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Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce
The Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce combines the power of people, with our legacy of leadership and business advocacy, to drive a dynamic economy. We focus on delivering value for our members, making chicagoland a world-class place to live and work.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 50
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,736
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $77,361
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 50
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesEducationHealthFood & NutritionEmploymentAnimalsOther
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 year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 50 | $1.1M | 34% |
| FY2024 | 45 | $1.2M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 50 | $1.3M | 40% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $1.4M | 56% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $429k | 59% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $799k | 83% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $148k | n/a |
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What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Employment$4.4MHealth$800kYouth Development$359kScience & Tech$344kFood & Nutrition$155kPublic Safety & Disaster$129kAnimals$66kEducation$56kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ford Motor Company | $612,145 | 4 | n/a |
| Novolex | $414,093 | 4 | n/a |
| The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired | $368,081 | 4 | 0% |
| John B Sanfilippo & Sons Inc | $302,214 | 4 | n/a |
| Manhattan Mechanical Services | $270,551 | 4 | n/a |
| G&W Electric Co | $251,157 | 6 | n/a |
| Vital Proteins | $178,115 | 3 | n/a |
| LSL Healthcare Inc | $172,715 | 3 | n/a |
| Antunes | $147,491 | 2 | n/a |
| Hydro-Gear | $136,995 | 7 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ford Motor Company | $612,145 | 4 | n/a |
| Novolex | $414,093 | 4 | n/a |
| The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired | $368,081 | 4 | 0% |
| John B Sanfilippo & Sons Inc | $302,214 | 4 | n/a |
| Manhattan Mechanical Services | $270,551 | 4 | n/a |
| G&W Electric Co | $251,157 | 6 | n/a |
| Vital Proteins | $178,115 | 3 | n/a |
| LSL Healthcare Inc | $172,715 | 3 | n/a |
| Antunes | $147,491 | 2 | n/a |
| Hydro-Gear | $136,995 | 7 | n/a |
| Superior Ambulance | $129,411 | 3 | n/a |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $121,997 | 3 | 0% |
| Youth Guidance | $118,910 | 3 | 0% |
| Sysmex America Inc | $105,071 | 4 | n/a |
| Kids Above All Illinois | $103,120 | 4 | 0% |
| Omron Automation Americas | $102,047 | 4 | n/a |
| Ingredion Inc | $96,720 | 2 | n/a |
| ITW Deltar Motion | $96,476 | 5 | n/a |
| Blommer Chocolate Factory | $83,387 | 2 | n/a |
| Asi | $80,914 | 1 | 1% |
| USIC Locating Services LLC | $70,000 | 1 | n/a |
| SWD Inc | $68,854 | 5 | n/a |
| Sonoco | $68,421 | 3 | n/a |
| The Cara Program | $67,518 | 2 | 0% |
| GSF USA Inc | $66,999 | 3 | n/a |
| Eligo Energy LLC | $65,705 | 2 | n/a |
| Lincoln Park Zoological Society | $65,560 | 3 | 0% |
| FIS Global | $64,367 | 1 | n/a |
| John Crane Inc | $63,529 | 5 | n/a |
| Creospan | $61,315 | 4 | n/a |
| Unytite Inc | $60,698 | 5 | n/a |
| Old World Industries | $56,217 | 2 | n/a |
| Howard Brown Health Center | $53,341 | 3 | 0% |
| Superior Graphite Co | $51,007 | 5 | n/a |
| Sg360 | $49,920 | 3 | n/a |
| West Monroe Partners LLC | $48,690 | 1 | n/a |
| ZEUS Battery Products (Power Cell LLC) | $48,067 | 6 | n/a |
| HCC Inc | $43,558 | 2 | n/a |
| Combined Metals of Chicago LLC | $43,413 | 4 | n/a |
| Flavorchem | $42,942 | 4 | n/a |
| Acme Finishing Company | $40,004 | 5 | n/a |
| Friedman & Huey Associates | $39,570 | 4 | n/a |
| Misumi USA | $37,663 | 2 | n/a |
| Flex-N-Gate Chicago | $36,761 | 3 | n/a |
| St Augustine College | $34,472 | 1 | 0% |
| Miller Cooper & Company | $32,206 | 3 | n/a |
| Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill | $31,966 | 1 | 0% |
| Illinois Business Innovation Services | $31,500 | 1 | 5% |
| M-Wave International | $28,059 | 1 | n/a |
| City Colleges of Chicago Foundation | $28,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rtc | $27,925 | 3 | n/a |
| Caramel Crisp LLC | $27,068 | 3 | n/a |
| Vapor Bus International | $26,323 | 1 | n/a |
| PharmaCann Inc | $23,015 | 2 | n/a |
| Progressive Components | $22,976 | 2 | n/a |
| Gateway Foundation Inc | $21,825 | 1 | 0% |
| Elkay Manufacturing | $21,575 | 1 | n/a |
| Federal Signal Corporation | $21,120 | 1 | n/a |
| SteelFab Inc | $21,083 | 2 | n/a |
| Atlas Toyota Material Handling | $20,381 | 1 | n/a |
| Sternberg Lighting | $20,149 | 1 | n/a |
| Magnet-Schultz of America Inc | $19,938 | 2 | n/a |
| Sunstar Americas Inc | $19,696 | 2 | n/a |
| Authentico Foods Inc | $19,660 | 2 | n/a |
| First Bank Chicago | $19,016 | 2 | n/a |
| JP Architects | $18,110 | 1 | n/a |
| Corydon Converting Company | $17,955 | 3 | n/a |
| Etnyre International Ltd | $17,850 | 2 | n/a |
| Phmg | $17,493 | 1 | n/a |
| OSI Group | $17,418 | 1 | n/a |
| Quantum Plastics | $16,930 | 2 | n/a |
| Premier International | $16,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Principal Manufacturing | $16,264 | 2 | n/a |
| The Morey Corporation | $16,165 | 1 | n/a |
| PNA Molding | $15,781 | 2 | n/a |
| Prince Industries | $15,760 | 1 | n/a |
| Fasco Inc | $15,350 | 2 | n/a |
| Bergstrom Inc | $15,168 | 2 | n/a |
| Studio ARQ LLC | $15,050 | 1 | n/a |
| Benedictine Society of St Bede | $14,950 | 1 | n/a |
| Cresta Solutions LLC | $14,563 | 2 | n/a |
| Metco Treating and Development Company | $14,373 | 1 | n/a |
| Tella Tool and Manufacturing Co | $14,340 | 2 | n/a |
| Wi-Tronix | $14,077 | 2 | n/a |
| Bucher Hydraulics Inc | $14,023 | 1 | n/a |
| Grayhill Inc | $13,721 | 2 | n/a |
| Freeman Seating Company | $13,420 | 2 | n/a |
| Hearthside Food Solutions | $13,240 | 1 | n/a |
| Morreale Communications | $12,920 | 2 | n/a |
| NEP Electronics Inc | $12,488 | 1 | n/a |
| Advanced Technical Services | $11,834 | 1 | n/a |
| Inx | $11,555 | 1 | n/a |
| GreenTarget Global Group LLC | $11,425 | 1 | n/a |
| Atlas Tube Inc | $11,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Hydac Technology Corp | $10,953 | 1 | n/a |
| Switchboard ApparatusSAI | $10,670 | 1 | n/a |
| Burgess-Norton Manufacturing Co | $10,170 | 1 | n/a |
| Wiegel Tool Works | $10,130 | 1 | n/a |
| Winpack | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Harborside Illinois Grown Medicine | $9,725 | 1 | n/a |
| The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago | $9,353 | 1 | 0% |
| Fox Valley Shooting Club | $9,320 | 1 | n/a |
| Strategia Consulting LLC | $9,229 | 1 | n/a |
| Cassiday Schade LLP | $9,025 | 1 | n/a |
| FUCHS Lubricants | $8,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Sterling Site Access Solutions | $8,460 | 1 | n/a |
| Sheet Metal Supply | $8,274 | 1 | n/a |
| Jeff Stogsdill State Farm | $8,193 | 1 | n/a |
| Stephanie Lowe LLC | $7,875 | 1 | n/a |
| Salario Senior Care | $7,720 | 1 | n/a |
| Alliance Pension Consultants | $7,568 | 1 | n/a |
| Dupli Group | $7,518 | 1 | n/a |
| Dudek & Bock | $7,437 | 1 | n/a |
| Morton Grove Pharmaceuticals | $7,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Royal Box Group LLC | $7,375 | 1 | n/a |
| Batavia Container Inc | $7,365 | 1 | n/a |
| McDermott Center | $7,192 | 1 | 0% |
| Bandai Namco Amusement America | $6,638 | 1 | n/a |
| Gold Eagle | $6,525 | 1 | n/a |
| Plitek LLC | $6,510 | 1 | n/a |
| The Urban Alliance Foundation Inc | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| North Shore Senior Center | $6,424 | 1 | 0% |
| One Million Degrees | $6,135 | 1 | 0% |
| EMC Strategy | $6,061 | 1 | n/a |
| Porte Brown LLC | $6,020 | 1 | n/a |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $5,693 | 1 | 0% |
| Sims Recycling Solutions Inc | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Julian Electric | $5,490 | 1 | n/a |
| NuEra Hillcrest LLC | $5,398 | 1 | n/a |
| Ink Factory | $5,309 | 1 | n/a |
| Cabot Microelectronics Corporation | $5,180 | 1 | n/a |
| Blue Water Builders Inc | $5,125 | 1 | n/a |
| Atlas Wire LLC | $5,110 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce supplied at peak.
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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 18.
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.
Illinois Manufacturers' AssociationIL23.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 1 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Illinois Manufacturers' Association · Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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.
About Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce
- How much does Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce give?
- Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce reported 50 itemized grants totaling $1,131,996, out of $1,208,342 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 50 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (68%), Health (12%), Youth Development (6%).
- Who are Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Ford Motor Company ($612k), Novolex ($414k), The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired ($368k).
- Does Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Illinois Manufacturers' Association, Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc.
- Where is Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce based?
- Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce is based in IL.
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