Illinois · Public charity
Chicago Fire Foundation
The foundation is dedicated to promoting the sport of soccer and providing educational and recreational opportunities to improve the lives of youth throughout the chicago area.
- $540k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Chicago Fire Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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 | 4 | $530k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $640k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $515k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $780k | 71% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $575k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $102k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $151k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $50k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Austin Community Center | $2,500,000 | 5 | 15% |
| United States Soccer Foundation Inc | $350,500 | 5 | 1% |
| United Elite Sc | $140,000 | 1 | 56% |
| Chicago Park District | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Westfield Youth Soccer Association | $45,000 | 1 | 1% |
| All Kids Play | $45,000 | 2 | 17% |
| Good Sports Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Rush University Medical Center | $26,652 | 1 | 0% |
| Chicago Gateway Green Committee | $25,000 | 1 | 10% |
| United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Austin Community Center | $2,500,000 | 5 | 15% |
| United States Soccer Foundation Inc | $350,500 | 5 | 1% |
| United Elite Sc | $140,000 | 1 | 56% |
| Chicago Park District | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Westfield Youth Soccer Association | $45,000 | 1 | 1% |
| All Kids Play | $45,000 | 2 | 17% |
| Good Sports Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Rush University Medical Center | $26,652 | 1 | 0% |
| Chicago Gateway Green Committee | $25,000 | 1 | 10% |
| United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Common Goal USA Inc | $17,750 | 1 | 3% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $17,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Onechicagofund | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Center for Healing and Justice Through Sport | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| City Year Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Chicago Fire Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 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.
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How this is measured
About Chicago Fire Foundation
- How much does Chicago Fire Foundation give?
- Chicago Fire Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $540,084 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Chicago Fire Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (96%), Health (1%), Environment (1%).
- Who are Chicago Fire Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: North Austin Community Center ($2.5M), United States Soccer Foundation Inc ($351k), United Elite Sc ($140k).
- Does Chicago Fire Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Chicago Fire Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Chicago Fire Foundation based?
- Chicago Fire Foundation is based in IL.
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