How do I find funders for a education nonprofit in Illinois?

Start with the funders already giving to education in Illinois, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Big Ten Conference Inc, National Collegiate Athletic Association. Then look at who funds the education organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Illinois from out of state.

Who is the largest education funder in Illinois?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to education organizations in Illinois, $712M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to education in Illinois?

$8.0B reached 2,788 education organizations in Illinois, from 7,792 funders. 46% 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 · Education

Who funds education in Illinois

$8.0B reached 2,788 education organizations in Illinois, from 7,792 funders, with no single one dominating.

$8.0B

granted

2,788

organizations

46%

from in-state

The short version

7,792 funders gave $8.0B to 2,788 education organizations in Illinois across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
46% of that came from funders also based in Illinois; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of education in Illinois is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $712M.
The education organization drawing the most is University of Chicago, at $1.6B.

Largest funders of education in Illinois

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

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$712M 2The Big Ten Conference Inc$510M 3National Collegiate Athletic Association$336M 4Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$275M 5Northwestern Memorial HealthCare$259M 6The Chicago Community Trust$243M 7Loyola University Medical Center$235M 8National Philanthropic Trust$220M 9Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc$174M 10Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group$113M

Education organizations in Illinois that draw the most

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

2,778 other education organizations$3.6B

University of Chicago$1.6B Northwestern University$1.0B The Big Ten Conference Inc$341M Loyola University of Chicago$334M

How to find education funders in Illinois

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Start with the funders already active in Illinois
The funders giving the most to education in Illinois are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Big Ten Conference Inc, National Collegiate Athletic Association. A funder already writing education checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the education 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
54% of education money in Illinois comes from funders elsewhere, so national education funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Illinois.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a education nonprofit in Illinois?: Start with the funders already giving to education in Illinois, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Big Ten Conference Inc, National Collegiate Athletic Association. Then look at who funds the education organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Illinois from out of state.
Who is the largest education funder in Illinois?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to education organizations in Illinois, $712M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to education in Illinois?: $8.0B reached 2,788 education organizations in Illinois, from 7,792 funders. 46% 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.