Illinois · Nonprofit
CHICAGO LOOP ALLIANCE
CHICAGO LOOP ALLIANCE (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,850 to it, the largest being DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $37k
- Net assets
- $387k
What Chicago Loop Alliance does
Mission
The mission of the Chicago Loop Alliance is to create, manage and promote high-performing urban experiences, attracting people and investment to the loop.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Promotion of commercial and economic prosperity of state street, chicago illinois, sidewalk maintenance and beautification. Supported by property taxes levied on neighborhood commercial properties which are collected by the city of chicago.
Events and promotions for visitors to the central business district of chicago.
Marketing activities that bring media attention to the loop.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2022 to 2023, from $6.0M to $1.7M (−73%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 7% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of CHICAGO LOOP ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Judie Green
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $14k → $600.
From the IRS filings of CHICAGO LOOP ALLIANCE’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 LOOP ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% 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
98% 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 LOOP ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 LOOP ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
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.
Against its field
CHICAGO LOOP ALLIANCE's revenue fell 53% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CHICAGO LOOP ALLIANCE
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.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHICAGO LOOP ALLIANCE: 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 LOOP ALLIANCE?
- CHICAGO LOOP ALLIANCE (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,850 to it, the largest being DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHICAGO LOOP ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $36,850 in grants to CHICAGO LOOP ALLIANCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO LOOP ALLIANCE?
- DEPAUL UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHICAGO LOOP ALLIANCE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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