Illinois · Private foundation
Nicor Illinois Community Investment Inc
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.
- $500k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 21
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $22M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Nicor Illinois Community Investment Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $500k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $700k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $875k | 95% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $50k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Think Big Corporation | $400,000 | 3 | 42% |
| Harvey Brooks Motivation & Development Foundation | $300,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Proactive Community Services | $300,000 | 3 | 8% |
| YWCA Northwestern Illinois | $200,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Southland Development Authority Nfp | $200,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Chicago Southland Economic Development Corporation | $150,000 | 2 | 25% |
| Comprehensive Community Solutions Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| TREND Community Development Corporation | $100,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Allies for Community Business Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rosecrance Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($200k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Nicor Illinois Community Investment Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Community Foundation of Northern IL · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · Midland States Bank Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County · Guy Reno Family Foundation · Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation · Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Nicor Illinois Community Investment Inc
- How much does Nicor Illinois Community Investment Inc give?
- Nicor Illinois Community Investment Inc reported 5 grants totaling $500,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 21 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Nicor Illinois Community Investment Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (46%), Health (15%), Youth Development (14%).
- Who are Nicor Illinois Community Investment Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Think Big Corporation ($400k), Harvey Brooks Motivation & Development Foundation ($300k), Proactive Community Services ($300k).
- Does Nicor Illinois Community Investment Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nicor Illinois Community Investment Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Nicor Illinois Community Investment Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, The Chicago Community Trust, Community Foundation of Northern IL.
- Where is Nicor Illinois Community Investment Inc based?
- Nicor Illinois Community Investment Inc is based in IL.
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