How much does Impact Grants Chicago give?

Impact Grants Chicago reported 7 grants totaling $490,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Impact Grants Chicago fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (21%), Human Services (19%), Youth Development (12%).

Who are Impact Grants Chicago's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Connections for Abused Women and Their Children ($200k), Lawndale Christian Legal Center ($130k), St Leonard's Ministries ($130k).

Does Impact Grants Chicago fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Impact Grants Chicago?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, Polk Bros Foundation Inc.

Where is Impact Grants Chicago based?

Impact Grants Chicago is based in IL.

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Illinois · Public charity

Impact Grants Chicago

Impact Grants Chicago connects, engages and inspires women to improve the community of Chicago by collectively funding $100,000 grants to Chicago nonprofits that are dedicated to addressing the challenges facing the city.

$490k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 7
Grants FY2025: 7
Organizations funded FY2024: 57%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $100,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $100,000
Organizations funded a year: 7 to 14; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $257k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 57% of the organizations Impact Grants Chicago funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalReligionOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	7	$490k	86%
FY2024	7	$475k	57%
FY2023	8	$460k	88%
FY2022	8	$480k	88%
FY2021	12	$630k	67%
FY2020	14	$795k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Housing & Shelter$710kHuman Services$635kYouth Development$415kCrime & Legal$357kEducation$282kFood & Nutrition$240kHealth$210kArts & Culture$200kOther$0

Top grantees

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

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Connections for Abused Women and Their Children	$200,000	2	4%
Lawndale Christian Legal Center	$130,000	2	1%
St Leonard's Ministries	$130,000	2	2%
New Moms Inc	$120,000	2	1%
Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance	$100,001	2	3%
Margarets Village	$100,000	1	4%
Chicago Furniture Bank	$100,000	1	1%
Housing Opportunities and Maintenance for the Elderly Inc	$100,000	1	3%
Deborah's Place	$100,000	1	2%
I Grow Chicago NFP	$100,000	1	4%

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All grantees of Impact Grants Chicago by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Connections for Abused Women and Their Children	$200,000	2	4%
Lawndale Christian Legal Center	$130,000	2	1%
St Leonard's Ministries	$130,000	2	2%
New Moms Inc	$120,000	2	1%
Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance	$100,001	2	3%
Margarets Village	$100,000	1	4%
Chicago Furniture Bank	$100,000	1	1%
Housing Opportunities and Maintenance for the Elderly Inc	$100,000	1	3%
Deborah's Place	$100,000	1	2%
I Grow Chicago NFP	$100,000	1	4%
Nourishing Hope	$100,000	1	1%
Common Pantry	$100,000	1	5%
Resilience	$100,000	1	3%
The People's Music School	$100,000	1	2%
Chicago Youth Programs Inc	$100,000	1	5%
The Bloc	$100,000	1	6%
Ignite	$100,000	1	2%
Open Books Ltd	$100,000	1	3%
Chicago Survivors Inc	$100,000	1	6%
El Hogar del Nino	$100,000	1	2%
Revolution Workshop	$100,000	1	2%
Friends of the Children - Chicago	$100,000	1	4%
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Cook County	$100,000	1	6%
Restoring the Path	$100,000	1	7%
Kaleidoscope Inc	$79,500	2	1%
Facing Forward to End Homelessness	$74,850	2	1%
Center for Conflict Resolution	$72,223	2	3%
Growing Home Inc	$65,900	1	2%
Vocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders	$50,000	2	1%
Old Irving Park Community Clinic	$40,000	2	2%
One Million Degrees	$32,350	1	1%
Law Center for Better Housing	$30,000	1	1%
Renaissance Social Services Inc	$30,000	1	1%
Esperanza Community Services	$30,000	1	0%
North Side Housing and Supportive Services	$30,000	1	1%
Greater Chicago Legal Clinic	$25,000	1	1%
Franciscan Outreach	$25,000	1	0%
Care for Real	$25,000	1	0%
The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence	$20,000	1	0%
Onward Neighborhood House	$20,000	1	0%
NAMI Chicago	$20,000	1	0%
Beloved Community Family Wellness Center	$20,000	1	0%
Meals on Wheels Chicago	$15,000	1	1%
Working Credit NFP	$15,000	1	1%
Poder	$15,000	1	1%
The Lyte Collective	$15,000	1	2%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Impact Grants Chicago supplied at peak.

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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 46.

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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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL53.4× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Maurice & Henry Freund Charitable Foundation · WP & HB White Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Cuore e Mani Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · All Chicago Making Homelessness History

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 Impact Grants Chicago

How much does Impact Grants Chicago give?: Impact Grants Chicago reported 7 grants totaling $490,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Impact Grants Chicago fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (21%), Human Services (19%), Youth Development (12%).
Who are Impact Grants Chicago's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Connections for Abused Women and Their Children ($200k), Lawndale Christian Legal Center ($130k), St Leonard's Ministries ($130k).
Does Impact Grants Chicago fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Impact Grants Chicago?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, Polk Bros Foundation Inc.
Where is Impact Grants Chicago based?: Impact Grants Chicago is based in IL.