Illinois · Nonprofit
CHICAGO COLLECTIONS CONSORTIUM INC NFP
CHICAGO COLLECTIONS CONSORTIUM INC NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $284,438 to it, the largest being GAYLORD AND DOROTHY DONNELLEY FOUNDATION ($175,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $226k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $284k
- Net assets
- $296k
What Chicago Collections Consortium Inc Nfp does
Mission
Chicago collections consortium (ccc) is a collaboration among libraries, museums, and allied organizations working together to collect, preserve, and share freely,openly, and equitably the history and culture of chicago with the world. Chicago collections envisions a world where the history of chicago is made accessible to diverse communities to foster understanding, inspiration, and knowledge creation through engagement with primary sources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Programs and outreach the portal, known as explore chicago collections (https://explore.chicagocollections.org/), is the organization's cornerstone initiative that was made public in october 2015. The portal serves as a free, centralized, web-based search engine and record-finding tool that allows researchers, teachers, students, and the general public to locate or access over 100,000 maps, photos, letters, and other archival materials held at ccc's member institutions. This last year had the largest percentage of new users to explore, averaging 90% first time users. These users came from 167 countries, though 30% still originated from the chicagoland area. Our visitors also explored explore even more this year, with a big jump in our individual site views, up 37%. Sixteen free public programs were offered virtually and in person. Programs were recorded and reshared on ccc's youtube channel attracting an even wider audience. 2024-25 programs included a discussion with chicago covenants, mapping indigenous chicago, dear rhoda-a play in two acts, by donna russell and david ranney, creating and preserving disorder: royko, daley, and the 1968 dnc, political collections in the archives…
$186,518 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $186,518.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2019 to 2020, from $93k to $179k (+92%).
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 16% · 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CHICAGO COLLECTIONS CONSORTIUM INC NFP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Ellen Keith
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $26k → $30k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 CHICAGO COLLECTIONS CONSORTIUM INC NFP’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
CHICAGO COLLECTIONS CONSORTIUM INC NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
30% 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 CHICAGO COLLECTIONS CONSORTIUM INC NFP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 42% · 2021 88% · 2022 86% · 2023 83% — diversifying over time.
“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
100% of CHICAGO COLLECTIONS CONSORTIUM INC NFP's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CHICAGO COLLECTIONS CONSORTIUM INC NFP holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHICAGO COLLECTIONS CONSORTIUM INC NFP
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHICAGO COLLECTIONS CONSORTIUM INC NFP?
- CHICAGO COLLECTIONS CONSORTIUM INC NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $284,438 to it, the largest being GAYLORD AND DOROTHY DONNELLEY FOUNDATION ($175,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHICAGO COLLECTIONS CONSORTIUM INC NFP have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $284,438 in grants to CHICAGO COLLECTIONS CONSORTIUM INC NFP, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO COLLECTIONS CONSORTIUM INC NFP?
- GAYLORD AND DOROTHY DONNELLEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHICAGO COLLECTIONS CONSORTIUM INC NFP 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing