Illinois · Private foundation
First Bank Chicago Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $452k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 144
- Grants FY2024
- 138
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $34,690
- Organizations funded a year
- 123 to 150
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $17k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations First Bank Chicago Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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 | 142 | $435k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 138 | $416k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 150 | $452k | 51% |
| FY2021 | 123 | $433k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bernie's Book Bank | $96,300 | 4 | 0% |
| William Rainey Harper College Educational Foundation | $85,050 | 4 | 1% |
| Honest Game Foundation | $55,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago Inc | $47,500 | 3 | 0% |
| College Bound Opportunities | $47,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Rotary Club of Highland Park- Highwood | $41,600 | 4 | 19% |
| Catholic Charities Inc | $34,750 | 3 | n/a |
| Family Focus Legacy | $32,550 | 4 | 1% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $30,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Ravinia Festival Association | $24,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 208 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 67 recipients with no EIN on record ($566k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget First Bank Chicago Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Circle of Service Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · The Lake County Community Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · Highland Park Community Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Give N Kind · AbbVie Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation
How this is measured
About First Bank Chicago Foundation
- How much does First Bank Chicago Foundation give?
- First Bank Chicago Foundation reported 144 grants totaling $451,856 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 123 and 150 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does First Bank Chicago Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (10%), Housing & Shelter (6%), Health (6%).
- Who are First Bank Chicago Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Bernie's Book Bank ($96k), William Rainey Harper College Educational Foundation ($85k), Honest Game Foundation ($55k).
- Does First Bank Chicago Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does First Bank Chicago Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as First Bank Chicago Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Circle of Service Foundation, John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy, The Lake County Community Foundation.
- Where is First Bank Chicago Foundation based?
- First Bank Chicago Foundation is based in IL.
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