Illinois · Nonprofit
Garfield Park Community Council
Garfield Park Community Council (Illinois) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,339,162 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($937,725). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $902k
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Garfield Park Community Council does
Mission
Garfield Park Community Council is dedicated to the revitalization of Garfield Park community on Chicago's West Side, a neighborhood of rich history, committed residents, and tremendous opportunities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
GPCC focused on several programs that were helping renew the community's commercial corridors, spur new housing investment, address public safety, and build community connections, including:?The Building a Better Kedzie program, which is creating additional active and safe open spaces along the Kedzie Avenue business corridor and encouraging the growth of retail businesses;?Continuing to work to preserve housing units and assist landlords with property management through the Council's Housing Center;?Strengthening the garden teams that are part of the 30-member Garfield Park Garden Network.
$259,618 spent$10,423 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $259,618.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $2.2M to $2.9M (+32%).
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: 2019 7% · 2020 13% · 2021 11% · 2022 20% · 2023 1% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of Garfield Park Community Council’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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 3 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $26k → $741k.
4 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 Garfield Park Community Council’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
Garfield Park Community Council has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
61% 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 Garfield Park Community Council.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 42% · 2019 46% · 2020 41% · 2021 21% · 2022 30% · 2023 23% — diversifying over time.
“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
50% of Garfield Park Community Council's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
66% of Garfield Park Community Council's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $998k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Garfield Park Community Council holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Garfield Park Community Council
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Anathoth Gardens LP · partnership
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Garfield Park Community Council: 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 Garfield Park Community Council?
- Garfield Park Community Council (Illinois) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,339,162 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($937,725). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Garfield Park Community Council have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $3,339,162 in grants to Garfield Park Community Council, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Garfield Park Community Council?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $937,725 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Garfield Park Community Council 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 35 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