Illinois · Nonprofit
CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC
CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC (Illinois) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,315,789 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($2,760,364). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year. CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.3M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $7.3M
- Net assets
- $15M
Hosts funds for others
CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programCHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$1.4M
Recipients
8
Contributions on record
$7.3M
Donors on record
22
Payments out are 0.19x the contributions on record, so the balance accumulates rather than passing straight through.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $37M to $22M (−41%).
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: 2017 100% · 2018 39% · 2019 34% · 2020 5% · 2021 7% · 2022 1% · 2023 18% · 2024 1% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Terrence Johnson
Executive director, gac
Board chair
Merlon Jackson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $625k → $260k.
4 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES 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.
Where its funders are
65% of CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
37% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
46%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 13 related entities
- Pullman Park Development 2 LLC · disregarded
- Greenwood Archer Capital · exempt
- Reclaiming Chicago Nfp · exempt
- Cni Subsidiary Cde 1 LLC · partnership
- Cni Subsidiary Cde 2 LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC?
- CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC (Illinois) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,315,789 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($2,760,364). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year. CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $7,315,789 in grants to CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $2,760,364 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 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