Illinois · Public charity
Equality Illinois Institute
EQUALITY ILLINOIS INSTITUTE builds a better illinois by advancing equal treatment and social justice through education, advocacy and protection of the rights of the lgbt community.
- $92k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 2
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $80k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Equality Illinois Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 2 | $80k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $58k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $86k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $203k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $66k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $80k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $105k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equality Illinois | $424,000 | 8 | 54% |
| EQTX Equality Texas Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Phoenix Community Center | $48,050 | 1 | 4% |
| Acorn Equality Fund | $35,000 | 1 | 65% |
| Rainbow Cafe Lgbtq Center | $27,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Prairie Pride Coalition Inc | $25,200 | 3 | n/a |
| Chicago Abortion Fund | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Peoria Proud | $8,720 | 2 | n/a |
| Carbondale Unitarian Fellowship | $8,370 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equality Illinois | $424,000 | 8 | 54% |
| EQTX Equality Texas Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Phoenix Community Center | $48,050 | 1 | 4% |
| Acorn Equality Fund | $35,000 | 1 | 65% |
| Rainbow Cafe Lgbtq Center | $27,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Prairie Pride Coalition Inc | $25,200 | 3 | n/a |
| Chicago Abortion Fund | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Peoria Proud | $8,720 | 2 | n/a |
| Carbondale Unitarian Fellowship | $8,370 | 2 | n/a |
| The Phoenix Center Inc | $7,040 | 2 | 0% |
| Writers Planners Trainers | $6,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Affinity Community Services | $6,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Association of Latinos Latinas Latinxs Motivating Action Corp | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hope Is Foundation | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| African American Lesbian Professionals | $1,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago | $1,150 | 1 | 0% |
| Zoliy Productions | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sithub | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Chicago Black Gay Mens Caucus | $250 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Equality Illinois Institute supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Pritzker Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Equality Illinois Institute
- How much does Equality Illinois Institute give?
- Equality Illinois Institute reported 2 itemized grants totaling $80,000, out of $92,167 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Equality Illinois Institute fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (78%), Health (11%), Human Services (4%).
- Who are Equality Illinois Institute's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Equality Illinois ($424k), EQTX Equality Texas Foundation ($50k), The Phoenix Community Center ($48k).
- Does Equality Illinois Institute fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Equality Illinois Institute?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pritzker Family Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Equality Illinois Institute based?
- Equality Illinois Institute is based in IL.
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