Illinois · Nonprofit
ChicagoFIRST Association
ChicagoFIRST Association (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $18,500 to it, the largest being Northwestern Memorial HealthCare ($18,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $618k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $19k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What ChicagoFIRST Association does
Mission
ChicagoFIRST is a non-profit association of private firms in the Chicagoland area that collaborate with one another and with government at all levels to promote the resilience of its members and the Chicago business community. ChicagoFIRST functions as both insurance in the event of a crisis and as an investment in collaborating with one another and with the public sector at all levels. No other organization combines local preparedness with a national network so as to enhance resilience regionally. This is the unique vision of ChicagoFIRST.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Foster and facilitate coordination among the Chicago Business Organizations across various sectors with city, state, and federal agencies to discuss, develop, and execute planned responses and provide better communication in addressing regional disasters and infrastructure threats. This is accomplished through disaster simulation and discussion.
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 2021 to 2022, from $840k to $1.1M (+33%).
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.
91% of ChicagoFIRST Association’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Steven Caluris
Executive Director
Board chair
Bethany Netzel
Chair
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 ChicagoFIRST Association’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 ChicagoFIRST Association'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
ChicagoFIRST Association holds deeper cash reserves 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
Organizations like ChicagoFIRST Association
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ChicagoFIRST Association: 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 ChicagoFIRST Association?
- ChicagoFIRST Association (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $18,500 to it, the largest being Northwestern Memorial HealthCare ($18,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ChicagoFIRST Association have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $18,500 in grants to ChicagoFIRST Association.
- Who is the largest funder of ChicagoFIRST Association?
- Northwestern Memorial HealthCare is the largest funder on record, with $18,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ChicagoFIRST Association 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 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