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Illinois Grantmaking Charities Making Grants Over $100,000

These 45 organizations are based in Illinois and reported a median grant of $100,000 or more on their most recent Form 990 Schedule I filing. A typical grant is not a promise about any single gift -- some of an organization's grants are smaller than its median, some are larger -- but it is a reasonable signal for whether an application here fits the size of your ask.

45organizations in this range
$26.5Bgranted between them
3,248funding relationships mapped

A median grant over $100,000 is large by this site's standards. It is worth reading the organization's own page before treating it as a routine prospect -- Schedule I does not ask a grantmaking charity whether it only funds organizations it already knows, so unlike the private-foundation pages on this site, nothing here can tell you how open a given grantmaker actually is to a first, unsolicited approach.

Ordered by number of organizations funded, not by dollars -- the same convention as every list on this site. Funding more organizations means more turnover in who gets a grant each year, which is a reasonable proxy for how often a list like this one changes -- it is not a signal that any specific organization is open to a new, unsolicited applicant.

OrganizationBased inMedian grantOrganizationsTotal granted
Northern Illinois Food BankGeneva$104,940394$682.0M
University of ChicagoChicago$134,072322$397.3M
Feeding AmericaChicago$10.8M270$22.1B
Chicago Cook Workforce PartnershipChicago$279,501215$346.4M
Alzheimer's Disease & Related DisordersChicago$298,989175$277.3M
Ronald Mcdonald House GlobalChicago$259,954141$276.6M
Illinois Coalition for ImmigrantChicago$188,186116$116.7M
American Lung AssociationChicago$200,000112$66.7M
Big Shoulders FundChicago$103,380103$72.1M
All Chicago Making Homelessness HistoryChicago$107,70699$46.1M
Ui Labs IncChicago$123,37580$39.4M
AIDS Foundation of ChicagoChicago$133,44474$115.3M
Start EarlyChicago$253,29565$159.7M
National Center for Teacher ResidenciesChicago$120,00063$23.3M
Illinois Coalition Against DomesticSpringfield$229,54561$63.5M
Crown Family FoundationChicago$192,18758$159.1M
The Resurrection ProjectChicago$237,30256$17.8M
Citizens United for Research in EpilepsyChicago$100,00049$9.6M
Gateway for Cancer ResearchChicago$267,43947$32.8M
Ulta Beauty Charitable FoundationBolingbrook$100,00046$58.1M
Great Lakes Region Organizing CommitteeChicago$100,00045$17.4M
Invest for Kids IncChicago$100,00042$6.4M
Leukemia Research FoundationNorthfield$145,34038$7.7M
Edward-Elmhurst HealthcareArlington Heights$183,25037$10.5M
Foundation for Anesthesia EducationSchaumburg$125,00036$12.2M
Illinois Coalition AgainstSpringfield$753,59535$111.7M
Ageguide Northeastern IllinoisLombard$254,81434$106.0M
A Better ChicagoChicago$150,00032$17.5M
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of ChicagoChicago$1,044,76429$852.0M
National Council of State BoardsChicago$201,90629$5.8M
Henry Booth HouseChicago$301,79528$37.9M
The Cleveland Avenue Foundation forChicago$100,00028$15.0M
Western Illinois Area Agency on AgingRock Island$135,20825$33.5M
Howard Brown Health CenterChicago$102,83425$12.8M
Center for Housing and HealthChicago$166,14924$17.8M
First Look for Charity FoundationOakbrook Terrace$102,26423$8.4M
Agesmart Community ResourcesSwansea$134,88323$36.0M
Illinois Science and EnergyGilberts$141,61823$7.7M
Realtors Relief FoundationChicago$144,99722$12.4M
Harvey L Miller Supporting FoundationChicago$100,00022$13.6M
The Mpn Research FoundationChicago$100,00021$4.1M
Hospital Sisters of St Francis Foundation IncSpringfield$147,18821$45.3M
East Central Il Area AgencyBloomington$140,50220$44.5M
Opportunity International IncChicago$127,88220$6.1M
Pulmonary Fibrosis FoundationChicago$100,00020$2.4M
Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Every median grant on this page describes the grants reported, not all of them, so the real typical grant is likely lower than shown. This is also why these figures cannot be compared to the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site.

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