Illinois · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION INC
COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,000 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2021
- $800
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $21k
- Net assets
- $45
What Community First Foundation Inc does
Mission
Healthy living and com building
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Meals and school supplies for the youth reached over 250 families
$500 spentof which $500 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $500.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Michelle Scott
Chief executive director
As listed on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION INC’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
COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION INC.
“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.
Where its funders are
71% of COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION INC'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 $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION INC
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION INC?
- COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,000 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $21,000 in grants to COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION INC 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2021–2021), and the filings of 2 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