Illinois · Nonprofit
CHICAGO ROOFERS AND WATERPROOFERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
CHICAGO ROOFERS AND WATERPROOFERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,761 to it, the largest being UNITED UNION OF ROOFERS WATERPROOFERS AND ALLIED WORKERS ($48,011). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $189k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $68k
- Net assets
- $73k
What Chicago Roofers and Waterproofers Charitable Foundation does
Mission
The purpose of the Chicago Roofers and Waterproofers Charitable Foundation is to provide financial assistance to other not-for-profit charitable organizations as classified by the internal revenue service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Golf outing held to raise money in order to provide financial assistance to other not-for-profit charitable organizations.
$150,830 spentof which $150,830 as grants$189,453 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $150,830.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $36k to $73k (+101%).
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.
103% of CHICAGO ROOFERS AND WATERPROOFERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $19k → $8k.
From the IRS filings of CHICAGO ROOFERS AND WATERPROOFERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’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 ROOFERS AND WATERPROOFERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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 ROOFERS AND WATERPROOFERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 63% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
CHICAGO ROOFERS AND WATERPROOFERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 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.
Against its field
CHICAGO ROOFERS AND WATERPROOFERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHICAGO ROOFERS AND WATERPROOFERS CHARITABLE 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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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 ROOFERS AND WATERPROOFERS CHARITABLE 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 ROOFERS AND WATERPROOFERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
- CHICAGO ROOFERS AND WATERPROOFERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,761 to it, the largest being UNITED UNION OF ROOFERS WATERPROOFERS AND ALLIED WORKERS ($48,011). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHICAGO ROOFERS AND WATERPROOFERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $67,761 in grants to CHICAGO ROOFERS AND WATERPROOFERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO ROOFERS AND WATERPROOFERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
- UNITED UNION OF ROOFERS WATERPROOFERS AND ALLIED WORKERS is the largest funder on record, with $48,011 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHICAGO ROOFERS AND WATERPROOFERS CHARITABLE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing