Illinois · Public charity
Faith in Place
FAITH IN PLACE's mission is cultivating a powerful multifaith movement working for environmental justice through connection, education, and advocacy. FAITH IN PLACE's vision is spiritual communities leading the way in healing our relationships with each other and the earth to build just, resilient, thriving communities.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $26,175
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.6M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Faith in Place funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 46 | $1.1M | 89% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $307k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $355k | 69% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $339k | 89% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $136k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $115k | 90% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $60k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $60k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faith in Place Action Fund | $470,000 | 8 | 100% |
| Cub Consumer Education and Research Fund | $150,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church | $109,200 | 3 | n/a |
| A Just Harvest | $89,112 | 4 | 1% |
| Sierra Club | $65,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Vernon Park Church of God | $60,666 | 4 | n/a |
| Southeast Environmental Task Force | $60,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $36,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pentecostal Chruch of Holiness | $35,675 | 2 | n/a |
| Chicago Votes | $30,000 | 1 | 2% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faith in Place Action Fund | $470,000 | 8 | 100% |
| Cub Consumer Education and Research Fund | $150,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church | $109,200 | 3 | n/a |
| A Just Harvest | $89,112 | 4 | 1% |
| Sierra Club | $65,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Vernon Park Church of God | $60,666 | 4 | n/a |
| Southeast Environmental Task Force | $60,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $36,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pentecostal Chruch of Holiness | $35,675 | 2 | n/a |
| Chicago Votes | $30,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Groundwork Indy Inc | $29,999 | 1 | n/a |
| Englewood Christian Church | $29,999 | 1 | n/a |
| Landmark Columbus Foundation Inc | $29,998 | 1 | 2% |
| Ginnfarms Corporation | $29,998 | 1 | n/a |
| Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary Inc | $29,996 | 1 | n/a |
| Jacksonville Park Foundation | $29,986 | 1 | 26% |
| Wood St Collective | $29,948 | 1 | n/a |
| Els No Limit Nfp | $29,920 | 1 | n/a |
| Sheathed Inc | $29,722 | 1 | n/a |
| Renew Christian Church Inc | $29,635 | 1 | n/a |
| Heartwood Incorporated | $29,579 | 1 | 21% |
| Mr Dad Fathers Club | $29,559 | 1 | n/a |
| Just Roots Just Roots Chicago | $29,406 | 1 | n/a |
| Pilgrim Progress Community Development Corporation | $29,189 | 1 | n/a |
| Solomon Community Temple United Methodist Church | $28,959 | 1 | n/a |
| Northwest Side Community Development Corporation | $28,848 | 1 | n/a |
| Rainbow Beach Park Advisory Council | $28,094 | 1 | n/a |
| Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc | $26,925 | 1 | n/a |
| St Moses the Black Parish | $25,229 | 1 | n/a |
| People for Community Recovery | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Urban Ecology Center Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fuller Park Community Development Corp | $24,915 | 1 | n/a |
| The Table Episcopal Church | $24,367 | 1 | n/a |
| Casa Esperanza Project | $22,488 | 1 | 5% |
| Metcalfe Park Community Bridges Inc | $22,162 | 1 | 3% |
| Ceres Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Economic Development Council of Shelby County Il | $18,423 | 1 | 22% |
| St Peter's United Church of Christ | $17,143 | 2 | n/a |
| Grace United Church of Christ Sauk Village | $17,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Grace Congregational United Church of Christ | $15,931 | 1 | n/a |
| Evolution Sports Academy | $15,469 | 1 | n/a |
| Illinois Environmental Council Education | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| First United Methodist Church | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| All Souls Unitarian Church | $14,515 | 1 | n/a |
| First Presbyterian Church of Charleston | $14,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Sola Gratia Farm | $14,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Greater St John Bible Church | $12,925 | 1 | 2% |
| United Congregations of Metro East | $12,700 | 1 | n/a |
| Trinity Lutheran Church | $12,540 | 1 | n/a |
| Windsor Park Evangelical Lutheran Church | $12,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Northern Illinois Conference of the United Methodi | $11,176 | 1 | n/a |
| Unitarian Universalist Church | $10,106 | 1 | n/a |
| Hungry World Farm | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| First Fruits Homestead Nfp | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Faith Lutheran Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Silverwood Mennonite Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sinai Temple | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Emmanuel Memorial Episcopal Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yorkville Congregational Ucc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| First Christian Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Paoli Mennonite Fellowship | $9,650 | 1 | n/a |
| All Saints | $9,468 | 1 | n/a |
| Copper Creek Church | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| First Presbyterian Church | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Urbana-Champaign Friends Meeting | $8,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Centenary United Methodist Church | $8,464 | 1 | n/a |
| Northfield Community Church | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Luke's Episcopal Church | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for Interfaith Cooperation Inc | $7,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois | $7,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Most Blessed Trinity | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Immigrant Solidarity Dupage | $7,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Mothers Against Senseless Killings Foundation | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Prince of Peace United Methodist | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chicago Avenue Commuity Network Foundation | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Paul's Lutheran Church | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sikh Religious Society | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Eulalia Church | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Good News Community Church | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lions Mathematics and Science Christian Academy | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Immanuel Lutheran Church | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New Eclipse Community Alliance | $7,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| South Shore United Methodist Church | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| West Suburban Temple | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Eden Restoration Project Nfp | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Iglesia Sanidad y Poder Inc | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Maple Park United Methodist Church | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Agatha Parish | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation Nfp | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Breaking the Cycle Ebu | $6,900 | 1 | n/a |
| Arthur Lockhart Resource Institute | $6,800 | 1 | 3% |
| 4 Osprey | $6,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Beth Shalom | $6,780 | 1 | n/a |
| Gary Food Council Inc | $6,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Arcola United Methodist Church | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Michael Congregation | $5,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Haven of Rest Mb Church | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Harmony Community Church | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jubilee Farms United Church of Christ | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rehoboth Blueberry Farm | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Faith in Place supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 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: Forefront · Builders Vision Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · United States Energy Foundation · Community Foundation of East Central Illinois · The Chicago Community Trust · Movement Strategy Center · The Joyce Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Greater Chicago Food Depository · Indianapolis Center for Congregations Inc
How this is measured
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About Faith in Place
- How much does Faith in Place give?
- Faith in Place reported 47 itemized grants totaling $1,059,151, out of $1,102,051 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Faith in Place fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (61%), Food & Nutrition (30%), Religion (7%).
- Who are Faith in Place's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Faith in Place Action Fund ($470k), Cub Consumer Education and Research Fund ($150k), Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church ($109k).
- Does Faith in Place fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Faith in Place?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Forefront, Builders Vision Foundation, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc.
- Where is Faith in Place based?
- Faith in Place is based in IL.
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