· Public charity
Chicago Urban League
The Chicago Urban League works to foster economic empowerment, cultivate leadership, and dismantle systemic barriers in the effort to drive lasting equity and prosperity for Black Chicago.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DePaul University | $10,000 |
| Howard University | $10,000 |
| University of Southern Califo | $10,000 |
| Iowa State University | $10,000 |
| University of Michigan | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,250 |
| North Carolina University | $6,250 |
| Akwa-Ibom State Polytechnic | $6,250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BIBURST INTO BOOKS2× · 2021–2022 · $35k · revenue +59%
- AAGRICULTURE2× · 2021–2022 · $35k
- BLBUCKETZ LLC2× · 2021–2022 · $18k
Funded once
- CTCHICAGO TRENDone grant, 2021 · $150k
- PFPremier Fitness Centers Ione grant, 2021 · $40k
- OOOm on the Range Yoga Studioone grant, 2021 · $40k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
To put christian principles into practice that build a healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.
How this is measured
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 332 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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: Women's Business Development Center · National Council of YMCAs of the USA · The Chicago Community Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chicago Urban League funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chicago Urban League. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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