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Illinois · Nonprofit
Cook County Bar Association (Illinois) is funded by 2 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $3,500 in grants to it, the largest being FOLEY & MANSFIELD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Cook County Bar Association is better cushioned than half of the 11,157 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,157 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
$1k from 1 funders in 2021, up from $3k and 1 in 2017.
From the IRS filings of Cook County Bar Association’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Cook County Bar Association 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
Cook County Bar Association draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
22% of spending goes to programs.
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 1 state
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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. view filing