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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
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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.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
HealthCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther
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
FY2024still arriving2$80k50%
FY20231$58k0%
FY20223$86k67%
FY20219$203k67%
FY20201$66k0%
FY20198$80k25%
FY20189$105kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Civil Rights$530kHealth$77kHuman Services$29kArts & Culture$26kReligion$8kEducation$7k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Equality Illinois$424,000854%
EQTX Equality Texas Foundation$50,00013%
The Phoenix Community Center$48,05014%
Acorn Equality Fund$35,000165%
Rainbow Cafe Lgbtq Center$27,0001n/a
Prairie Pride Coalition Inc$25,2003n/a
Chicago Abortion Fund$10,00010%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$10,00010%
Peoria Proud$8,7202n/a
Carbondale Unitarian Fellowship$8,3702n/a
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All grantees of Equality Illinois Institute by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Equality Illinois$424,000854%
EQTX Equality Texas Foundation$50,00013%
The Phoenix Community Center$48,05014%
Acorn Equality Fund$35,000165%
Rainbow Cafe Lgbtq Center$27,0001n/a
Prairie Pride Coalition Inc$25,2003n/a
Chicago Abortion Fund$10,00010%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$10,00010%
Peoria Proud$8,7202n/a
Carbondale Unitarian Fellowship$8,3702n/a
The Phoenix Center Inc$7,04020%
Writers Planners Trainers$6,50021%
Affinity Community Services$6,0002n/a
Association of Latinos Latinas Latinxs Motivating Action Corp$5,0001n/a
Hope Is Foundation$1,5001n/a
African American Lesbian Professionals$1,2501n/a
Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago$1,15010%
Zoliy Productions$1,0001n/a
Sithub$1,00011%
Chicago Black Gay Mens Caucus$2501n/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.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEquality Illinois: $424,000 over 8y, 54% of budgetEQTX Equality Texas Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetThe Phoenix Community Center: $48,050 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetAcorn Equality Fund: $35,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetChicago Abortion Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Phoenix Center Inc: $7,040 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWriters Planners Trainers: $6,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPublic Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago: $1,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSithub: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 10.

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.

Pritzker Family FoundationIL13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pritzker Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Amazonsmile 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 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.

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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $12k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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