Illinois · Nonprofit
CITY FIRST FOUNDATION
CITY FIRST FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being World Vision Inc ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CITY FIRST FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008localportfolio match
- Tyndale House Ministriesshared funders
- Onechicagofundportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of CITY FIRST FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008localportfolio matchIL · funds 102 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Tyndale House Ministriesshared fundersIL · backs 12 organizations that share your funders
- Onechicagofundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- World Business Chicagoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The MacKenzie Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Knight Impact Partnersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Harbor Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Out of the Box Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 125 Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- David and Karen Bere Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Together Chicago Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The William and Mary Davis Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CITY FIRST FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 CITY FIRST 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CITY FIRST FOUNDATION?
- CITY FIRST FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being World Vision Inc ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CITY FIRST FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to CITY FIRST FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of CITY FIRST FOUNDATION?
- World Vision Inc is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITY FIRST 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing