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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 FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$455kHuman Services$402kEducation$357kReligion$285kFood & Nutrition$130kYouth Development$85kRecreation & Sports$60kArts & Culture$48kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $106k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $158k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISERICORDIA$35,000
SANTA'S VOLUNTEERS$30,000
WELLNESS HOUSE$17,500
PACIFIC GARDEN MISSION$15,000
CHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY$10,000
AID FOR WOMEN INC$10,000
CANAVAN RESEARCH ILLINOIS$10,000
CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
IMD GUEST HOUSE$10,000
THE CHICAGO SOUTHWEST SUBURBAN PARISH AND$10,000
NEW MOMS INC$7,500
Open Heart Magic$7,500
CHRIST THE KING JSUIT COLLEGE PREP$7,500
GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE$7,250
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS INC$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $410k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SANTA'S VOLUNTEERS: $30k → 14%SANTA'S VOLUNTEERS: $10k → 14%LOAVES AND FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICE: $10k → 7%SANTA'S VOLUNTEERS: $10k → 14%LOAVES AND FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICE: $10k → 7%LOAVES AND FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICE: $5k → 7%Santa's Volunteers: $8k → 14%LOAVES AND FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 7%LOAVES AND FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 7%Santa's Volunteers: $8k → 14%Open Heart Magic: $15k → 14%Sarah's Inn: $8k → 14%Open Heart Magic: $8k → 14%SARAH'S INN: $5k → 14%Open Heart Magic: $8k → 14%SARAH'S INN: $5k → 14%Open Heart Magic: $8k → 14%Open Heart Magic: $5k → 14%SARAH'S INN: $5k → 14%Open Heart Magic: $5k → 14%EVERY MOM: $13k → 14%EVERY MOM: $10k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $10k → 14%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $5k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $5k → 14%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $5k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $5k → 14%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $5k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $5k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $5k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $5k → 14%UCP Seguin of Greater Chicago: $10k → 14%UCP SEGUIN: $5k → 14%UCP SEGUIN: $5k → 14%NEW MOMS INC: $8k → 14%SARAH'S INN: $5k → 14%Connections for Abused Women & their Children (CAWC): $5k → 14%SARAH'S INN: $5k → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $5k → 14%SARAH'S INN: $5k → 14%NEW MOMS INC: $8k → 14%NEW MOMS INC: $8k → 14%NEW MOMS INC: $5k → 14%NEW MOMS INC: $5k → 14%NEW MOMS INC: $5k → 14%NEW MOMS INC: $5k → 14%ORCHARD VILLAGE: $5k → 14%NEW MOMS INC: $8k → 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 51 repeat orgs$150k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
28

Total granted

$1.8M
$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+19%

Still filing today

67%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterEmploymentOther
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

  • AF
    AID FOR WOMEN INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $70k · revenue +155%
  • WH
    Wellness House
    8× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +63%
  • OH
    OPEN HEART MAGIC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • GF
    Greater Food Depository
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • RT
    REBUILDING TOGETHER
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • AH
    ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGOgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +37%
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
Child Link Inc

Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…

Human Services
2
Austin Special Chicago

To provide for individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities.

Education
3
Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for

Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.

Education
4
Center for Family Services

Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…

Human Services
5
Depaul Community Services Inc

To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses

Health
6
Oak Leyden Developmental Services Inc

To help people with developmental disabilities meet life's challenges and reach their highest potential.

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7
Lakeside Community Committee

To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.

Human Services
8
Chicago Children's Advocacy Center

The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.

Crime & Legal
9
Center for Housing and Health

Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
10
Chicago Family Health Center Inc

Chicago family health center will promote health, work to prevent disease and provide treatment through the delivery of quality, accessible primary healtcare that is culturally sensitive, affordable, and responsive to community and…

—
11
Brian's House Inc

Brian's House specializes in the care and treatment of people with disabilities. Brian's House provides a broad range of human services to people with special needs and challenges. The primary goal is to maximize each individual's…

Human Services
12
House of the Good Shepherd

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Moms Inc; the most unlike its peers is Whats Your Forte Foundation. 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

57 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. 57 of the 85 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
43/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MISERICORDIA: $270,000 · OtherMISERICORDIACRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $90,000 · OtherCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOLPACIFIC GARDEN MISSION: $77,500 · OtherPACIFIC GARDEN MISSIONINFANT INC: $75,000 · OtherINFANT INCCHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY: $70,000 · OtherCHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMYAID FOR WOMEN INC: $70,000 · OtherAID FOR WOMEN INC+40 more: $472,750 · Other+40 moreSANTAS VOLUNTEERS: $65,000 · Human ServicesSANTAS VOLUNTEERSOPEN HEART MAGIC: $57,500 · Human ServicesOPEN HEART MAGICNEW MOMS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesNEW MOMS INCSARAH'S INN: $37,500 · Human ServicesSARAH'S INNLOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $37,500 · Human ServicesLOAVES & FISHES COMMUNIT…THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE NIGHT MINISTRYEVERYMOM NFP: $22,500 · Human ServicesEVERYMOM NFPUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO: $20,000 · Human ServicesSISTERHOUSE: $17,500 · Human ServicesMaryville Academy: $15,000 · Human Services+11 more: $52,285 · Human Services+11 moreCANAVAN RESEARCH ILLINOIS: $90,000 · HealthCANAVAN RESEA…Wellness House: $57,500 · HealthWellness Hous…IMD Guest House Foundation: $27,500 · HealthIMD Guest Hou…GUILDHAUS: $15,000 · HealthGUILDHAUSPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION OF CHICAGO: $12,500 · HealthPROSTATE CANC…L'ARCHE CHICAGO INC: $10,000 · Health+4 more: $17,500 · Health+4 moreTUTORING CHICAGO: $45,000 · Arts & CultureSNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureHorizons for Youth: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentRESTORING THE PATH: $37,500 · Recreation & SportsA HOUSE IN AUSTIN: $5,000 · EducationCristo Rey St Martin College Prep: $5,000 · EducationWhats Your Forte Foundation: $5,000 · EducationSAN MIGUEL FEBRES CORDERO SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · Education
Other$1,125,250Human Services$409,785Health$230,000Arts & Culture$50,000Youth Development$40,000Recreation & Sports$37,500Education$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCANAVAN RESEARCH ILLINOIS: $90,000 over 9y, 82% of budgetAID FOR WOMEN INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetSANTAS VOLUNTEERS: $65,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetWellness House: $57,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetOPEN HEART MAGIC: $57,500 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetNEW MOMS INC: $50,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTUTORING CHICAGO: $45,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetHorizons for Youth: $40,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSARAH'S INN: $37,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $37,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRESTORING THE PATH: $37,500 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetProvidence St Mel School: $35,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetIMD Guest House Foundation: $27,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMAINE-NILES ASSOCIATION OF SPECIAL RECREATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEVERYMOM NFP: $22,500 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSISTERHOUSE: $17,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetST COLETTA'S OF ILLINOIS: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGUILDHAUS: $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMaryville Academy: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION OF CHICAGO: $12,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetL'ARCHE CHICAGO INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLawrence Hall: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER NORTH SUBURBAN CHICAGO: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPACTT Learning Center: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAREER TRANSITIONS CENTER OF CHICAGO: $7,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPATHLIGHTS HUMAN SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA HOUSE IN AUSTIN: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGREAT LAKES ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTOTALLINK TO COMMUNITY INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAGING CARE CONNECTIONS: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMcDermott Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSearch Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORCHARD VILLAGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFace the Future Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBROOKS STRONG FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetDUPAGE PADS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN MIGUEL FEBRES CORDERO SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOPPORTUNITY KNOCKS INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPark Lawn Association Inc: $4,785 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSELF-HELP CLOSET & PANTRY OF DES PLAINES: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

  • Who funds CANAVAN RESEARCH ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds AID FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds SANTAS VOLUNTEERS ↗
  • Who funds Wellness House ↗
  • Who funds OPEN HEART MAGIC ↗
  • Who funds NEW MOMS INC ↗
  • Who funds TUTORING CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds Horizons for Youth ↗
  • Who funds SARAH'S INN ↗
  • Who funds LOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds RESTORING THE PATH ↗
  • Who funds Providence St Mel School ↗
  • Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds IMD Guest House Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MAINE-NILES ASSOCIATION OF SPECIAL RECREATION ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
  • Who funds EVERYMOM NFP ↗
  • Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds SISTERHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds ST COLETTA'S OF ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds GUILDHAUS ↗
  • Who funds Maryville Academy ↗
  • Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds PADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME ↗
  • Who funds L'ARCHE CHICAGO INC ↗

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.

United Way of Metropo…The Coleman Foundatio…The Chicago Community…Helen V Brach Foundat…Dr Scholl FoundationGeorge M Eisenberg Fo…Robert R McCormick Fo…AbbVie FoundationRice FoundationAndrew and Alice Fisc…The Service Club of C…WP & HB White Foundat…
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL41.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Board of Trade Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chicago Board of Trade Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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

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    Find your warmest path to Chicago Board of Trade Foundation 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 85 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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