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Crossroads Fund Inc

The mission of crossroads fund, inc. Is to support community organizations working on issues of racial, social, and economic justice in the chicago area.

$4.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
179
Itemized grants FY2025
185
Organizations funded FY2024
51%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$3.9M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
65 to 185
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$18M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 51% of the organizations Crossroads Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalEducationOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving176$3.9M28%
FY2024185$5.1M51%
FY2023170$5.9M29%
FY2022162$4.5M40%
FY2021127$3.2M100%
FY201765$607kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$3.9MArts & Culture$2.7MCommunity Improvement$2.5MCrime & Legal$2.4MYouth Development$1.4MHuman Services$1.4MHealth$1.2MEmployment$1.1MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
CA
DE
AZ
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
March 13 Fund$845,785440%
Other less than 5000$537,4562n/a
Southside Together Organizing For Power$471,000518%
Build Inc$352,50051%
Organized Communities Against Deportations$351,000415%
Alianza Leadership Institute$345,000519%
People Matter$334,000546%
Chicago Freedom School$328,50059%
United Church of Rogers Park$324,5004n/a
Lugenia Burns Hope Center$318,000410%
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All grantees of Crossroads Fund Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
March 13 Fund$845,785440%
Other less than 5000$537,4562n/a
Southside Together Organizing For Power$471,000518%
Build Inc$352,50051%
Organized Communities Against Deportations$351,000415%
Alianza Leadership Institute$345,000519%
People Matter$334,000546%
Chicago Freedom School$328,50059%
United Church of Rogers Park$324,5004n/a
Lugenia Burns Hope Center$318,000410%
Lucy Parsons Labs$275,000518%
Working Family Solidarity$273,000527%
Pilsen Alliance$273,0004n/a
Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation$272,00048%
Tgi Movement$272,000526%
Blackroots Alliance$270,50055%
Sirat Chicago$252,682428%
Illinios Workers in Action$245,000565%
Borderless Magazine NFP$239,10959%
Soapbox Productions and Organizing$230,937547%
Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago$228,50041%
Healing to Action$226,00048%
United Working Families$225,00049%
People for Community Recovery$223,00049%
Raise Your Hand for Illinois Public Education$210,000421%
Workers Center For Racial Just NFP$200,00044%
Live Free Chicago$184,00059%
Lighthouse Foundation$177,0004n/a
Holistic Birth Collective$165,000310%
Arab American Action Network$165,00054%
African-American Community Trust NFP$160,000415%
First Defense Legal Aid$159,00054%
Alliance for Global Justice Corp$155,00031%
The People's Lobby Education Institute$153,00046%
Health Policy Institute of Ch$150,0003n/a
Men & Women in Prison Ministries$150,00038%
Fathers Families Healthy Communities$145,000434%
Get to Work Illinois Inc$144,0005n/a
Womens All Points Bulletin-Wapb Inc$142,0005n/a
Coalition for Spiritual & Public Ldrshp$140,00039%
The Tenant Education Network$138,000513%
Latino Union of Chicago$133,000313%
Ceic Corp$132,000421%
The Goldin Institute$130,00045%
The Watershed Center Inc$127,00046%
Justice Cream Collective$126,000328%
Humanity Institute$125,0003n/a
Co-Op Ed Center Nfp$120,000424%
Rogers Park Community Action Network$118,000519%
Law Center for Better Housing$112,00022%
Woodlawn Restorative Justice Hub Inc$110,0002n/a
Jane Addams Senior Caucus$110,000411%
El Griot & Areito Project$110,0004n/a
Allied Media Projects Inc$109,84830%
Affinity Community Services$108,000410%
BYP100 Education Fund$107,00032%
Citizen Advocacy Center$106,000522%
Nehemiah Group dba Chicago Eco House$105,00045%
Suburban Unity Alliance$105,0003n/a
Law and Civics Readng and Writing Institute$100,000257%
Ujimaa Medics$99,0003n/a
Haitian Congress to Fortify Haiti$98,000224%
Black Girls Break Bread Inc$97,0004n/a
Midwest Books to Prisoners$92,0002n/a
8th Day Center for Justice$91,0004n/a
Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute$89,00041%
Chicago Torture Justice Memorials Foundation$87,000251%
The Emcays Philanthropies 501$87,0002n/a
A Long Walk Home Inc$85,00052%
Latin Center$82,00033%
The Free Root Operation Inc$81,00039%
Mezcla Media Collective LTD$81,000513%
Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health Inc$80,00037%
United States Catholic Conference$80,0003n/a
The Civiclab Inc$80,000339%
Building for Liberation Projects$80,0001n/a
Resilience Partners NFP$79,00031%
Chicago Torture Justice Center$78,500210%
The Hana Center$78,50051%
Women for Economic Justice$77,0005n/a
Apna Ghar Inc$76,00021%
Circles and Ciphers$75,000119%
Chicago Community Foundation$72,5005n/a
Project Prosper$72,0002n/a
Warehouse Project & Gallery$70,000533%
Chicago United for Equity$70,00024%
Chicago Reader L3c$67,6373n/a
Public Media Institute$67,00026%
About Face Theatre Collective Inc$67,00049%
Center on Halsted$66,00021%
Good Kids Mad City - Englewood$65,000312%
South Side Help Center Inc$65,00022%
Interaction Initiative Inc$64,000266%
Prison and Neighborhood Arts-Education Project$62,0001n/a
Christianaire$62,0003n/a
Equity and Transformation$60,00022%
Alternatives Inc$60,00011%
Evanston Present and Future$59,0004n/a
St Benedict Parish & Schools$57,0004n/a
Free Street Theater$57,00046%
Metropolitan Tenants Organization$55,00035%
Eastlake Tenants Union$55,000325%
Chicago Coalition to Save Our Mental Health Centers$55,00043%
SACRED South Asian American$55,0001n/a
Middle East Cultural and Charitable Society Inc$53,00042%
Immigrant Solidarity Dupage$52,00054%
Sylvia Woods Josephine Wyatt and Clarice Durham$51,000323%
African American Leadership and Policy Institute$50,000167%
Action Now Institute$50,000113%
One Fair Wage Inc$50,00020%
The Puddle Project NFP$50,000233%
Black Researchers Collective$50,000110%
Westside Rising$49,000212%
Center for Immigrant Resources and Community Arts$48,000419%
Sister Survivor Network$48,0004n/a
Christian Peacemaker Teams Inc$47,9345n/a
American Friends Service Committee$47,0003n/a
Chicago Jobs With Justice$47,0003n/a
Depaul University$47,00030%
Unitarian Universalist Prison Ministry of Illinois$46,500421%
Pushing Envelopes Chicago$45,000326%
Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance$45,00018%
Blocks Together$45,0003n/a
United Taxidrivers Community Council$44,0004n/a
Chicago Art Department$43,00043%
Northern Illinois Justice for Our Neighbors$43,00033%
Grassroots Illinois Action$42,500324%
IL Muslim Civic Coalition$42,00043%
Lorde Rustin & Bates Inc$40,0001n/a
Chgo Alliance Against Racist$40,0001n/a
Northside Action for Justice$40,000148%
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Chicago$40,00040%
Parole Illinois$40,000329%
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness$40,00021%
United Congress of Community$40,0001n/a
The Neighborhood Network Alliance$40,000119%
Transformative Justice Law Project$39,7042n/a
Honey Pot Performance$39,100410%
Black Alphabet Nfp$39,00034%
West Side Justice Center Inc$38,00020%
Organizing Neighborhoods For Equality Northside$38,00041%
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois$38,0003n/a
Youth Outlook$37,00033%
Taking Back Our Lives$37,00035%
Territory NFP$37,00044%
United African Organization$35,00022%
Race Conscious Dialogues$35,000511%
Love & Protect$35,0001n/a
SOUL in Action$35,000229%
Public Narrative$35,00016%
Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation Nfp$35,00011%
Dissenters$35,0001n/a
Chicago Community Bond Fund$35,00022%
Grassroots Collaborative$34,50024%
Women Make Movies Inc$34,00030%
Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment$33,00035%
Investigative Project on Race$32,3151n/a
In the Weeds Inc$32,0001n/a
Experimental Sound Studio$32,00042%
Bronzeville Black Chicagoan Historical Society$32,0002n/a
Opencollective Foundation$31,00030%
Free Write Arts & Literacy Nfp$30,0001n/a
La Villita Housing Cooperativ$30,0001n/a
18th Street Casa de Cultura Nfp$30,00022%
Monroe Foundation$30,00016%
Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health$30,000227%
In Care of Black Women LLC$30,0002n/a
National Lawyers Guild Chicag$30,0002n/a
The Story Theatre$30,000316%
Exxperts Chicago Ltd$30,000149%
Ecosystems of Care$30,00027%
Paso- West Suburban Action Project$30,00014%
Garfield Park Community Council$30,00014%
Chicago Community and Workers Rightsnfp$30,0001n/a
Telpochcalli Community Education Project$30,00027%
Un Learning Space Nfp$30,000117%
The Center for Economic Research and Social Change Inc$29,5001n/a
Rayo Counseling and Community Co-op$29,00021%
Perceptions Theatre$28,0003n/a
Center for International Performance & Exhibition$27,70044%
Youth Network Council Dba Illinois Collaboration on Youth$27,50020%
Teamster Rank and File Education and Legal Defense Foundation$27,50031%
Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community Cbcac$27,00032%
Workers Education Society Nfp$27,000121%
Campfire Repertory Theater$27,0002n/a
Candid$26,32510%
Restore Justice Foundation$26,00041%
Hustle Mommies$26,00032%
Connections for the Homeless Inc$25,00010%
Pride in the Pews Nfp Inc$25,00014%
As One Chicago Inc$25,000127%
Nehemiah Trinity Rising$25,000123%
Restored Hope$25,0001n/a
The Roots Initiative$25,000115%
Kinfolk Colab$25,000131%
The Nickolas Lee Foundation$24,0002n/a
Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church of Chicago$24,0003n/a
Illinois Justice Foundation$24,000351%
Despertar Latino$23,00028%
City Bureau Nfp$22,61330%
Cooperation Racine$22,0002n/a
Salaam Community Wellness Center$20,000216%
Alt Space Chicago$20,00024%
Equiticity$20,0001n/a
Debtless Nfp$20,0002n/a
Walls Turned Sideways NFP$20,00015%
Chicago Law and Education Foundation$19,000224%
Midwest Immigration Bond Fund$18,500210%
Parents 4 Teachers$18,0002n/a
Illinois Coalition to End Permanent Punishments$18,0001n/a
Black Midwifery Collective NFP$18,00022%
Illinois Alliance for Reentry$18,00028%
Yogacare$17,00025%
Illinois Single-Payer Coalition$17,0001n/a
Anysquared Arts Nfp$16,0002n/a
NDoula Community Alliance Incorporated$16,00029%
Center For Racial and Gender E NFP$15,50026%
Instituto Gaspar Yanga$15,000125%
The Tiny News Collective Inc$15,00010%
Here to Stay CLT Inc$15,00013%
Chicago Abortion Fund$15,00010%
Gap Community Center$15,00012%
Life Impacters Foundation$15,00012%
Childrens Earth Foundation$15,0001n/a
Illinois Immigrant Action Inc$15,00012%
Asian American Midwest Progressives$15,000110%
Root2Fruit Youth Foundation$15,0001n/a
Village Project Collective$15,0001n/a
ONE Peoples Campaign$15,000115%
Pigment International Foundation$14,200117%
Ecosource Sustainable Initiatives$14,0002n/a
Chicago Peoples Rights Collaborative$14,0002n/a
Que4 Radio$14,0002n/a
Together for Nature$14,0002n/a
Women & Children First$13,3052n/a
The Hoodoisie$13,0001n/a
One Group Mind LLC$13,0001n/a
Pride Roc$12,5001n/a
US Human Rights Network$12,5001n/a
Yunggen Social Club$12,5001n/a
Rock Enterprises and Deveopment Cor$12,5001n/a
Life is Work$12,00014%
First Nations Film and Video Festival Inc$12,0002n/a
Block Club Chicago Nfp$11,50320%
Compassionate Response$11,0001n/a
Singh Foundation Inc$11,00011%
Sokana Collective Worldwide$11,00012%
Full Spectrum Features NFP$11,00011%
The Jesse Maali House of Mercy Foundation Inc$11,000112%
Splinter Art and Community Fund$10,00011%
Our Schools Action$10,0001n/a
Southwest Suburban Immigrant Project$10,00012%
Sncc Legacy Project$10,00012%
Muslim Wellness Foundation$10,0001n/a
Chicago Community Arts Studio$10,000111%
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky Inc$10,00010%
Getting Grown Collective Incorporated Nfp$10,000116%
Mijente$10,00010%
290s Pantry Inc$10,0001n/a
Planet Chambo$10,0001n/a
Baraa Moussa Foundation$10,0001n/a
Nothing Without a Company$10,0001n/a
Pilsen Defense & Access$10,0001n/a
Impact Family Center$10,0001n/a
Illinois Humanities Council Inc$10,00010%
Equity for All of Us$9,0001n/a
National Alliance and the Empowerment of the Inc$9,0001n/a
Gf Productions$9,0001n/a
Chicago Housing Initiative$9,0001n/a
Mud Theatre Project$9,0001n/a
Women Unite Chicago$9,0001n/a
Rapbrary$9,0001n/a
Marimacha Monarca Press LLC$9,0001n/a
Invisible Institute$8,50010%
Midwest Islamic Center$8,5001n/a
The Hack Foundation D/B/A Hack Club$8,0001n/a
Friends of Roger C Sullivan High School$8,0001n/a
New Community Outreach$8,0001n/a
Little Village Environmental Justice Org$8,0001n/a
Northeastern Illinois University Foundation$8,00010%
Student-Led Ed$8,0001n/a
One Earth Collective$8,00013%
Kuumba Lynx$8,0001n/a
Everymom Nfp$8,00012%
Kenwood Oakland Community Organization$8,00010%
Sex Workers Outreach Project$8,00011%
Kindred Earth Collaboration$8,0001n/a
Sithub$7,50012%
Space01 Trejon$7,0001n/a
Amalna Foundation$7,0001n/a
Roman Susan Art Foundation Nfp$7,00015%
Advocates for Illinois Children$7,0001n/a
Holy Breath Conglomerates Nfp Inc$7,0001n/a
ReKinNectar$7,0001n/a
NEO Philanthropy Inc$7,00010%
Just Transition Nwi Inc$7,00016%
Northwest Side Community Development Cor$7,00011%
Prison Yoga Chicago$7,0001n/a
Sista Afya Community Care Nfp$7,00011%
KOI Institute$7,0001n/a
Liberation Journeys$7,00014%
Arab American Family Services$6,00010%
Critical Learning Collaborati$6,0001n/a
Love Package Project Nfp$6,0001n/a
Nature Center for Meditation - North$6,0001n/a
One Lawndale Arts & Activism Incubator$6,00018%
Local News LLC$5,8811n/a

Plus 143 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Crossroads Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 27 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 195 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMarch 13 Fund: $845,785 over 4y, 40% of budgetSouthside Together Organizing For Power: $471,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetBuild Inc: $352,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetOrganized Communities Against Deportations: $351,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetAlianza Leadership Institute: $345,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetPeople Matter: $334,000 over 5y, 46% of budgetChicago Freedom School: $328,500 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetLugenia Burns Hope Center: $318,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetLucy Parsons Labs: $275,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetWorking Family Solidarity: $273,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetSouthsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation: $272,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetTgi Movement: $272,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetBlackroots Alliance: $270,500 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetSirat Chicago: $252,682 over 4y, 28% of budgetIllinios Workers in Action: $245,000 over 5y, 65% of budgetBorderless Magazine NFP: $239,109 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetSoapbox Productions and Organizing: $230,937 over 5y, 47% of budgetPublic Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago: $228,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHealing to Action: $226,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetUnited Working Families: $225,000 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetPeople for Community Recovery: $223,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetRaise Your Hand for Illinois Public Education: $210,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetWorkers Center For Racial Just NFP: $200,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetLive Free Chicago: $184,000 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetHolistic Birth Collective: $165,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetArab American Action Network: $165,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetAfrican-American Community Trust NFP: $160,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetFirst Defense Legal Aid: $159,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $155,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe People's Lobby Education Institute: $153,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetMen & Women in Prison Ministries: $150,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetFathers Families Healthy Communities: $145,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetCoalition for Spiritual & Public Ldrshp: $140,000 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetThe Tenant Education Network: $138,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetLatino Union of Chicago: $133,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetCeic Corp: $132,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetThe Goldin Institute: $130,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetThe Watershed Center Inc: $127,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetJustice Cream Collective: $126,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetCo-Op Ed Center Nfp: $120,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetRogers Park Community Action Network: $118,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetLaw Center for Better Housing: $112,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetJane Addams Senior Caucus: $110,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetAllied Media Projects Inc: $109,848 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAffinity Community Services: $108,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetBYP100 Education Fund: $107,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCitizen Advocacy Center: $106,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetNehemiah Group dba Chicago Eco House: $105,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budget

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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 195.

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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.

Field Foundation of IllinoisIL136.1× affinity78 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Field Foundation of Illinois · Woods Fund of Chicago · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Chicago Foundation for Women · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Forefront · Conant Family Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Albert Pick Jr Fund · Illinois Humanities Council Inc · Julian Grace Foundation

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.

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About Crossroads Fund Inc

How much does Crossroads Fund Inc give?
Crossroads Fund Inc reported 179 itemized grants totaling $3,909,735, out of $4,018,165 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 65 and 185 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Crossroads Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (17%), Arts & Culture (12%), Community Improvement (11%).
Who are Crossroads Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: March 13 Fund ($846k), Other less than 5000 ($537k), Southside Together Organizing For Power ($471k).
Does Crossroads Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 51% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Crossroads Fund Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Field Foundation of Illinois, Woods Fund of Chicago, Polk Bros Foundation Inc.
Where is Crossroads Fund Inc based?
Crossroads Fund Inc is based in IL.

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 453 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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