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National Lawyers Guild - Chicago Foundation
National Lawyers Guild - Chicago Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,512 to it, the largest being Solidaire Network Inc ($68,200). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $181k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $80k
- Net assets
- $171k
What National Lawyers Guild - Chicago Foundation does
Mission
The National Lawyers Guild Chicago Foundation promotes the mission of the National Lawyers Guild - Chicago Chapter through public education and as-needed grants.The National Lawyers Guild - Chicago Chapter (NLGCC) is dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and economic system. NLGCC seeks to unite the lawyers, law students, legal workers and jailhouse lawyers of America in an organization that shall function as an effective political and social force in the service of the people, to the end that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property interests.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Promote the mission of the national lawyers guild - chicago chapter through public education and as-needed grants.
$20,220 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $20,220.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of National Lawyers Guild - Chicago Foundation’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
National Lawyers Guild - Chicago Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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
98% 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 National Lawyers Guild - Chicago Foundation.
“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
National Lawyers Guild - Chicago Foundation draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.
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.
Against its field
National Lawyers Guild - Chicago Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,798 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like National Lawyers Guild - Chicago Foundation
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.
Public support
27%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds National Lawyers Guild - Chicago Foundation?
- National Lawyers Guild - Chicago Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,512 to it, the largest being Solidaire Network Inc ($68,200). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does National Lawyers Guild - Chicago Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $79,512 in grants to National Lawyers Guild - Chicago Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of National Lawyers Guild - Chicago Foundation?
- Solidaire Network Inc is the largest funder on record, with $68,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like National Lawyers Guild - Chicago Foundation 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 4 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