Illinois · Nonprofit
CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,320,562 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($320,495). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 124
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $25M
What Chicago Police Memorial Foundation does
Mission
The foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to honoring the lives of our fallen heroes. The foundation provides support and assistance to the families of chicago police officers who were killed or catastrophically injured in the line of duty.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Provided assistance to officers and their families injured or slain in the line of duty.
$1,964,632 spentof which $1,481,370 as grants85% of program spendingMaintenance on the gold star memorial park.
$343,799 spent15% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,308,431.
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 2023 to 2024, from $21M to $25M (+17%).
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 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $196k → $307k.
18 of 124 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 124 funders by total. 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 POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
46% 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 POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 29% · 2019 21% · 2020 10% · 2021 19% · 2022 14% · 2023 12% — 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
43% of CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
85% of CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL 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. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Against its field
CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $540k on record.
- Department of Justice$540k
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 POLICE MEMORIAL 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.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 POLICE MEMORIAL 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 POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION?
- CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,320,562 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($320,495). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 124 organizations giving $3,320,562 in grants to CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION, 69 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $320,495 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 124 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