Illinois · Nonprofit
THE COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO
THE COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $463,500 to it, the largest being ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.7M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $464k
- Net assets
- $14M
What The Commercial Club of Chicago does
Mission
See schedule othe purpose of The Commercial Club of Chicago is to promote the social and economic vitality of the metropolitan area of chicago.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Policy initiatives - the civic committee establishes task forces and committees addressing key policy issues confronting the chicago region. In fiscal 2025, key initiatives included: chicago business opportunity initiative task force, public safety task force, state finance task force, city finance working group, strategic planning working group, transportation task force, educational reform, and other initiatives.
$4,996,164 spentof which $100 as grants$7,433,903 earned by the program82% of program spendingThe club holds meetings and events throughout the year to discuss its programs and to hear speakers discuss key policy issues that impact the chicago region.
$1,097,142 spent$1,121,900 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,093,306.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $5.4M to $18M (+239%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Jennifer Scanlon
Director/chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $266k → $59k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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: $29M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Commercial Club Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO raised.
From the IRS filings of THE COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO’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
THE COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 THE COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 75% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
81% of THE COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $200k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like THE COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- The Commercial Club Foundation · exempt
- Civic Consulting Alliance · exempt
- Civic Committee Action · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO: 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 THE COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO?
- THE COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $463,500 to it, the largest being ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $463,500 in grants to THE COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO?
- ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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