· Public charity
Metropolitan Mayors Caucus
The caucus provides a forum through which the chief elected officials of the region cooperatively develop consensus on common public policy issues and multi-jurisdictional challenges.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $362k
- $250k+5 grants · $33M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF CHICAGO | $30,251,235 |
| VILLAGE OF OAK PARK | $1,062,545 |
| LAKE COUNTY | $923,990 |
| CITY OF ELGIN | $737,237 |
| VILLAGE OF FORD HEIGHTS | $257,545 |
| VILLAGE OF UNIVERSITY PARK | $223,022 |
| CITY OF URBANA | $138,897 |
| OPTICOS DESIGN INC | $25,333 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $25,000 |
| CHICAGO METROPOLITAN AGENCY FOR PLANNING | $20,103 |
| METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL | $15,000 |
| ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| CITY OF ROCKFORD | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| VILLAGE OF ELMWOOD PARK | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- COCITY OF ELGIN2× · 2019–2024 · $747k
- CMChicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning4× · 2019–2022 · $322k
- VOVillage of River Forest2× · 2017–2022 · $182k
Funded once
- WAWest Aurora School District 129one grant, 2017 · $580k
- GTGlenbard Township High School District 87one grant, 2017 · $345k
- EUEMORY UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $324k
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.
Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.
English language individuals and other disdvantaged minorities to achieve economic self sufficiency.
At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…
The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.
Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.
To promote the full and equal participation of immigrants and refugees in the political, civic, cultural, and social life of our diverse society.
The welcome network exists to caringly provide practical resources, spiritual mentoring, and real community to internationally-born residents of northwest indiana and south chicago.
Champion equitable responses and recovery efforts for the Latinx community impacted by COVID-19
To provide low or no cost medical care to low income and uninsured people.
North suburban legal aid clinic's mission is to provide accessible, quality, equitable, free legal services in the areas of domestic violence, housing, and immigration to give low-income, at-risk community members access to justice and the…
Executive Service Corps is the premier nonprofit consultancy that engages highly skilled professionals who use their experience and expertise to provide nonprofits with the consulting services they need to be successful. Our vision is to…
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
How this is measured
5 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. 5 of the 180 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.
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: Openlands · The Morton Arboretum · Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation · Ageoptions Inc (Fka Suburban Area Agency on Aging) · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · The Dupage Community Foundation · Greater Chicago Food Depository · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · AARP · The Chicago Community Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Metropolitan Mayors Caucus funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Metropolitan Mayors Caucus. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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