Illinois · Nonprofit
CHICAGO HOPE INC
CHICAGO HOPE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,072 to it, the largest being The Russell and Carey Jeffrey Family Foundation ($65,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CHICAGO HOPE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,754 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,754 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- Robert R McCormick Foundationshared funderslocal
- Northern Illinois Food Bankportfolio match
- Minnco Credit Union Foundation Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $0 → $25k.
From the IRS filings of CHICAGO HOPE INC’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 HOPE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 86%; 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: 2018 100% · 2019 57% · 2020 75% · 2021 60% · 2022 82% · 2023 80% — 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.
How long its funders stay
17% of CHICAGO HOPE INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 55% 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
CHICAGO HOPE INC draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Robert R McCormick Foundationshared funderslocalIL · backs 52 organizations that share your funders · funds 426 organizations near you
- Northern Illinois Food Bankportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Minnco Credit Union Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Essential Needsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dan Gibbons Turkey Trot Foundation Nfpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hunger Solutions Minnesotaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Keeping Families Coveredportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marquette Bank Affordable Housing Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Means Database Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Give N Kindportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arie and Ida Crown Memorialshared fundersIL · backs 69 organizations that share your funders
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 CHICAGO HOPE INC
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.
Public support
97%
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 HOPE INC: 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 CHICAGO HOPE INC?
- CHICAGO HOPE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,072 to it, the largest being The Russell and Carey Jeffrey Family Foundation ($65,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHICAGO HOPE INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $116,072 in grants to CHICAGO HOPE INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO HOPE INC?
- The Russell and Carey Jeffrey Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHICAGO HOPE INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 11funders 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