Illinois · Nonprofit
CHINMAYA MISSION CHICAGO
CHINMAYA MISSION CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $941,600 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($442,321). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $942k
- Net assets
- $17M
What Chinmaya Mission Chicago does
Mission
Provide religious and spiritual guidance to the community and support charitable projects in US and India
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Provided religious, spiritual and cultural classes, discourses and retreats and camps to approximately 500 families in the greater Chicago area. Over 600 children and 200 adults attend weekly Sunday prayers and spiritual study and cultural classes. Conducted more than 10 discourses and 6 camps for children, young adults and adults. Supported 3 recognized charitable organizations that provide social services, education, and healthcare for the under-privileged in rural India and provided funds to support Chinmaya Mission activities in India. Other annual events include blood donation drives and food donations to Lake and DuPage County Food Depositories.
$1,172,383 spent$1,354,200 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,172,383.
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 $9.6M to $18M (+89%).
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: 2017 3% · 2018 5% · 2019 6% · 2020 0% · 2021 6% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of CHINMAYA MISSION CHICAGO’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $27k → $129k.
12 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 CHINMAYA MISSION CHICAGO’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
CHINMAYA MISSION CHICAGO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 CHINMAYA MISSION CHICAGO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 73% · 2019 49% · 2020 36% · 2021 83% · 2022 53% · 2023 47% — 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.
How long its funders stay
42% of CHINMAYA MISSION CHICAGO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
93% of CHINMAYA MISSION CHICAGO's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $66k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $876k 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
CHINMAYA MISSION CHICAGO runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,399 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,399 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CHINMAYA MISSION CHICAGO
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHINMAYA MISSION CHICAGO?
- CHINMAYA MISSION CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $941,600 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($442,321). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHINMAYA MISSION CHICAGO have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $941,600 in grants to CHINMAYA MISSION CHICAGO, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHINMAYA MISSION CHICAGO?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $442,321 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHINMAYA MISSION CHICAGO 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 22 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