Beyond Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Resist Inc ($3.2M), Onegoal ($3.1M), Saga Innovations Inc ($2.8M).
- Does Chicago Beyond Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Chicago Beyond Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Chicago Beyond Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Field Foundation of Illinois, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.
- Where is Chicago Beyond Inc based?
- Chicago Beyond Inc is based in IL.
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