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Chicago Partnership for Church Planting

Partnering with local leaders, churches, and organizations to help make jesus visible in every neighborhod in chicago.

$87k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Itemized grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
71%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$68k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$16,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$19,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 7
FY2023 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$418k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 71% of the organizations Chicago Partnership for Church Planting funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$68k40%
FY20247$122k71%
FY20234$51kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Religion$174kArts & Culture$48kHealth$9kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Renewal Church of Chicago Inc$66,0003n/a
The Brook -An Evangelical Free Church$48,0003n/a
Legacy Disciple$43,00025%
Love Global Ministries Inc$19,000132%
A Ray Of Hope On Earth$16,0001n/a
Zara Church Inc$9,0001n/a
Chicago Metropolitan Baptist Association$6,0001n/a
Missio Dei Chicago$6,0001n/a

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($27k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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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How do I get to Chicago Partnership for Church Planting?

Find your warmest path to Chicago Partnership for Church Planting 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.

About Chicago Partnership for Church Planting

How much does Chicago Partnership for Church Planting give?
Chicago Partnership for Church Planting reported 5 itemized grants totaling $67,500, out of $86,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
What does Chicago Partnership for Church Planting fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (73%), Arts & Culture (20%), Health (4%).
Who are Chicago Partnership for Church Planting's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Renewal Church of Chicago Inc ($66k), The Brook -An Evangelical Free Church ($48k), Legacy Disciple ($43k).
Does Chicago Partnership for Church Planting fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Chicago Partnership for Church Planting?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Chicago Partnership for Church Planting based?
Chicago Partnership for Church Planting is based in IL.

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 11 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 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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