Illinois · Nonprofit
BETTER STREETS CHICAGO
BETTER STREETS CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,954 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($58,954). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
BETTER STREETS CHICAGO runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,119 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,119 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)localportfolio match
- The Lewis Family Charitable Foundationshared funders
- Peopleforbikes Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 BETTER STREETS CHICAGO’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
BETTER STREETS CHICAGO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 BETTER STREETS CHICAGO.
“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.
Where its funders are
92% of BETTER STREETS 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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)localportfolio matchIL · funds 174 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Lewis Family Charitable Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 9 organizations that share your funders
- Peopleforbikes Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Public Transportation Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Crossroads Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Springboard Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peopleforbikes Coalition Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Clare Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for Neighborhood Technologyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harper Court Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Transitcenter Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BETTER STREETS CHICAGO
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BETTER STREETS 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BETTER STREETS CHICAGO?
- BETTER STREETS CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,954 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($58,954). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BETTER STREETS CHICAGO have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $63,954 in grants to BETTER STREETS CHICAGO, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BETTER STREETS CHICAGO?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $58,954 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BETTER STREETS 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing