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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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $166k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $493k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $473k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ford Motor Company | $77,361 |
| Vital Proteins | $70,000 |
| USIC Locating Services | $70,000 |
| Ingredion Inc | $69,032 |
| John B Sanfilippo & Son Inc | $63,713 |
| Manhattan Mechanical Services | $62,763 |
| Chicago Lighthouse | $59,640 |
| CARA Collective | $49,675 |
| Youth Guidance | $49,603 |
| Kids Above All | $41,981 |
| Sysmex America Inc | $36,705 |
| Novolex | $34,557 |
| Brightpoint | $31,966 |
| Vapor Bus International | $26,323 |
| GSF USA Inc | $21,183 |
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 (FY22–25, $416k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
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 +7% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
63 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $271k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED4× · 2022–2025 · $368k · revenue +20%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY3× · 2023–2025 · $122k · revenue +23%- KAKids Above All Illinois4× · 2022–2025 · $103k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- AASIone grant, 2022 · $81k · revenue +8%
- FGFIS Globalone grant, 2020 · $64k
- WMWEST MONROE PARTNERS LLCone grant, 2023 · $49k
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.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
To give members the ability to control their financial destiny by providing members with the means to satisfy their needs for financial services in a comfortable family-like environment. in doing so, the credit union strives to maintain…
The mission of mchc chicago hospital council is to foster, promote, support, develop and encourage charitable, educational, scholastic and scientific purposes; promote cooperative effort and action between hospitals and other health care…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
It is the mission of sinnissippi centers, inc. to provide quality, coordinated and responsive behavioral healthcare services to individuals, families and the communities we serve.
To advocate for and support hospitals and health systems as they serve patients and communities in illinois.
Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
We strive to make aging easier through the development of a network of services for older persons designed to optimize the quality of their lives.
To strengthen the economic social environmental and governmental conditions for manufacturing and allied enterprises in the state of illinois, resulting in an englarged business base and increased employment.
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 133 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
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.
- Who funds THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds Youth Guidance ↗
- Who funds Kids Above All Illinois ↗
- Who funds ASI ↗
- Who funds The Cara Program ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Howard Brown Health Center ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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