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.
- Revenue FY2024
- $64k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $106k
What City First Foundation does
Mission
City first's mission is to resource urban neighborhoods, ministries, and families educationally, economically, socially and spiritually. 1. We maintain an urban hub for missional communities we share the tapestry center & annex facility with churches and missional communities we provide a facility for groups that perform missional outreach and retreats in chicago we sponsor art, concerts & community events 2. We cultivate church planting & the strengthening of neighborhoods we facilitate the creation of new churches and ministries - tapestry fellowship we participate in neighborhood organizations and city-wide partnerships we provide care and counseling through individual and small group outreaches 3. We help promote leadership development we host gatherings for religious and business growth organizations we initiate programs that stimulate leadership development
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
We maintain an urban hub for missional communities
$85,955 spentof which $100 as grants$1,419 earned by the program86% of program spendingWe cultivate church planting & the strengthening of neighborhoods
$1,800 spent2% of program spendingWe help promote leadership development
$12,248 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $100,003.
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 2023 to 2024, from $366k to $829k (+126%).
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
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.
Against its field
CITY FIRST FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like CITY FIRST 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
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.
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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 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