Illinois · Public charity
Chicago White Sox Charities Inc
Chicago white sox charities ("cwsc") provides financial and emotional support to chicago-based organizations, including those leading the fight against cancer, dedicated to improving the lives of youth through recreation and education, and those offering support to children and families in crisis. With the generous support of white sox…
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2024
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 52%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $532,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $7.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 52% of the organizations Chicago White Sox Charities Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 89% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 24 | $1.9M | 58% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $2.9M | 52% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $485k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $385k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $415k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $682k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $598k | 53% |
| FY2017 | 19 | $806k | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dalmatian Dreams Dba Dream Foundation | $1,000,000 | 1 | 29% |
| Stand Up to Cancer | $1,000,000 | 1 | 3% |
| University of Chicago | $749,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Push for Excellence Inc | $600,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Rush University Medical Center | $561,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Chicago Baseball Cancer Charities Inc | $542,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Northwestern Memorial Healthcare | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago | $227,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Citizen Education Fund Inc | $205,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $179,000 | 6 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Chicago White Sox Charities Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 65 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: Robert R McCormick Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Coleman Foundation Inc · Chicago Bulls Charities · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Major League Baseball Charities Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Chicago White Sox Charities Inc
- How much does Chicago White Sox Charities Inc give?
- Chicago White Sox Charities Inc reported 27 grants totaling $2,635,856 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Chicago White Sox Charities Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (34%), Philanthropy (32%), Recreation & Sports (10%).
- Who are Chicago White Sox Charities Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Dalmatian Dreams Dba Dream Foundation ($1.0M), Stand Up to Cancer ($1.0M), University of Chicago ($749k).
- Does Chicago White Sox Charities Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Chicago White Sox Charities Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Robert R McCormick Foundation, AbbVie Foundation, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.
- Where is Chicago White Sox Charities Inc based?
- Chicago White Sox Charities Inc is based in IL.
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