Illinois · Private foundation
Chicago Board of Trade Foundation
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.
- $264k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Chicago Board of Trade Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 32 | $264k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $219k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $238k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $113k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $283k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $218k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $202k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $190k | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cristo Rey Jesuit High School | $90,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Canavan Research Illinois | $90,000 | 9 | 82% |
| Pacific Garden Mission | $77,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Chicago Jesuit Academy | $70,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Aid for Women Inc | $70,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Santas Volunteers | $65,000 | 5 | 19% |
| Wellness House | $57,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Open Heart Magic | $57,500 | 8 | 3% |
| New Moms Inc | $50,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Tutoring Chicago | $45,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 63 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($615k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Chicago Board of Trade Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 54 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Coleman Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Helen V Brach Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Robert R McCormick Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Rice Foundation · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · The Service Club of Chicago · WP & HB White Foundation
How this is measured
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About Chicago Board of Trade Foundation
- How much does Chicago Board of Trade Foundation give?
- Chicago Board of Trade Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $263,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Chicago Board of Trade Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (24%), Human Services (21%), Education (19%).
- Who are Chicago Board of Trade Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cristo Rey Jesuit High School ($90k), Canavan Research Illinois ($90k), Pacific Garden Mission ($78k).
- Does Chicago Board of Trade Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Chicago Board of Trade Foundation 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 Board of Trade Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, The Coleman Foundation Inc, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Chicago Board of Trade Foundation based?
- Chicago Board of Trade Foundation is based in IL.
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