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The Chicago Community Trust

The Trust is the Chicago region's community foundation and a public charity supported by public donations since its founding in 1915 to provide assistance and relief to the people of the region.

$1.2B
Granted FY2025still arriving
4,316
Grants FY2025still arriving
51
States reached
$47M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.3BHealth$735MHousing & Shelter$693MCommunity Improvement$596MPhilanthropy$566MHuman Services$543MEnvironment$430MArts & Culture$361MOther$0
02FY2025 · 4316 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k471 grants · $3.3M
  • $10k–50k2125 grants · $41M
  • $50k–250k1109 grants · $116M
  • $250k+611 grants · $1.1B
$26,500
Median grant
51
States reached
$7.1B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ImpactAssets Inc$47,000,000
Climate Imperative Foundation$40,000,000
Breakthrough Energy Catalyst Foundation$30,000,000
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation$30,000,000
Low Income Investment Fund$30,000,000
The Pew Charitable Trusts$25,000,000
Taproot Earth$25,000,000
Community Reinvestment Fund Inc$20,000,000
Climate Lead Inc$20,000,000
Craft3$15,000,000
National Philanthropic Trust$13,785,239
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$13,577,161
Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham$12,500,000
Allied Climate Partners Inc$12,500,000
Vanderbilt University Medical Center$12,005,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $544.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Human Resource Development Council of District IX Inc: $5.0M → 10%I Foster Inc: $5.0M → 11%Community Action Partnership of Kern: $5.0M → 18%Rising Ground: $8.0M → 20%Pinellas County Urban League Inc: $6.0M → 12%Four Oaks Family and Children's Services: $8.0M → 9%Family & Community Services Inc: $5.0M → 12%Partner Community Capital Inc: $7.0M → 9%Start Corporation: $5.0M → 16%First Children's Finance: $5.0M → 11%Regional Task Force on the Homeless Inc: $5.0M → 11%BronxWorks Inc: $5.0M → 28%Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe: $5.0M → 14%Urban League of Palm Beach County Inc: $5.1M → 11%Strategies to End Homelessness Inc: $5.0M → 16%Latino Community Foundation: $10.0M → 10%Arab Community Center for Economic & Social Services Access: $20.0M → 21%Louisville Urban League: $5.7M → 15%Women's Refugee Commission: $6.0M → 17%Crossroads Rhode Island: $5.0M → 14%Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami Inc: $5.0M → 13%Catholic Community Services of Western Washington: $5.0M → 9%Chapman Partnership Inc: $5.0M → 15%Zero to Three National Center for Infants Toddlers and Families: $10.0M → 14%SOUTHERN PARTNERS FUND INC: $10.0M → 13%Immigrant Legal Resource Center: $8.0M → 10%Southern Partners Fund: $5.0M → 13%Aunt Marthas Health and Wellness Inc: $9.0M → 14%The Road Home: $5.0M → 8%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $7.8M → 14%TIDES CENTER: $8.3M → 10%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $7.4M → 14%THE TIDES CENTER: $8.2M → 10%The Tides Center: $8.1M → 10%New York Women's Foundation: $15.1M → 17%People Assisting the Homeless: $5.0M → 14%Catholic Charities San Francisco: $5.0M → 10%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $10.0M → 17%ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION INC: $5.0M → 17%Harlem Children's Zone Inc: $8.0M → 17%Merit America: $15.0M → 14%Metropolitan Family Service: $6.5M → 14%National Council of YMCAs of the USA: $20.0M → 14%NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YMCAS OF THE USA: $15.0M → 14%National Council of YMCAs of the USA: $15.0M → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $11.2M → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $9.6M → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $5.5M → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of The Chicago Community Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Chicago Community Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4B · 1230 repeat orgs$2.8B to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.

1230 repeat relationships: 961 still active in FY2025, 269 since wound down; 86 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1230
576

Total granted

$4.4B
$2.5B

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
-9%

Still filing today

91%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $281M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    5× · 2017–2024 · $65M · revenue +62%
  • CC
    Chicago Cred Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $62M · revenue +982% · 84% of their budget
  • CI
    CAPITAL IMPACT PARTNERS
    2× · 2020–2024 · $60M · revenue +38% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

  • BS
    BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25M · revenue -64% · 84% of their budget
  • COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20M · revenue +40% · 43% of their budget
  • TI
    TOSTAN INC
    one grant, 2021 · $20M · revenue -76% · 61% of their budget
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Central Indiana Corporate

The central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is transforming our regional economy, bringing together the ceos of central indiana's largest and most civically engaged employers and university presidents to advance "big picture"…

Community Improvement
2
United Food Bank

Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
3
University of Denver

A higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Education
4
The Common Application Inc

The common application promotes access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process.

Education
5
The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center Inc

Deliver world-class resources and mentoring to enable every entrepreneur across the globe to realize their maximum potential.

Arts & Culture
6
University of New Haven

See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.

Education
7
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
8
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher learning in the liberal arts.

Education
9
One Community Health

To advance health and social justice for all members of our community.

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10
Arbor Research Collaborative for

To improve patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice.

Health
11
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

the organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the UCSF Foundation.

Education
12
International Community Health Services

Provide health services to improve the health of asian pacific islander and other communities.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health and Medicine Policy Research; the most unlike its peers is Enchanted Backpack. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

1874 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1874 of the 2,000 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.

603
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
342
Early backer (in before they grew)
1860/1874
Grantees still filing
1191/1874
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DUKE UNIVERSITY: $53,951,350 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYHAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $30,060,000 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $26,233,598 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $26,143,840 · EducationYouth Guidance: $25,812,479 · EducationBOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $24,391,655 · EducationMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $21,061,608 · Education+28 more: $385,075,762 · Education+28 moreHeartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights: $65,638,312 · OtherSave The Children Federation Inc: $56,768,361 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $65,013,090 · OtherChicago Cred Inc: $61,901,816 · OtherMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $55,765,733 · OtherCAPITAL IMPACT PARTNERS: $60,000,000 · OtherNorthwestern University: $57,457,952 · Other+80 more: $1,206,602,084 · Other+80 moreBreakthrough Energy Catalyst Foundation: $120,000,000 · EnvironmentBreakthroug…CLIMATE IMPERATIVE FOUNDATION: $100,000,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE IMP…Taproot Earth: $25,000,000 · EnvironmentTaproot Ear…RIGHTS AND RESOURCES INSTITUTE INC: $24,900,000 · EnvironmentRIGHTS AND …SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $20,000,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE LEAD INC: $20,000,000 · EnvironmentGRID ALTERNATIVES: $15,006,000 · EnvironmentWINDWARD FUND: $14,301,000 · Environment+4 more: $46,661,113 · Environment+4 moreIMPACTASSETSINC: $77,274,300 · PhilanthropyIMPACTASSET…NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $57,589,406 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PH…TIDES FOUNDATION: $28,028,812 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUND…The Pew Charitable Trusts: $25,000,000 · PhilanthropyThe Pew Cha…FOREFRONT: $23,192,275 · PhilanthropyFOREFRONTUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $22,572,539 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …WOMEN DONORS NETWORK: $22,060,000 · PhilanthropyWOMEN DONOR…ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $18,318,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $18,190,976 · Philanthropy+9 more: $92,985,232 · Philanthropy+9 moreTIDES CENTER: $66,764,933 · Human ServicesTIDES CEN…Metropolitan Family Services: $59,924,973 · Human ServicesMetropoli…National Council of YMCAs of the USA: $50,030,000 · Human ServicesNational …NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $27,357,500 · Human ServicesNEW YORK …ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $20,025,000 · Human ServicesARAB COMM…MERIT AMERICA: $15,000,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN PARTNERS FUND INC: $15,000,000 · Human Services+8 more: $79,874,750 · Human Services+8 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $43,240,926 · Community ImprovementHOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION: $38,200,000 · Community ImprovementACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $38,000,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY REINVESTMENT FUND INC: $35,077,500 · Community ImprovementCRAFT3: $25,000,000 · Community ImprovementACCESS TO CAPITAL FOR ENTREPRENEURS INC: $15,200,000 · Community ImprovementNEW PROFIT INC: $15,000,000 · Community ImprovementGENESIS LA ECONOMIC GROWTH CORPORATION: $15,000,000 · Community ImprovementRACE FORWARD: $12,003,682 · Community ImprovementCHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC: $10,734,038 · Community ImprovementGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $10,110,000 · Community ImprovementThe Latino Coalition for Community Leadership: $10,000,000 · Community ImprovementOWEESTA CORPORATION: $10,000,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $18,291,782 · Community ImprovementLOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUND: $40,000,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY FIRST FUND: $25,000,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORPORATION: $23,560,000 · Housing & ShelterCHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUST: $20,005,833 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $20,000,000 · Housing & ShelterCenter for Housing and Health: $19,117,176 · Housing & ShelterSARAH'S CIRCLE: $18,122,862 · Housing & ShelterNATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING COALITION: $15,300,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN ATLANTA INC: $13,527,300 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC: $11,000,000 · Housing & ShelterFORT WORTH AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $11,000,000 · Housing & ShelterHouston Habitat for Humanity Inc: $11,000,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Resurrection Project: $10,511,127 · Housing & ShelterDURHAM COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTEES INC: $10,000,000 · Housing & ShelterHOMESTEAD COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $10,000,000 · Housing & ShelterCITY OF LAKES COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $10,000,000 · Housing & ShelterOakland Community Land Trust: $10,000,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$617,730,292Other$1,629,147,348Environment$385,868,113Philanthropy$385,211,540Human Services$333,977,156Community Improvement$295,857,928Housing & Shelter$278,144,298

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBreakthrough Energy Catalyst Foundation: $120,000,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetCLIMATE IMPERATIVE FOUNDATION: $100,000,000 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetIMPACTASSETSINC: $77,274,300 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $66,764,933 over 9y, 5.5% of budgetHeartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights: $65,638,312 over 8y, 43% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $65,013,090 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetChicago Cred Inc: $61,901,816 over 8y, 84% of budgetCAPITAL IMPACT PARTNERS: $60,000,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services: $59,924,973 over 9y, 14% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $57,589,406 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNorthwestern University: $57,457,952 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $56,768,361 over 9y, 5.5% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $55,765,733 over 7y, 17% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $53,951,350 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $51,659,141 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetNational Council of YMCAs of the USA: $50,030,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $43,240,926 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUND: $40,000,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetHOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION: $38,200,000 over 3y, 61% of budgetACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $38,000,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetCOMMUNITY REINVESTMENT FUND INC: $35,077,500 over 3y, 43% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $33,635,373 over 8y, 11% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $33,201,716 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $30,250,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $30,060,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $28,076,640 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $28,028,812 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $27,357,500 over 9y, 72% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $26,233,598 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $26,143,840 over 7y, 33% of budgetYouth Guidance: $25,812,479 over 9y, 38% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $25,095,134 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $25,050,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetCRAFT3: $25,000,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetBOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000,000 over 1y, 84% of budgetCOMMUNITY FIRST FUND: $25,000,000 over 2y, 66% of budgetThe Pew Charitable Trusts: $25,000,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetRIGHTS AND RESOURCES INSTITUTE INC: $24,900,000 over 2y, 49% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $24,391,655 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORPORATION: $23,560,000 over 5y, 39% of budgetFOREFRONT: $23,192,275 over 9y, 44% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $22,572,539 over 9y, 10% of budgetWOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $22,306,292 over 8y, 54% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $22,285,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetWOMEN DONORS NETWORK: $22,060,000 over 9y, 32% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $21,061,608 over 6y, 9.8% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC: $20,608,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $20,416,250 over 5y, 46% of budget
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 Breakthrough Energy Catalyst Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATE IMPERATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Cred Inc ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL IMPACT PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds National Council of YMCAs of the USA ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds LOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUND ↗
  • Who funds HOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HAMPTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
  • Who funds Youth Guidance ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
  • Who funds CRAFT3 ↗
  • Who funds BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Taproot Earth ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FIRST FUND ↗
  • Who funds The Pew Charitable Trusts ↗
  • Who funds RIGHTS AND RESOURCES INSTITUTE INC ↗

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.

Field Foundation of I…Polk Bros Foundation …The Albert Pick Jr Fu…United Way of Metropo…Lloyd a Fry FoundationChicago Foundation fo…Robert R McCormick Fo…Woods Fund of ChicagoAlphawood FoundationForefrontMichael Reese Health …Healthy Communities F…
Field Foundation of IllinoisIL96.9× affinity310 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Field Foundation of Illinois · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Albert Pick Jr Fund · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Woods Fund of Chicago · Alphawood Foundation · Forefront · Michael Reese Health Trust · Healthy Communities Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Chicago Community Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chicago Community Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Health Resources in Action Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Champlain Housing Trust: 15% of income from government
  • Habitat for Humanity Portland Metro East: 14% of income from government
  • Vermont Law School: 14% of income from government
  • Icivics Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank: 13% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Jobs for the Future Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Citizen Schools Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Ywca Hartford Region Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Care Resource Community Health Centers Incorporated: 4% of income from government
  • Ochin Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Achievement Network Ltd: 1% of income from government
  • CRAFT3: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
61report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 2000 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home