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Chicago Votes

Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government, through civic education, to young people from all corners of the city. We're creating a civic culture…

$88k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Itemized grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$61k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$950k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Chicago Votes funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’21’22’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesSocial ScienceOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$61k100%
FY20242$20k100%
FY20221$9k0%
FY20215$40k60%
FY20196$44k17%
FY20187$50kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Youth Development$64kPublic Benefit$40kCommunity Improvement$18kArts & Culture$18kCivil Rights$16kSocial Science$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
World Organizing Institute$50,0001n/a
Logan Square Neighborhood Association$26,07231%
Street-Level Youth Media$17,6792n/a
The People's Lobby Education Institute$17,67922%
Urban Gateways$17,65320%
Young Invincibles$12,67920%
Illinois Pirg Education Fund Inc$12,14322%
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights$11,42920%
Mud Theatre Project$11,00019%
Southside Together Organizing For Power$10,00012%
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All grantees of Chicago Votes by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
World Organizing Institute$50,0001n/a
Logan Square Neighborhood Association$26,07231%
Street-Level Youth Media$17,6792n/a
The People's Lobby Education Institute$17,67922%
Urban Gateways$17,65320%
Young Invincibles$12,67920%
Illinois Pirg Education Fund Inc$12,14322%
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights$11,42920%
Mud Theatre Project$11,00019%
Southside Together Organizing For Power$10,00012%
Healthy Hood Chicago$10,00011%
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Chicago$6,4291n/a
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc$5,00010%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($16k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Chicago Votes supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLogan Square Neighborhood Association: $26,072 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe People's Lobby Education Institute: $17,679 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetUrban Gateways: $17,653 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYoung Invincibles: $12,679 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIllinois Pirg Education Fund Inc: $12,143 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetIllinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights: $11,429 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMud Theatre Project: $11,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetSouthside Together Organizing For Power: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHealthy Hood Chicago: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAsian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Grand Victoria Founda…The Joyce FoundationThe Chicago Community…Woods Fund of ChicagoJulian Grace Foundati…Field Foundation of I…Circle of Service Fou…New Venture FundWieboldt FoundationThe Albert Pick Jr Fu…Alphawood FoundationForefront
Grand Victoria FoundationIL19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Victoria Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Woods Fund of Chicago · Julian Grace Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Circle of Service Foundation · New Venture Fund · Wieboldt Foundation · The Albert Pick Jr Fund · Alphawood Foundation · Forefront

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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About Chicago Votes

How much does Chicago Votes give?
Chicago Votes reported 2 itemized grants totaling $61,000, out of $87,871 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Chicago Votes fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (39%), Public Benefit (24%), Community Improvement (11%).
Who are Chicago Votes's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: World Organizing Institute ($50k), Logan Square Neighborhood Association ($26k), Street-Level Youth Media ($18k).
Does Chicago Votes fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Chicago Votes?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Victoria Foundation, The Joyce Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
Where is Chicago Votes based?
Chicago Votes 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 15 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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