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Field Foundation of Illinois

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$11M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
299
Grants FY2025
223
Organizations funded FY2024
55%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,156,480
Organizations funded a year
155 to 223
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$49M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 55% of the organizations Field Foundation of Illinois funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.0M 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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 arriving256$11M44%
FY2024223$9.8M55%
FY2023156$4.4M53%
FY2022155$4.1M50%
FY2021162$3.8M62%
FY2020156$4.0Mn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$14MCommunity Improvement$4.0MCivil Rights$3.5MPhilanthropy$3.4MHuman Services$3.3MEducation$1.6MYouth Development$1.6MCrime & Legal$1.3MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
YWCA Northwestern Illinois$2,357,008219%
United Way of Champaign County$1,046,440211%
United Way of Central Illinois Inc$710,820218%
Southern Illinois Community Foundation$421,509120%
Borderless Magazine NFP$360,000520%
True Star Foundation Inc$358,00057%
Public Narrative$310,000522%
Alt Space Chicago$297,500475%
Chicago Community Foundation$295,0004n/a
Chicago United for Equity$265,00069%
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All grantees of Field Foundation of Illinois by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
YWCA Northwestern Illinois$2,357,008219%
United Way of Champaign County$1,046,440211%
United Way of Central Illinois Inc$710,820218%
Southern Illinois Community Foundation$421,509120%
Borderless Magazine NFP$360,000520%
True Star Foundation Inc$358,00057%
Public Narrative$310,000522%
Alt Space Chicago$297,500475%
Chicago Community Foundation$295,0004n/a
Chicago United for Equity$265,00069%
Chicago Community Bond Fund$250,000510%
Southside Together Organizing For Power$250,000616%
Invisible Institute$215,00044%
The Hana Center$210,00041%
Block Club Chicago Nfp$205,00043%
Definition Theatre Company$201,00057%
South Side Weekly Nfp$200,000211%
Investigative Project on Race & Equity$200,000234%
Sisters in Cinema NFP$197,000428%
South Side Community Art Center$190,00057%
Organized Communities Against Deportations$187,50049%
Chicago Public Media Inc$180,00040%
Chicago Torture Justice Center$180,000513%
Public Media Institute$180,00053%
Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum Inc$175,000314%
American Indian Center$175,00046%
Arab American Action Network$171,00056%
Healing to Action$165,00066%
Reader Institute for Community Journalism Inc$164,50042%
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Chicago$160,00051%
Brighton Park Neighborhood Council$160,00060%
Young Chicago Authors$155,8002n/a
Forefront$150,77051%
Equity and Transformation$150,00042%
Red Clay Dance Company Inc$150,00057%
Muntu Dance Theatre$150,000222%
Enrich Chicago$148,750421%
Little Village Environmental Justice Org$145,00051%
Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center$145,000510%
Mandala South Asian Performing Arts Inc$142,500320%
Latino Policy Forum$140,00041%
Logan Square Neighborhood Association$140,00041%
Collaboraction Theatre Co$140,00047%
Changing Worlds$140,00047%
Elastic Arts Foundation$140,000312%
Reparations Media Nfp$130,000219%
Full Spectrum Features NFP$126,000611%
Kuumba Lynx$125,00032%
Chicago Artists Coalition$125,000214%
Alternative Newsweekly Foundation$125,00012%
Inner-City Muslim Action Network$125,00040%
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights$125,00040%
Kartemquin Educational Films$124,00032%
Chicago Learning Exchange$122,500410%
Independent Film Alliance F/K/A Stage 18$120,000221%
Kindred Civic Arts Forum$120,000314%
Tgi Movement$120,000310%
Gilloury Institute$120,00055%
Honey Pot Performance$119,500530%
Resident Association of Greater Englewood$115,00024%
Chicago City Theatre Company dba Joel Hall Dancers & Center$115,000310%
Chicago Art Department$115,000313%
Free Street Theater$115,000412%
Lugenia Burns Hope Center$115,00056%
American Indian Association of Illinois$115,000446%
Pilsen Alliance$110,000317%
Monroe Foundation$110,000443%
Lawndale Pop-Up Spot$105,000325%
Working Family Solidarity$102,500411%
Uprising Theater$100,0001n/a
Eta Creative Arts Foundation$100,000222%
The Musical Arts Institute$100,00026%
Youth Radio$100,00022%
Girls Like Me Project Inc$99,000339%
Field Museum of Natural History$97,50060%
Mujeres Latinas En Accion$96,50041%
The National Public Housing Museum$95,50051%
Firebird Community Arts$95,30042%
Chicago Children's Museum$95,25060%
International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago$95,000316%
Urban Growers Collective Inc$95,00031%
Open Center for the Arts$95,000211%
Real Men Charities$92,500515%
Mezcla Media Collective LTD$92,000316%
Grassroots Collaborative$90,00035%
Kenwood Oakland Community Organization$90,00022%
Africa International House USA Inc$90,000330%
City Bureau Nfp$90,00031%
Streetwise$86,5152n/a
People Matter$85,000223%
National Musuem of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture$85,00034%
Chicago Votes$85,00033%
D-Composed Gives$85,000215%
OTV Open Television Inc$85,00032%
Illinois Arts Alliance$85,000311%
Organizing Neighborhoods For Equality Northside$84,97543%
Jazz Institute of Chicago$80,000225%
Black Alphabet Nfp$80,000213%
Injustice Watch NFP$80,00023%
Communities United$80,00031%
Threewalls$80,000311%
Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Inc$80,00031%
Heaven Gallery$78,000420%
South Chicago Dance Theatre$77,00044%
Paso- West Suburban Action Project$76,5002n/a
Open the Circle$75,000291%
IL Muslim Civic Coalition$75,00037%
Window to the World Communications Inc$75,00030%
Chicago Dancemakers Forum$75,000212%
Puerto Rican Arts Alliance$75,00031%
Global Philanthropy Partnership$75,00011%
Crossroads Fund Inc$73,00040%
Brave Space Alliance$72,95031%
Congo Square Theatre Company$72,500411%
18th Street Casa de Cultura Nfp$72,0001n/a
West Point Fellowship Inc Dba West Point School of Music$70,00033%
Southwest Organizing Project$70,00030%
National Museum of Mexican Art Fka Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum$70,00021%
Black Ensemble Theater Corporation$70,00021%
Albany Park Theater Project$70,00032%
Firehouse Community Arts Center of Chicago$67,00041%
Puerto Rican Cultural Center$65,00010%
Chicago Reader L3c$65,0001n/a
Little Black Pearl Workshop$65,00031%
Chicago Video Project$60,000211%
Arise Chicago$60,00021%
Restore Justice Foundation$60,00024%
Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance$60,00027%
Muddy Waters Mojo Museum$60,00023%
Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council$60,00011%
Chicago South Side Film Festival Inc$60,000345%
Strategy for Access Foundation Nfp$57,50047%
3arts Inc$56,00031%
Korean Performing Arts Institute of Chicago$55,00029%
Equity Arts$55,000335%
Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation$55,00023%
Latino Union of Chicago$52,49035%
Leadership Greater Chicago$52,00031%
Metropolitan Family Services$50,00020%
Northwest Side Housing Center$50,00021%
Haitian American Museum of Chicago$50,000210%
Chicago Defender Charities Inc$50,0001n/a
Chicago Access Corporation$50,0001n/a
Teatro Vista Theater With a View Inc$50,00023%
Shriver Center on Poverty Law$50,0001n/a
Praize Productions Inc Nfp$50,00026%
The Artists Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions$50,0001n/a
Sweet Water Foundation Inc$50,00025%
The Simple Good$50,00025%
Equality Illinois$50,000112%
Green Star Movement NFP$50,0001n/a
The Westside Media Project$50,000147%
Growing Community Media NFP$50,00012%
Allied Media Projects Inc$50,00010%
Arts & Business Council of Chicago$50,0001n/a
Youth for A Better Future$50,0001n/a
Blackroots Alliance$50,00021%
Woodstock Institute$50,0001n/a
Chicago Torture Justice Memorials Foundation$50,000219%
Playmakers Laboratory Theatre$50,00029%
Lawyers for the Creative Arts$50,000110%
Center for Native Futures$50,00027%
City Bureau Nfp$50,0001n/a
Community Film Workshop$50,000137%
Organic Oneness$50,00027%
Live the Spirit Residency$50,00029%
Circles and Ciphers$50,0002n/a
Americas Media Initiative Nfp$50,000141%
The Firehouse Dream Inc$50,000212%
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc$48,00010%
Chicago Urban League$45,00030%
YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore$45,00020%
A Long Walk Home Inc$45,00012%
Lighthouse Foundation of Chicagoland$45,00022%
National Museum of Gospel Music$45,000369%
Chicago Media Project$45,00022%
Casa Central Social Services Corporation$44,00020%
Beverly Arts Center of Chicago$44,00021%
The Black Star Project$42,00026%
First Defense Legal Aid$40,00024%
Institute for Nonprofit News$40,00020%
Archi-Treasures Association$40,000212%
Love Unity & Values Institute$40,00022%
Cook County Southland Juvenile Just$40,00012%
Apna Ghar Inc$40,00011%
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois$40,0002n/a
The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence$40,00030%
Chicago Mahogany Foundation$40,000115%
Garfield Park Community Council$40,00022%
Expanded Mental Health Services of Chicago Nfp$40,00021%
BYP100 Education Fund$40,00012%
Dissenters$40,000112%
Grow Greater Englewood Inc$40,00015%
Serendipity Theatre Company D/B/A 2nd Story$39,00017%
Chicago Filmmakers$38,00023%
National Cambodian Museum & Killing Fields Memorial$37,00029%
Free Spirit Media Nfp$35,00013%
The Obsidian Collection Archives$35,000219%
The Arts of Life Inc$35,00022%
The Wasteshed$35,00024%
Chicago Food Policy Action Council$35,00012%
Metropolitan Planning Council$35,00030%
Jane Addams Senior Caucus$35,00025%
Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians$35,000218%
Pegasus Theatre Chicago$35,000121%
Westside Health Authority$35,00010%
Trace Media Inc$35,00011%
Hyde Park Jazz Festival$35,00024%
Nonop Inc$35,000213%
SkyArt NFP$35,00021%
Workers Center For Racial Just NFP$30,00012%
Latin United Community Housing Assn$30,00012%
Free Lunch Academy$30,000136%
Pilsen Housing Cooperative$30,0001n/a
Warehouse Workers Justice Center Inc$30,0001n/a
Rohingya Culture Center$30,00024%
Enlace Chicago$30,00010%
Disability Lead$30,00023%
DeKalb County History Center$30,00016%
Art West Collective$30,0001n/a
Storycorps Inc$30,00010%
Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community Cbcac$30,00021%
Law Center for Better Housing$30,00011%
Amer Camping Assoc Il Section$30,0001n/a
Lutheran Social Services of Illinois$30,00010%
Alliance for Global Justice Corp$30,00010%
Habitat for Humanity Chicago$29,65060%
Ballet Folklorico de Chicago Incorporated$27,50024%
Black Researchers Collective$27,50024%
Northwestern University$27,50030%
826chi Inc$25,00014%
Theatre Y$25,00016%
North Lawndale Historical and Cultural Society Inc$25,0001n/a
Chicago Commons Association$25,00010%
James B Moran Center for Youth Advocacy$25,00011%
Access Community Health Network$25,00010%
Community Television Network Inc$25,000111%
Cypher Foundation$25,0002n/a
West Side Justice Center Inc$25,00010%
Asian Health Coalition$25,00011%
Rome in a Day Productions Chicago$25,0001n/a
Latinos Progresando$25,00011%
Center for Cultural Innovation$25,00010%
Art Encounter$25,00014%
Become Inc$25,00013%
Ampt Advancing Nonprofits$25,00011%
Bloomington Public Schools District 87$25,0001n/a
Museum of Contemporary Art$25,00010%
Erikson Institute$25,00010%
Chicago West Community Music Center$25,00012%
First Presbyterian Church of Chicago$25,000143%
Chicago Parks Foundation$25,00011%
The Experimental Station$25,0001n/a
South Asia Institute$25,00014%
Common Purpose US Inc$25,0001n/a
Independent Sector$25,00010%
Surge Institute$25,00010%
Interaction Initiative Inc$25,000131%
Chicago Freedom School$25,00013%
Chicago Sinfonietta Inc$25,00011%
Snow City Arts Foundation$25,00013%
Teamwork Englewood Inc$25,0001n/a
Instituto Gaspar Yanga$25,0001n/a
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs$25,00012%
Lorde Rustin & Bates Inc$25,0001n/a
AIDS Foundation of Chicago$25,00010%
The Chicago Community Loan Fund$25,00010%
Lawndale Christian Development Corp$25,00011%
Sixty Inches From Center Nfp$25,00013%
The@Kola Nut Collaborative$25,0001n/a
Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana$25,00010%
Chicago Youth Centers$25,00010%
Territory NFP$25,000110%
Greater Chatham Initiative$25,00011%
The Newberry Library$25,00010%
Institute for Growth & Development$25,000114%
Contextos Nfp$24,0001n/a
Rockford Area Habitat for Humanity$23,50011%
Chicago Human Rhythm Project$23,0001n/a
Northlight Theatre Inc$22,50010%
Christianaire$22,5003n/a
Everthrive Illinois$22,10011%
Chicago Rewilding Society$22,0001n/a
Haibayo Cares$22,0001n/a
Union Street Gallery$21,000122%
South Shore Drill Team & Performing Arts Ensemble$20,50032%
6018north Nfp$20,250215%
Depaul University$20,00010%
Dominican University$20,00010%
College Mentoring Experience$20,0001n/a
Teatro Tariakuri$20,00024%
National Consumer Law Center Inc$20,00020%
Igniting Minds Inc$20,000113%
Front Porch Arts Center$20,0001n/a
Oak Park Regional Housing Center Inc$20,0001n/a
Kan-Win$20,00011%
Najwa Dance Corps$20,00026%
Southwest Collective$20,00016%
Fractured Atlas Inc$20,00010%
Axis Lab$20,0001n/a
Socialworks$20,00016%
Youth Crossroads Inc$20,00011%
Emerald South Economic Development Colloborative$20,00012%
Annie B Jones Civic Arts Center$20,00013%
New Life Centers of Chicagoland$20,0001n/a
Alternatives Inc$20,00010%
Natya Dance Theatre$20,00021%
Friends of the Forest Preserves$20,00011%
Muslim Legal Fund of America$20,00011%
Asian Improv Arts Midwest$20,00022%
Project I A M NFP$20,000115%
Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago$20,00010%
New Eclipse Community Alliance$20,0001n/a
Black Lunch Table$20,0001n/a
Pullman Arts$20,000113%
Rincon Family Services$20,00010%
American Blues Theater Nfp$20,00012%
Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center NFP$20,00010%
Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health$20,0001n/a
Ceic Corp$20,000123%
Chicago Cultural Performing Arts and Media Allianc$20,00018%
New America Foundation$20,00010%
Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center$20,00021%
Mud Theatre Project$20,0001n/a
Heritage Museum of Asian Art$20,0001n/a
The People's Lobby Education Institute$20,00012%
Theatre Communications Group Inc$20,00011%
Un Learning Space Nfp$20,000111%
Urban Initiatives Inc$20,00010%
Youth Guidance$20,00010%
Life is Work$20,00012%
Chicago Workers' Collaborative NFP$20,00011%
The Try Center - Todays Relating Youths$19,0001n/a
Railroad Tracks Music Academy$19,0001n/a
Illinois Humanities Council Inc$18,00020%
The Barack Obama Foundation$17,50020%
Good Kids Mad City - Englewood$15,0001n/a
The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired$15,00010%
Gsj Family Life Center$15,00018%
Law and Civics Readng and Writing Institute$15,000119%
Bright Promises Foundation$15,00021%
Housing Action Illinois$15,00010%
Neighborspace$15,0001n/a
Darren B Easterling Center for Restorative Practices$15,00014%
Women for Economic Justice$15,0001n/a
Burst Into Books$15,00016%
Mil Mujeres Inc$15,00011%
Hyde Park Art Center$15,00011%
Advocates for Urban Agriculture Nfp$15,00012%
Chapin Hall Center for Children$15,00010%
Columbia College Chicago$15,00010%
Lift Up Communities$15,0001n/a
Raw Talent Performing Arts$14,284117%
Dions Chicago Dream Inc Nfp$13,35024%
Chicago Metamorphosis Orchestra Project Nfp$12,5001n/a
University of Chicago$12,50010%
Intonation Music Workshop$12,00012%
IntuitCenter for IntuitiveOutsider Art$11,96020%
Chicago Cultural Alliance$10,15212%
Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre$10,00014%
Muslim American Leadership Alliance$10,00013%
Center for Impact Research$10,0001n/a
Lookingglass Theatre Company$10,0001n/a
Sones de Mexico Ensemble$10,00013%
Diasporal Rhythms Nfp$10,0001n/a
National Association of Latino Arts and Culture$10,00010%
Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation$10,00010%
Tallgrass Educational Films Co Joseph Winston$10,000112%
Links Hall Inc$10,00013%
Reform for Illinois$10,00014%
National Performance Network Inc$10,00010%
Third Coast Percussion Nfp$10,00011%
Resilience Partners NFP$10,00010%
Rivendell Theatre Ensemble$10,00013%
Oh Art Foundation$10,00011%
Creative Chicago Reuse Exchange$10,000111%
Star Farm Chicago$10,00012%
Lift Inc$10,00010%
Peer Health Exchange Inc$10,00010%
About Face Theatre Collective Inc$10,00011%
The Miracle Center$10,00011%
Grantmakers in the Arts$10,0001n/a
One Family Illinois$10,0001n/a
Aguijon Theater Company of Chicago$10,0001n/a
Esprit Des Concerts$10,0001n/a
Strides for Peace Inc$10,0001n/a
Lideramos the Latino Leadership Alliance$10,000111%
Que4 Radio$10,0001n/a
Court Theatre Fund$10,0001n/a
The Guild Complex$10,00013%
Corazon Community Services$10,00012%
Safe Families for Children Alliance$9,40010%
Network for Developing Conscious Communities Inc$7,50016%
The Chicago Club Preservation Foundation$7,50010%
Openlands$7,5001n/a
Black Arts & Culture Alliance of Chicago$7,00013%
Cabrini Green Legal Aid$6,50010%
One Earth Collective$6,00012%
A Just Harvest$5,00010%
The Inner Voice Inc$5,00010%
College Unbound$5,00010%
City Incite Inc$5,00011%
Editorial Projects in Education Inc$5,00010%
Chicago State Foundation$5,00011%
Grace Housing Complex$5,00016%
Humanity Relief$5,0001n/a
The Adler Planetarium$5,00010%
Mikva Challenge Grant Foundation$5,00010%
Preservation Foundation of the Lake County Forest Preserves$5,00010%
Yin He Dance$5,00015%
A Better Chicago$5,00010%
YWCA Metropolitan Chicago$5,00010%
The Green Lantern Gallery and Press Nfp$5,0001n/a
Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods$5,00010%
The Art Institute of Chicago$5,00010%
Chicago Education Advocacy Cooperative$4,500171%
Fuller Theological Seminary$4,35030%
Chicago United$3,75010%
ChiArts Foundation$2,5001n/a
Teenas Legacy$2,5001n/a
Friends of Bell School$2,00011%
Chicago Crime Commission$2,00011%
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs$1,50010%
Centro Romero$1,50010%
Prism Foundation$1,50012%
Foundations College Preparatory School$1,5001n/a
Gary Comer Youth Center Inc$1,50010%
Hope for Haiti Inc$1,50010%
Mother and Child Alliance$1,50010%
The Ace Project Inc$1,50010%
State University of Iowa Foundation$1,30010%
McCormick Theological Seminary 22-22148$1,2501n/a
Chicago History Museum$1,2502n/a
Greater Chicago Food Depository$1,20020%
Chicago Waldorf School$1,11020%
Pathway to Adventure Council Inc Boy Scouts of America$1,0951n/a
Nicole Ellis Foundation Inc$1,00011%
Chicago Zoological Society$90010%
Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc$75010%
The Poor Household of God$75010%
Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)$30010%
Ronald McDonald House Global$30010%
Marklund Childrens Home$30010%
Williams Syndrome Association Inc$30010%
Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois Inc$30010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 206 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Field Foundation of Illinois supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 20 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYWCA Northwestern Illinois: $2,357,008 over 2y, 19% of budgetUnited Way of Champaign County: $1,046,440 over 2y, 11% of budgetUnited Way of Central Illinois Inc: $710,820 over 2y, 18% of budgetSouthern Illinois Community Foundation: $421,509 over 1y, 20% of budgetBorderless Magazine NFP: $360,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetTrue Star Foundation Inc: $358,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetPublic Narrative: $310,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetAlt Space Chicago: $297,500 over 4y, 75% of budgetChicago United for Equity: $265,000 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetChicago Community Bond Fund: $250,000 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetSouthside Together Organizing For Power: $250,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetInvisible Institute: $215,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetThe Hana Center: $210,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetBlock Club Chicago Nfp: $205,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetDefinition Theatre Company: $201,000 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetSouth Side Weekly Nfp: $200,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetInvestigative Project on Race & Equity: $200,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetSisters in Cinema NFP: $197,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetSouth Side Community Art Center: $190,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetOrganized Communities Against Deportations: $187,500 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetChicago Public Media Inc: $180,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Torture Justice Center: $180,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetPublic Media Institute: $180,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetGichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum Inc: $175,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetAmerican Indian Center: $175,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetArab American Action Network: $171,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetHealing to Action: $165,000 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetReader Institute for Community Journalism Inc: $164,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetAsian Americans Advancing Justice - Chicago: $160,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetBrighton Park Neighborhood Council: $160,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetForefront: $150,770 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetEquity and Transformation: $150,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetRed Clay Dance Company Inc: $150,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetMuntu Dance Theatre: $150,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetEnrich Chicago: $148,750 over 4y, 21% of budgetLittle Village Environmental Justice Org: $145,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSegundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center: $145,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetMandala South Asian Performing Arts Inc: $142,500 over 3y, 20% of budgetLatino Policy Forum: $140,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetLogan Square Neighborhood Association: $140,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCollaboraction Theatre Co: $140,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetChanging Worlds: $140,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetElastic Arts Foundation: $140,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetReparations Media Nfp: $130,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetFull Spectrum Features NFP: $126,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetKuumba Lynx: $125,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetChicago Artists Coalition: $125,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetAlternative Newsweekly Foundation: $125,000 over 1y, 2.3% 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 200.

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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.

Polk Bros Foundation IncIL197.5× affinity130 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Crossroads Fund Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Walder Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Woods Fund of Chicago · Chicago Foundation for Women · Illinois Humanities Council Inc

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 Field Foundation of Illinois

How much does Field Foundation of Illinois give?
Field Foundation of Illinois reported 299 grants totaling $10,789,523 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 155 and 223 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Field Foundation of Illinois fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (39%), Community Improvement (11%), Civil Rights (10%).
Who are Field Foundation of Illinois's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: YWCA Northwestern Illinois ($2.4M), United Way of Champaign County ($1.0M), United Way of Central Illinois Inc ($711k).
Does Field Foundation of Illinois fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Field Foundation of Illinois accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Field Foundation of Illinois?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Polk Bros Foundation Inc, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, The Joyce Foundation.
Where is Field Foundation of Illinois based?
Field Foundation of Illinois 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 658 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-PF 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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