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City Bureau NFP

Media education organization focused on providing civic information to neighborhoods on the south and west sides of chicago, facilitating educational opportunities around journalism and media, and developing and testing new models of civic journalism.

$193k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $172,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $192,985 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $20,485 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $135k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
scaleLIT$15,000
Forest Park Public Library$15,000
THE HANA CENTER$15,000
Latinx Digital Leaders Now$15,000
Harper College Educational Fo$15,000
Corazon Community Services$15,000
Quilt Corporation NFP INC$15,000
Niles Maine District Library$15,000
Markham Public Library$15,000
Dorothy A Swope Foundation$7,500
Record Community News Group$7,500
North Riverside Pub Library$7,500
River Oaks Community Educ$7,500
Lucky Jefferson$7,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Corazon Community Services: $15k → 14%THE HANA CENTER: $15k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Reader Institute for Community Journalism Inc

Reader institute for community journalism, inc. (ricji) is organized and operated to educate, advance, and inform public discourse through local, independent journalism in the greater chicago metropolitan area. ricji operates and publishes…

Arts & Culture
2
Borderless Magazine Nfp

Borderless magazine nfp is a chicago-based nonprofit news outlet that is reimagining local immigration journalism for a more just and equitable future. we provide free, local and state news coverage to english and spanish speakers.

Arts & Culture
3
Chicago Collegiate Inc

To equip all students in grades six through twelve with the academic skills, intellectual habits and character traits to succeed in the college of their choice, strenghten their communities and change the world.

Education
4
Block Club Chicago Nfp

Block club chicago is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to delivering reliable, nonpartisan and essential coverage of chicago's diverse neighborhoods.

Education
5
The Conversationalist
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6
Invisible Institute

Enhancing the capacity of citizens to hold public institutions accountable through the practice of investigative journalism. The Organization adheres to the central principle that citizens have co-responsibility with the government for…

Civil Rights
7
Chicago Media Project

To impact society through the powerful tools of media and film. we are a resource for uniting individuals interested in media and developing a core group of informed citizens.

Public Benefit
8
Injustice Watch Nfp

Injustice Watch is a Chicago-based nonprofit journalism organization that examines issues of equity and justice in the court system.

Civil Rights
9
Independent Berkeley Student Publishing Company Inc

The Independent Berkeley Student Publishing Co., Inc. (The Daily Californian) is an independent newspaper that trains UC Berkeley students for careers in journalism and business. The paper and its digital products are the primary source…

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10
City Bureau Nfp

Media education organization focused on providing civic information to neighborhoods on the south and west sides of chicago, facilitating educational opportunities around journalism and media, and developing and testing new models of civic…

Arts & Culture
11
Chicago Urban League

The Chicago Urban League works to foster economic empowerment, cultivate leadership, and dismantle systemic barriers in the effort to drive lasting equity and prosperity for Black Chicago.

Employment
12
Illinois Press Foundation Inc

To promote and protect free expression through educational activities that foster the practice and respect of first amendment principles and values, to enhance the quality of services provided by newspapers to their communities, and to…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is River Oaks Community Education and Development Corporation; the most unlike its peers is The Record Community News Group. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Niles Maine District Library: $15,000 · OtherNiles Maine District LibraryMarkham Public Library: $15,000 · OtherMarkham Public LibraryForest Park Public Library: $15,000 · OtherForest Park Public LibraryNorth Riverside Pub Library: $7,500 · OtherNorth Riverside Pub LibraryDorothy A Swope Foundation: $7,500 · OtherDorothy A Swope FoundationSCALELIT FKA CHICAGO CITYWIDE LITERACY COALITION: $15,000 · EducationSCALELIT FKA CHICAGO CITYWIDE LITERA…WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationWILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCAT…DIGITAL LEADERS NOW: $15,000 · EducationDIGITAL LEADERS NOWRIVER OAKS COMMUNITY EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $7,500 · EducationRIVER OAKS COMMUNITY EDUCATION AND D…INVESTIGATIVE NEWSOURCE: $5,000 · EducationINVESTIGATIVE NEWSOURCECORAZON COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15,000 · Human ServicesCORAZON COMMUNITY S…THE HANA CENTER: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE HANA CENTERTHE QUILT CORPORATION NFP INC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementTHE QUILT…LUCKY JEFFERSON: $7,500 · Arts & CultureLUCKY JEF…The Record Community News Group: $7,500 · Arts & CultureThe Recor…
Other$60,000Education$57,500Human Services$30,000Community Improvement$15,000Arts & Culture$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSCALELIT FKA CHICAGO CITYWIDE LITERACY COALITION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCORAZON COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HANA CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLUCKY JEFFERSON: $7,500 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetRIVER OAKS COMMUNITY EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $7,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetINVESTIGATIVE NEWSOURCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization City Bureau NFP funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from City Bureau NFP. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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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