· Public charity
Enlace Chicago
Enlace Chicago convenes, organizes, and builds the capacity of little village stakeholders to confront systemic inequities and barriers to economic and social access.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $195k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $109k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| New Life Center of Chicago | $109,250 |
| Chicago Youth Boxing Club | $30,000 |
| Central States SER | $29,000 |
| Erie Neighborhood House | $28,000 |
| Telpochcalli Community | $27,000 |
| Universidad Popular | $27,000 |
| Beyond the Ball | $27,000 |
| Mt Sinai Hospital | $27,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $810k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +91% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NLNew Life Centers of Chicagoland8× · 2017–2025 · $629k · revenue ×16
- TCTELPOCHCALLI COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROJECT9× · 2017–2025 · $349k · revenue +93%
- LCLatin Center9× · 2017–2025 · $333k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- LPLatinos Progresandoone grant, 2022 · $93k · revenue -27%
- BLBEYOND LEGAL AIDgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $36k · revenue +318%
- SASaint Anthony Hospitalgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +25%
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.
Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
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Enlace Chicago convenes, organizes, and builds the capacity of little village stakeholders to confront systemic inequities and barriers to economic and social access. Enlace Chicago is dedicated to making a positive difference in the lives…
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Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness (CCH) builds community power and advances racial equity through organizing, advocacy, legal assistance, and education to prevent and end homelessness because housing is a human right.
Develop, promote and increase awareness of latino cultures among latino communities through film and video events, education and other art forms
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How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 20 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 New Life Centers of Chicagoland ↗
- Who funds TELPOCHCALLI COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Latin Center ↗
- Who funds ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BEYOND THE BALL NFP ↗
- Who funds Chicago Youth Boxing Club ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL STATES SER JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Latinos Progresando ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING CENTER HOUSE OF CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds BEYOND LEGAL AID ↗
- Who funds Saint Anthony Hospital ↗
- Who funds DESIGNS FOR DIGNITY ↗
- Who funds FOREFRONT ↗
- Who funds THE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Healthy Communities Foundation · Michael Reese Health Trust · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Greater Chicago Food Depository · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Enlace Chicago funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Enlace Chicago. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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