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FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHICAGO LODGE NO 7

FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHICAGO LODGE NO 7 (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being THE DONALD F AND ELIZABETH GARDNER FOUNDATION INC ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$11M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$17M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Fraternal Order of Police Chicago Lodge No 7 does

Mission

The organization's mission is to serve the interests of law enforcement at the local and state-wide levels, including legislation, labor, social events of law enforcement officers,etc. And to act as the collective bargaining agent for the members of the chicago police department below the rank of sergeants.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Collective bargaining

  2. Interest & grievance support

  3. Legal defense

  4. Merchandise sales, membership insurance, newsletter publication regarding fop activities and events and matters of interest to police officers, scholarships, officer awards, social events, goodwill and benefits for deceased/sick/injured officers, as well as other state and national programs and activities.

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($6.8M) Expenses 100 ($7.2M) Net assets 100 ($7.9M)2018 Revenue 111 ($7.6M) Expenses 99 ($7.1M) Net assets 104 ($8.2M)2019 Revenue 119 ($8.1M) Expenses 87 ($6.3M) Net assets 131 ($10M)2020 Revenue 117 ($7.9M) Expenses 83 ($6.0M) Net assets 162 ($13M)2021 Revenue 139 ($9.5M) Expenses 108 ($7.8M) Net assets 186 ($15M)2022 Revenue 147 ($10M) Expenses 121 ($8.7M) Net assets 187 ($15M)2023 Revenue 157 ($11M) Expenses 143 ($10M) Net assets 201 ($16M)2024 Revenue 157 ($11M) Expenses 136 ($9.8M) Net assets 217 ($17M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (157)Expenses (136)Net assets (217)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $14M to $17M (+21%).

$9.6M
$9.5M
$11M
$14M
$17M
$17M
$18M
$19M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$426k
’17
$410k
’18
$1.8M
’19
$1.9M
’20
$1.7M
’21
$1.3M
’22
$312k
’23
$848k
’24
5.3
months of
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.

Board chair

David Di Santi

Trustee chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2829294130284030
Joined·+1+0+14+1+2+13+0
No longer listed·002124110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'20
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHICAGO LODGE NO 7’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.

Where its funders are

100% of FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHICAGO LODGE NO 7's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHICAGO LODGE NO 7

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

27
board members
59%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • National Fraternal Order of Police · exempt
  • Fraternal Order of Police - Illinois State Lodge · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHICAGO LODGE NO 7: 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 FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHICAGO LODGE NO 7?
FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHICAGO LODGE NO 7 (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being THE DONALD F AND ELIZABETH GARDNER FOUNDATION INC ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHICAGO LODGE NO 7 have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHICAGO LODGE NO 7.
Who is the largest funder of FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHICAGO LODGE NO 7?
THE DONALD F AND ELIZABETH GARDNER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHICAGO LODGE NO 7 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