Illinois · Nonprofit
City Colleges of Chicago Foundation
City Colleges of Chicago Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,632,062 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($15,023,534). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.2M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $33M
- Net assets
- $24M
What City Colleges of Chicago Foundation does
Mission
Fueled by the generosity of Chicago's philanthropic community, the City Colleges of Chicago Foundation raises charitable contributions to support community colleges students from all backgrounds in reaching their academic and career goals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for educational purposes to assist in developing and augmenting the resources and carrying out the educational functions of the City Colleges of Chicago, established and operated by the Board of Trustees of Community College District No. 508, Cook County, State of Illinois, to the end there may be provided in the college's community broader educational opportunities for and service to the student and alumni of the college and the citizens of this state and nation. The Foundation provides scholarships and skilled upgrades to 1,287 students.
$8,115,843 spentof which $8,019,233 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,115,843.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $15M to $23M (+55%).
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.
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.
Chief executive
Marcus Hardaway
Executive Director
Board chair
Gary L Rozier
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 21 funders, grant income rose $200k → $4.0M.
10 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 City Colleges of Chicago Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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
City Colleges of Chicago Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 City Colleges of Chicago Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 62% · 2019 40% · 2020 34% · 2021 74% · 2022 65% · 2023 38% — 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
36% of City Colleges of Chicago Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
51% of City Colleges of Chicago Foundation'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 $16M that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 16 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Organizations like City Colleges of Chicago 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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- City Colleges of Chicago · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for City Colleges of Chicago 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 City Colleges of Chicago Foundation?
- City Colleges of Chicago Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,632,062 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($15,023,534). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does City Colleges of Chicago Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $32,632,062 in grants to City Colleges of Chicago Foundation, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of City Colleges of Chicago Foundation?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $15,023,534 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like City Colleges of Chicago 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 61 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