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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.
Against its field
National Lawyers Guild - Chicago Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,796 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,796 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Willow Redistribution Foundationshared funders
- The Foundation of the Federal Bar Associationportfolio match
- The Chicago Bar Foundationportfolio match
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.
Funders to approach
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.
- Willow Redistribution Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
- The Foundation of the Federal Bar Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Chicago Bar Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Public Interest Law Initiativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Service Employees International Illinois Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Civil Justice Reform Groupportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinoisportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois Bar Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois Equal Justice Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicagoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Crossroads Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like National Lawyers Guild - Chicago Foundation
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.
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for National Lawyers Guild - Chicago Foundation: 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 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.
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 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing