Illinois · Nonprofit
CHICAGO HEADLINE CLUB FOUNDATION
CHICAGO HEADLINE CLUB FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $171,829 to it, the largest being The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation ($102,329). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $76k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $172k
- Net assets
- $98k
What Chicago Headline Club Foundation does
Mission
Inspiring the future of journalism, the Chicago Headline Club Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the Chicago Headline Club.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Boot Camp Program (part of FOIAfest): 30 early-career professionals were matched with veteran journalistsin a mentor/mentee program.
$2,820 spent5% of program spendingFOIAfest 2023. Believed to be the largest of its kind in the US. 2023 FOIAfest was an online & in-person seminar with panelists teaching about how to use Freedom of Information Act requests. The event has hundreds of attendees, with dozens of panels and workshops featuring leading journalists, attorneys and community groups, plus new training and networking opportunities.
$25,278 spentof which $40,000 as grants48% of program spendingWe give various awards, scholarships and pay for college internships at Chicago-area media outlets
$24,500 spent47% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $52,598.
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 $79k to $106k (+33%).
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.
56% of CHICAGO HEADLINE CLUB FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $11k → $28k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 HEADLINE CLUB FOUNDATION’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 HEADLINE CLUB FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 69% · 2021 100% · 2022 50% · 2023 64% — 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
98% of CHICAGO HEADLINE CLUB FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 HEADLINE CLUB FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 17,804 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,804 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CHICAGO HEADLINE CLUB FOUNDATION
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.
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHICAGO HEADLINE CLUB FOUNDATION: 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 CHICAGO HEADLINE CLUB FOUNDATION?
- CHICAGO HEADLINE CLUB FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $171,829 to it, the largest being The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation ($102,329). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHICAGO HEADLINE CLUB FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $171,829 in grants to CHICAGO HEADLINE CLUB FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO HEADLINE CLUB FOUNDATION?
- The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $102,329 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHICAGO HEADLINE CLUB FOUNDATION 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 5 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