Illinois · Private foundation
Cme Group Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $6.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 148
- Grants FY2024
- 127
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 92 to 127
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 16
- Total assets, FY2024
- $64M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Cme Group Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 | 125 | $6.6M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 127 | $6.0M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 120 | $6.0M | 23% |
| FY2021 | 121 | $6.1M | 39% |
| FY2020 | 98 | $6.0M | 37% |
| FY2019 | 92 | $5.5M | 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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarship America Inc | $3,705,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Children First Fund the Chicago Public Schools Foundation | $2,291,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Chicago Public Education Fund | $1,300,000 | 6 | 9% |
| University of Chicago | $1,206,000 | 6 | 0% |
| City Colleges of Chicago Foundation | $800,000 | 4 | 4% |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | $775,000 | 5 | n/a |
| LEAP Innovations | $750,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Catholic Bishop of Chicago | $700,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The Barack Obama Foundation | $600,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The George W Bush Foundation | $600,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 221 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cme Group Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 · Circle of Service Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Finnegan Family Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Fulk Family Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Vivo Foundation
How this is measured
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About Cme Group Foundation
- How much does Cme Group Foundation give?
- Cme Group Foundation reported 148 grants totaling $6,739,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 92 and 127 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Cme Group Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (50%), Philanthropy (24%), Youth Development (7%).
- Who are Cme Group Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Scholarship America Inc ($3.7M), Children First Fund the Chicago Public Schools Foundation ($2.3M), Chicago Public Education Fund ($1.3M).
- Does Cme Group Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cme Group Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cme Group Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Robert R McCormick Foundation, Circle of Service Foundation, Arie and Ida Crown Memorial.
- Where is Cme Group Foundation based?
- Cme Group Foundation is based in IL.
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