Illinois · Nonprofit
Enlace Chicago
Enlace Chicago (Illinois) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,295,848 to it, the largest being ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION ($13,654,620). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 72
- Grants received
- $28M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Enlace Chicago does
Mission
Enlace Chicago convenes, organizes, and builds the capacity of little village stakeholders to confront systemic inequities and barriers to economic and social access. Enlace Chicago is dedicated to making a positive difference in the lives of little village residents by fostering a safe and healthy environment and by championing opportunities for educational advancement and economic development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
VIOLENCE PREVENTION: Enlace takes a comprehensive and trauma-informed approach to building safety and promoting peace in Little Village. Street outreach workers focus on reducing and preventing gun violence by working closely with program participants, parnters and other community members who are most impacted. master's level social workers provide clinical mentail health services, including conseling and workshops, for students, families and staff in local schools. Social workers provide mental health services in other accessible community locations for community members who are high need. A safe passage team works to improve safety along the routes that students and families travel to and from school. The violence prevention collaborative and the little village youth safety network convene stakeholders to plan and implement coordinated strategies that promote peace.
$3,047,380 spentof which $309,000 as grants51% of program spendingEDUCATION: Enlace promotes a strong culture of education in little village by partnering with local public schools and supporting successful transition to high school, post-secondary and beyond. Community schools are safe, accessible community centers that provide wrap-around family programming that promotes academic achievment, skill building, social emotional learning and leadership development. Post-secondary coordinators provide tailored support to high school students who face barriers in getting to college, including those who are undocumented. Parents are engaged as classroom aides, peer mentors and community leaders, and receive training related to topics such as post-secondary attainment, social emotional learning, and organizing and advocacy. Through system alignment, research and policy advocacy the little village education collaborative works with stakeholders to improve the education system in little village and enhance educational attainment from birth to old age.
$2,009,589 spent34% of program spendingCommunity health:resources include housing assistance, cash assistance, sharing of resources from other agencies, and partnerships with other agencies to provide community testing, vaccinations, and access to healthcare.
$643,642 spent11% of program spendingORGANIZING AND ADVOCACY: Enlace organizes community-based workshops, provides free legal services and engages in policy advocacy that benefits immigrant families. The free legal clinic provides a wide range of services in the areas of immigration, family, education, labor, criminal records, housing and consumer issues. Attorneys and staff support community members with immigration application processes such as adjustments of status, citizenship and the U-VISA. Educational sessions provide opportunities for community members to learn about and discuss topics such as know your rights and current immigration policy. Community leaders work with staff to develop and implement Enlace's immigration advocacy platform.
$272,818 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,973,429.
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 2019 to 2020, from $4.9M to $8.7M (+76%).
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: 2017 36% · 2018 39% · 2019 45% · 2020 45% · 2021 56% · 2022 50% · 2023 43% · 2024 65% · 2025 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Enlace Chicago’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $340k → $3.6M.
5 of 72 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 Enlace Chicago’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 72 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
Enlace Chicago leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 Enlace Chicago.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 27% · 2019 23% · 2020 50% · 2021 41% · 2022 66% · 2023 42% — growing more concentrated.
“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
46% of Enlace Chicago's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
60% of Enlace Chicago'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 $11M that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
Enlace Chicago runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 328 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Enlace Chicago
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
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 Enlace Chicago: 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 Enlace Chicago?
- Enlace Chicago (Illinois) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,295,848 to it, the largest being ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION ($13,654,620). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Enlace Chicago have?
- IRS filings report 72 organizations giving $28,295,848 in grants to Enlace Chicago, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Enlace Chicago?
- ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $13,654,620 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Enlace Chicago 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 72 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