How much does Chicago Bulls Charities give?

Chicago Bulls Charities reported 14 itemized grants totaling $1,197,406, out of $1,288,941 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Chicago Bulls Charities fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (33%), Education (15%), Health (13%).

Who are Chicago Bulls Charities's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Children First Fund the Chicago Public Schools Foundation ($1.0M), Spectrios Institute for Low Vision ($972k), Push for Excellence Inc ($500k).

Does Chicago Bulls Charities fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Chicago Bulls Charities?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Robert R McCormick Foundation, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.

Where is Chicago Bulls Charities based?

Chicago Bulls Charities is based in IL.

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Chicago Bulls Charities

Chicago Bulls charities is committed to community violence prevention through four focus areas; education, investment, health & wellness, and access to opportunities.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 14
Itemized grants FY2025: 13
Organizations funded FY2024: 46%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.2M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $266,667
Organizations funded a year: 7 to 19; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $4.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 46% of the organizations Chicago Bulls Charities funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $270k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEmploymentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	13	$931k	62%
FY2024	13	$405k	46%
FY2023	19	$562k	68%
FY2022	12	$1.2M	75%
FY2021	17	$600k	59%
FY2020	11	$435k	18%
FY2019	9	$105k	44%
FY2018	7	$164k	43%

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What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$2.9MEducation$1.4MHealth$1.2MYouth Development$862kCommunity Improvement$835kRecreation & Sports$680kFood & Nutrition$315kCrime & Legal$233kOther$0

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
Children First Fund the Chicago Public Schools Foundation	$1,000,000	1	10%
Spectrios Institute for Low Vision	$971,980	1	46%
Push for Excellence Inc	$500,000	5	6%
Chicago Sports Alliance (McCormick Foundation)	$400,000	2	n/a
Greater Chicago Food Depository	$290,000	7	0%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago	$250,000	2	2%
After School Matters Inc	$250,000	1	1%
Operation Hope Inc	$242,761	1	1%
University of Chicago	$232,866	1	0%
Bright Star Community Outreach Corp	$212,000	8	2%

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All grantees of Chicago Bulls Charities by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Children First Fund the Chicago Public Schools Foundation	$1,000,000	1	10%
Spectrios Institute for Low Vision	$971,980	1	46%
Push for Excellence Inc	$500,000	5	6%
Chicago Sports Alliance (McCormick Foundation)	$400,000	2	n/a
Greater Chicago Food Depository	$290,000	7	0%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago	$250,000	2	2%
After School Matters Inc	$250,000	1	1%
Operation Hope Inc	$242,761	1	1%
University of Chicago	$232,866	1	0%
Bright Star Community Outreach Corp	$212,000	8	2%
Marwen Foundation Inc	$110,000	2	5%
Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago	$100,000	6	1%
Beyond the Ball Nfp	$80,000	1	5%
Hugs No Slugs Inc	$75,000	1	n/a
Anti-Defamation League	$60,000	1	0%
Gilda's Club Chicago	$60,000	6	1%
Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry	$50,000	2	0%
A Better Chicago	$50,000	1	0%
Growing Home Inc	$47,978	2	1%
MAAFA Redemption Project	$40,000	3	1%
Champs Male Mentoring Program - Chirise	$40,000	3	2%
Pilgrim Development Corp	$40,000	4	n/a
Jesse White Foundation Ltd	$30,000	1	20%
The 100 Club of Illinois	$30,000	3	1%
I Grow Chicago NFP	$30,000	2	2%
Chicago Mobile Makers	$30,000	1	11%
Chicago Cares Inc	$30,000	2	1%
Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc	$30,000	1	0%
NAMI Chicago	$25,000	1	1%
The Commercial Club of Chicago	$25,000	1	0%
Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Don'T Ever Give Up Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Dions Chicago Dream Inc Nfp	$25,000	2	0%
Bright Pink Nfp	$20,000	1	1%
Ingenuity Incorporated Chicago	$20,000	2	0%
Breakthrough Urban Ministries Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)	$20,000	1	0%
Noble Network of Charter Schools	$20,000	2	0%
The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago	$20,000	1	0%
Lawndale Christian Health Center	$20,000	1	0%
Chicago Blackhawks Foundation	$20,000	2	0%
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago	$15,000	1	n/a
Pilgrim Development Corporation	$15,000	1	n/a
Leadership Greater Chicago	$15,000	1	1%
Imentor Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Breathe Move Rest Inc	$13,500	1	34%
Community Health NFP	$12,500	1	0%
The Simple Good	$12,500	1	5%
The Bloc	$10,000	1	1%
Urban Juncture Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
Black Youth Leadership Project - MLK Honoree	$10,000	1	n/a
Noble Network	$10,000	1	n/a
Center on Halsted	$10,000	1	0%
National Museum of Mexican Art Fka Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum	$10,000	1	0%
The Healing Chicago	$10,000	1	n/a
Howard Brown Health Center	$10,000	1	0%
The Cara Program	$10,000	1	0%
The Gray Matter Experience Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Aerostar Avion Institute	$10,000	1	2%
Bunker Labs Nfp Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Kids Rank	$10,000	1	3%
Noahs Arc Foundation	$6,000	1	10%
North Shore Congregation Israel	$5,400	1	n/a

Chicago Bulls Charities supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 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

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 54.

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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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL40.4× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Robert R McCormick Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Vivo Foundation · Fulk Family Foundation Inc

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.

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About Chicago Bulls Charities

How much does Chicago Bulls Charities give?: Chicago Bulls Charities reported 14 itemized grants totaling $1,197,406, out of $1,288,941 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Chicago Bulls Charities fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (33%), Education (15%), Health (13%).
Who are Chicago Bulls Charities's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Children First Fund the Chicago Public Schools Foundation ($1.0M), Spectrios Institute for Low Vision ($972k), Push for Excellence Inc ($500k).
Does Chicago Bulls Charities fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Chicago Bulls Charities?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Robert R McCormick Foundation, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.
Where is Chicago Bulls Charities based?: Chicago Bulls Charities is based in IL.