Illinois · Nonprofit
ARISE CHICAGO
ARISE CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,776,039 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,001,850). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $6.8M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Arise Chicago does
Mission
Arise Chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Workplace improvements: in 2024, Arise Chicago provided information and support to workers to recover stolen wages and compensation, and create safer conditions and overall workplace improvements including winning wage increases. Recovered over $550,640 in owed wages and compensation for low-paid workers. Supported workers to increase wages by approximately $1,200,000 in 2024.
$1,008,107 spent55% of program spendingWorker education: in 2024, Arise Chicago provided mass worker education, training, and resources to low-paid, primarily immigrant workers facing wage theft, dangerous workplace conditions, health and safety hazards, discrimination, or other abuse. Arise trained 5,579 workers at virtual and in-person workshops. Arise reached thousands of workers through digital educational materials to provide information on their rights at work.
$458,230 spent25% of program spendingPolicy change & government improvement: city: arise served on the mayor's co-governance steering committee. County: following advocacy from arise, the cook county commission on human rights cchr hired an additional training & outreach coordinator. State: arise, as part of the raise the floor alliance (rtf), advocated at the state level for additional worker protections provisions, several of which were incorporated into amendments to the whistleblower protection act, which passed the illinois general assembly in may 2024 and took effect january 1, 2025.
$274,938 spent15% of program spendingElevate worker voices and stories: arise secured 111 media pieces, lifting the voices and stories of worker struggles in the public narrative.
$91,647 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,832,922.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.3M to $4.4M (+95%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 25% · 2022 3% · 2023 10% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of ARISE CHICAGO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Rev Cj Hawking
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $319k → $954k.
7 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ARISE CHICAGO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ARISE CHICAGO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
79% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ARISE CHICAGO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 28% · 2019 22% · 2020 19% · 2021 29% · 2022 47% · 2023 31% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
47% of ARISE CHICAGO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
56% of ARISE CHICAGO's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3.0M that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ARISE CHICAGO runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,551 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,551 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ARISE CHICAGO
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARISE CHICAGO: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARISE CHICAGO?
- ARISE CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,776,039 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,001,850). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ARISE CHICAGO have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $6,776,039 in grants to ARISE CHICAGO, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARISE CHICAGO?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,001,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARISE CHICAGO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 53 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing