Illinois · Nonprofit
CATHOLIC BISHOP OF CHICAGO
CATHOLIC BISHOP OF CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,882,440 to it, the largest being Catholic Education Scholarship Trust ($38,141,610). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Igivecatholicportfolio match
- The Catholic Foundation of North Georgiaportfolio match
- Ccf-La Supporting Organizationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of CATHOLIC BISHOP OF CHICAGO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 funders by total. Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
CATHOLIC BISHOP OF CHICAGO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
How long its funders stay
33% of CATHOLIC BISHOP OF CHICAGO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
CATHOLIC BISHOP OF CHICAGO draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 19 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
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.
- Igivecatholicportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Catholic Foundation of North Georgiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ccf-La Supporting Organizationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Catholic Education Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Commercial Club Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- J Jeffry and Elizabeth S Louisportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kay Torshen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Baila Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Esperanza Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Susan & Robert Wislowportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Supera Family 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.
Government funding CATHOLIC BISHOP OF CHICAGO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $688k on record.
- Department of Education$682k
- Department of Justice$6k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CATHOLIC BISHOP OF 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CATHOLIC BISHOP OF 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 CATHOLIC BISHOP OF CHICAGO?
- CATHOLIC BISHOP OF CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,882,440 to it, the largest being Catholic Education Scholarship Trust ($38,141,610). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CATHOLIC BISHOP OF CHICAGO have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $24,882,440 in grants to CATHOLIC BISHOP OF CHICAGO, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CATHOLIC BISHOP OF CHICAGO?
- Catholic Education Scholarship Trust is the largest funder on record, with $38,141,610 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CATHOLIC BISHOP OF 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 FY2023, and the filings of 56funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing