Illinois · Public charity
Chicago Wolves Charities
Raising funds for distribution to tax exempt entities.
- $184k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $180k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $23,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $55k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Chicago Wolves Charities 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; $45k 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 | 20 | $180k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $219k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $246k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $239k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $13k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $161k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $245k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $246k | 14% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Easter Seals Inc | $180,500 | 8 | 0% |
| A Silver Lining Foundation | $133,900 | 9 | 2% |
| The 100 Club of Illinois | $88,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Girls in the Game Nfp | $79,200 | 8 | 1% |
| Facing Forward to End Homelessness | $75,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Chicago | $73,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Special Olympics Inc | $73,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Willow House | $72,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation | $71,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Lexi Kazian Foundation - Helping From Heaven | $70,500 | 8 | n/a |
Show all 43 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Chicago Wolves Charities supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 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: AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Service Club of Chicago · Motorola Solutions Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Assurant Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Tawani Charitable Distribution Fund · Alliant Credit Union Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation
How this is measured
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About Chicago Wolves Charities
- How much does Chicago Wolves Charities give?
- Chicago Wolves Charities reported 20 itemized grants totaling $179,500, out of $183,550 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Chicago Wolves Charities fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (46%), Human Services (21%), Youth Development (7%).
- Who are Chicago Wolves Charities's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Easter Seals Inc ($181k), A Silver Lining Foundation ($134k), The 100 Club of Illinois ($89k).
- Does Chicago Wolves Charities fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Chicago Wolves Charities?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
- Where is Chicago Wolves Charities based?
- Chicago Wolves Charities is based in IL.
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