· Private foundation
Joliet Region Chamber of Commerce Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOLIET JUNIOR COLLEGE | $11,000 |
| JOLIET JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCIS | $4,000 |
| LEWIS UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| AURORA UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMP | $2,000 |
| ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO | $1,000 |
| LEWIS UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| DEPAUL UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| MCKENDREE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 18% of Joliet Region Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 75% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 55%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JJJOLIET JUNIOR COLLEGE2× · 2024–2025 · $16k
UNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCIS2× · 2024–2025 · $16k · revenue -2%- LULewis University2× · 2024–2025 · $12k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- CCColumbia College Chicagoone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +7%
- NCNorth Central Collegeone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue -1%
- KCKNOX COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +6%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
How this is measured
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCIS ↗
- Who funds Lewis University ↗
- Who funds JOLIET JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Columbia College Chicago ↗
- Who funds AURORA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds North Central College ↗
- Who funds KNOX COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds INDIANA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTANA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds McKendree University ↗
- Who funds CARTHAGE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EMERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds QUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of New Haven ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joliet Region Chamber of Commerce Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joliet Region Chamber of Commerce Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of New Haven: 1% of income from government
- Emerson College: 0% of income from government
- Ave Maria University Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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