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Chicago Cubs Charities
The mission of cubs charities is to mobilize the power of sport to champion youth, families, and communities. Cubs charities achieves this through sports-based youth development and academic programming, investments in safe places to play, and strategic grantmaking. The vision of cubs charities is to be recognized locally and globally…
- $3.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 53
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $3.0M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $815,837
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 68
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Chicago Cubs Charities funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 | 50 | $2.2M | 22% |
| FY2024 | 50 | $1.9M | 36% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $711k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $840k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 47 | $1.7M | 26% |
| FY2020 | 56 | $4.0M | 29% |
| FY2019 | 65 | $2.3M | 23% |
| FY2018 | 68 | $5.0M | 57% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago Park District | $2,870,369 | 4 | n/a |
| Local Initiatives Support Corporation | $2,121,488 | 3 | 1% |
| Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation | $1,620,929 | 3 | 19% |
| Anthony Rizzo Family Foundation | $1,511,244 | 6 | 26% |
| Brainup Inc | $1,297,214 | 2 | n/a |
| Chicago Connected | $965,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Good Sports Inc | $662,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Respect 90 Foundation | $508,125 | 3 | 98% |
| United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc | $500,400 | 1 | 1% |
| Advocate Charitable Foundation | $303,121 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 170 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Chicago Cubs Charities supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 134 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: Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Lloyd a Fry Foundation
How this is measured
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About Chicago Cubs Charities
- How much does Chicago Cubs Charities give?
- Chicago Cubs Charities reported 53 itemized grants totaling $2,993,330, out of $3,241,058 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 68 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Chicago Cubs Charities fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (35%), Health (18%), Education (15%).
- Who are Chicago Cubs Charities's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Chicago Park District ($2.9M), Local Initiatives Support Corporation ($2.1M), Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation ($1.6M).
- Does Chicago Cubs Charities fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Chicago Cubs Charities?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Circle of Service Foundation, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, Arie and Ida Crown Memorial.
- Where is Chicago Cubs Charities based?
- Chicago Cubs Charities is based in IL.
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