Illinois · Nonprofit
The Chicago Community Trust
The Chicago Community Trust (Illinois) receives grants from 169 organizations whose IRS filings report $206,340,720 to it, the largest being Stamps Family Charitable Foundation Inc ($37,199,842). 89 of them have funded it in more than one year. The Chicago Community Trust administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
The Chicago Community Trust administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programThe Chicago Community Trust runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$7.3B
Recipients
8,888
Contributions on record
$386M
Donors on record
189
Payments out run 19.0x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.
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.
- Finnegan Family Foundationshared funders
- The David and Lynne Weinberg Family Foundationportfolio match
- Bolhous Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 1% · 2018 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 58 funders, grant income fell $29M → $19M.
30 of 169 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $163M from 16 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Silicon Valley Community Foundation); $16M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Burridge D Butler Memorial Trust of Chicago); $25k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest The Chicago Community Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money The Chicago Community Trust raised.
From the IRS filings of The Chicago Community Trust’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 169 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.
Where its funders are
The Chicago Community Trust draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 statesis 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.
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. Your 169 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Finnegan Family Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 39 organizations that share your funders
- The David and Lynne Weinberg Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bolhous Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Alfandre Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Skills for Chicagoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kiphart Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ilene & Michael Shaw Charitable Trust Iportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kurt B Karmin Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lathamcares Colleague Assistance Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Polk Bros Foundation Incshared fundersIL · backs 237 organizations that share your funders
- The Brinson Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 60 organizations that share your funders
- Cme Group Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 80 organizations that share your funders
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
42%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- The Burridge D Butler Memorial Trust · exempt
- Metropolis Strategies NFP · exempt
- PERT Foundation · exempt
- The Chicago Community Foundation · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Term Trust (4) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Chicago Community Trust: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds The Chicago Community Trust?
- The Chicago Community Trust (Illinois) receives grants from 169 organizations whose IRS filings report $206,340,720 to it, the largest being Stamps Family Charitable Foundation Inc ($37,199,842). 89 of them have funded it in more than one year. The Chicago Community Trust administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does The Chicago Community Trust have?
- IRS filings report 169 organizations giving $206,340,720 in grants to The Chicago Community Trust, 89 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Chicago Community Trust?
- Stamps Family Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $37,199,842 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Chicago Community Trust 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 169funders 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