How do I find funders for a community development nonprofit in Illinois?

Start with the funders already giving to community development in Illinois, currently The Chicago Community Trust, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. Then look at who funds the community development organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Illinois from out of state.

How much grant money goes to community development in Illinois?

$1.3B reached 1,142 community development organizations in Illinois, from 2,063 funders. 50% came from funders also based in Illinois.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Illinois · Community development

Who funds community development in Illinois

Community development funding in Illinois is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though The Chicago Community Trust leads, and the money reaches 1,142 groups.

$1.3B

granted

1,142

organizations

50%

from in-state

The short version

2,063 funders gave $1.3B to 1,142 community development organizations in Illinois across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
50% of that came from funders also based in Illinois; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of community development in Illinois is The Chicago Community Trust, at $160M.
The community development organization drawing the most is The Chicago Community Trust, at $104M.

Largest funders of community development in Illinois

The funders giving the most to community development organizations in Illinois, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1The Chicago Community Trust$160M 2Silicon Valley Community Foundation$118M 3Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$101M 4Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc$65M 5National Philanthropic Trust$53M 6John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation$49M 7The Commercial Club Foundation$31M 8Robert R McCormick Foundation$30M 9United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc$26M 10Sue Ling Gin Foundation Trust$21M

Community development organizations in Illinois that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

1,132 other community development organizations$809M

The Chicago Community Trust$104M Iff$97M Chicago Cred Inc$79M Inner-City Muslim Action Network$51M

How to find community development funders in Illinois

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Start with the funders already active in Illinois
The funders giving the most to community development in Illinois are The Chicago Community Trust, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. A funder already writing community development checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the community development organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
50% of community development money in Illinois comes from funders elsewhere, so national community development funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Illinois.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a community development nonprofit in Illinois?: Start with the funders already giving to community development in Illinois, currently The Chicago Community Trust, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. Then look at who funds the community development organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Illinois from out of state.
Who is the largest community development funder in Illinois?: The Chicago Community Trust gives the most to community development organizations in Illinois, $160M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to community development in Illinois?: $1.3B reached 1,142 community development organizations in Illinois, from 2,063 funders. 50% came from funders also based in Illinois.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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 camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.