Illinois · Nonprofit
CHICAGO'S NORTH SHORE CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU
CHICAGO'S NORTH SHORE CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being Northwestern University ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $333k
What Chicago's North Shore Convention and Visitors Bureau does
Mission
Chicago's North Shore Convention and Visitors Bureau solicits and services conventions, meetings, groups and individual visitors by promoting the north shore as a preferred destination.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Promoted tourism, meetings and conventions in the north shore communities of the chicago area, including and various media including print advertising, publications, internet, website and social media.
$4,966,478 spent$798,689 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,966,478.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $1.5M to $2.3M (+51%).
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: 2019 60% · 2020 60% · 2021 69% · 2022 74% · 2023 87% · 2024 87% · 2025 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of CHICAGO'S NORTH SHORE CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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
Dan Kelch
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of CHICAGO'S NORTH SHORE CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU’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
100% of CHICAGO'S NORTH SHORE CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
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'S NORTH SHORE CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU has grown faster than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CHICAGO'S NORTH SHORE CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHICAGO'S NORTH SHORE CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU: 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'S NORTH SHORE CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU?
- CHICAGO'S NORTH SHORE CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being Northwestern University ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHICAGO'S NORTH SHORE CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,000 in grants to CHICAGO'S NORTH SHORE CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU.
- Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO'S NORTH SHORE CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU?
- Northwestern University is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHICAGO'S NORTH SHORE CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 1 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