Illinois · Nonprofit
CHICAGO NEW BUSINESS NFP
CHICAGO NEW BUSINESS NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $167,553 to it, the largest being WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER ($152,653). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $235k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $168k
- Net assets
- $47k
What Chicago New Business Nfp does
Mission
Our mission at 36Squared Business Incubator is to empower entrepreneurs of all abilities to start and grow theirs businesses. We provide personalized support in areas like access to capital, business planning, and market research. We aim to boost economic growth, foster innovation, and offer high-quality resources and information to all, regardless of ethnicity, gender, background, or abilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Assisted more that 30 local, disadvantaged and disables entrepreneurs launch and grow their business through multiple session of one to one advaising
$100,000 spent$100,000 earned by the program43% of program spendingHosted 6 areas business in an inclusive ( able and disabled, multi racial) shared workspace.
$75,000 spent$75,000 earned by the program32% of program spendingHead more that 20 webinars and online trainings on business subjects like "where to go when the bank say No" (funding) "Business Plan Basics, as well as "Staring Your Business in Chicago"
$24,992 spent$24,992 earned by the program11% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$35,000 spent$35,000 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $234,992.
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 $100k to $33k (−67%).
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: 2024 0% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CHICAGO NEW BUSINESS NFP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Erika G Gonzalez
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 NEW BUSINESS 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 NEW BUSINESS NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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
100% 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 NEW BUSINESS NFP.
“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 NEW BUSINESS NFP's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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 NEW BUSINESS NFP has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding CHICAGO NEW BUSINESS NFP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $80k on record.
- Small Business Administration$80k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CHICAGO NEW BUSINESS NFP
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
100% 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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHICAGO NEW BUSINESS NFP: 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 NEW BUSINESS NFP?
- CHICAGO NEW BUSINESS NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $167,553 to it, the largest being WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER ($152,653). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHICAGO NEW BUSINESS NFP have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $167,553 in grants to CHICAGO NEW BUSINESS NFP, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO NEW BUSINESS NFP?
- WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $152,653 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHICAGO NEW BUSINESS 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 2 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