Illinois · Private foundation
Chicago CRED Inc
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.
- $9.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 44
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $21M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations Chicago CRED Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $878k 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 | 40 | $11M | 33% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $12M | 41% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $9.6M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $9.7M | 28% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $9.1M | 47% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $10M | 25% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $15M | 24% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $7.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago Community Foundation | $16,455,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Inner-City Muslim Action Network | $6,856,724 | 8 | 7% |
| Metropolitan Family Services | $4,584,008 | 5 | 3% |
| Institute for Nonviolence Chicago | $4,434,450 | 8 | 14% |
| After School Matters Inc | $3,945,145 | 5 | 6% |
| I Am Able Center for Family Development | $2,987,758 | 4 | 33% |
| Alliance of Local Service Organizations | $2,649,510 | 8 | 9% |
| Youth Peace Center of Roseland | $1,450,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Children First Fund the Chicago Public Schools Foundation | $1,163,789 | 3 | 9% |
| Acclivus Inc | $922,500 | 6 | 2% |
Show all 60 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($31M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Chicago CRED Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 44 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: The Chicago Community Trust · Robert R McCormick Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Chicago Beyond Inc · The Joyce Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · University of Chicago Medical Center · Forefront · Field Foundation of Illinois · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Fulk Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Chicago CRED Inc
- How much does Chicago CRED Inc give?
- Chicago CRED Inc reported 40 grants totaling $9,312,211 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Chicago CRED Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (30%), Community Improvement (18%), Youth Development (18%).
- Who are Chicago CRED Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Chicago Community Foundation ($16M), Inner-City Muslim Action Network ($6.9M), Metropolitan Family Services ($4.6M).
- Does Chicago CRED Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Chicago CRED 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 CRED Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Robert R McCormick Foundation, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc.
- Where is Chicago CRED Inc based?
- Chicago CRED Inc is based in IL.
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