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Illinois Grantmaking Charities Making Grants of $25,000 - $100,000

These 112 organizations are based in Illinois and reported a median grant between $25,000 and $100,000 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.

112organizations in this range
$19.4Bgranted between them
19,024funding relationships mapped

A median grant this size is a substantial commitment for most organizations, so a detailed proposal is worth the extra time it takes -- and worth confirming the organization takes unsolicited requests at all before you start writing.

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
The Chicago Community TrustChicago$26,0008,227$7.0B
IffChicago$49,003847$109.9M
The Rotary Foundation of RotaryEvanston$40,000695$106.6M
National Council of Ymcas of the USAChicago$43,078687$150.5M
Northwestern UniversityEvanston$75,000677$559.9M
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncChicago$25,271649$126.7M
Greater Chicago Food DepositoryChicago$56,708552$695.9M
Robert R Mccormick FoundationChicago$50,750483$314.8M
Northwestern Memorial Healthcare GroupChicago$25,925386$146.7M
Muscular Dystrophy AssociationChicago$36,969283$64.2M
Action for Healthy KidsChicago$44,926255$21.3M
ForefrontChicago$50,000245$33.5M
American Medical AssociationChicago$30,000186$30.2M
Eastern Illinois FoodbankUrbana$47,545130$73.8M
Illinois Public Health InstituteChicago$25,035118$7.1M
Loyola University of ChicagoChicago$28,573109$17.8M
P33Chicago$25,000108$3.3M
Rehabilitation Institute of ChicagoChicago$37,196102$32.1M
Coregiving CoChicago$35,062101$12.4M
United Way of Champaign CountySavoy$26,57796$12.0M
People's Action InstituteChicago$88,75091$24.0M
American Epilepsy SocietyChicago$40,00088$7.2M
Chicago Cubs CharitiesChicago$25,00088$8.3M
Illinois Agricultural AssociationBloomington$50,68688$20.6M
National Partnership for New AmericansChicago$25,00086$5.0M
Omega Medical Grants AssociationRosemont$27,50084$7.8M
American Dental AssociationChicago$56,00084$32.7M
Underwriters Laboratories IncEvanston$30,00084$7.7B
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan ChicagoChicago$36,80084$484.4M
Endeavor Health Clinical OperationsArlington Heights$86,40484$338.2M
Heart of Illinois United Way IncPeoria$77,05281$30.9M
Memorial Health System GroupSpringfield$48,11378$63.5M
American Property Casualty Insurance AssociationChicago$25,00076$10.3M
Global Philanthropy PartnershipChicago$47,62773$4.3M
Depaul UniversityChicago$29,00872$11.5M
Easter Seals IncChicago$57,29371$108.7M
American Academy of Sleep MedicineDarien$83,78671$12.3M
Aisc Holdings IncChicago$31,00070$7.8M
Elevate EnergyChicago$48,53268$13.6M
Society of Actuaries Research InstituteChicago$25,00067$6.1M
Illinois Primary Health Care AssociationSpringfield$85,11566$38.0M
The Network Advocating Against DomesticChicago$30,00065$3.5M
Lawyers Trust Fund of IllinoisChicago$90,00064$87.3M
Illinois Equal Justice FoundationChicago$60,17063$49.1M
Neurosurgery Research and Education FoundationRolling Meadows$60,00062$8.9M
Pillars FundChicago$50,00060$8.4M
American Association of NurseRosemont$68,02058$19.8M
The Chicago Bar FoundationChicago$33,25058$33.2M
American Bar EndowmentChicago$25,00057$32.3M
Igrb FoundationChicago$47,50052$7.5M
Bears CareLake Forest$30,00050$10.1M
Agency for Community TransitPontoon Beach$25,39449$3.5M
Center for Orthopaedic TraumaRosemont$25,00044$2.6M
American Hospital AssociationChicago$25,25043$17.4M
Cristo Rey NetworkChicago$78,00042$20.3M
American College of Chest PhysiciansGlenview$30,00042$2.0M
Mount Zion Baptist World MissionsFairfield$28,85042$4.2M
Partnership for CuresChicago$40,00041$2.6M
Saem Research FoundationDes Plaines$25,00041$3.5M
Shure Charitable Trust Created Uw of Sidney N ShureChicago$25,00039$15.5M
Impact Grants ChicagoChicago$49,71439$2.5M
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and RightsChicago$52,72038$23.2M
Acclivus IncChicago$90,73137$6.8M
Masonic Family Health ServicesChicago$25,00036$7.3M
World Business ChicagoChicago$25,00036$2.2M
Orthopaedic Research and EducationRosemont$25,00036$6.1M
The Barack Obama FoundationChicago$50,00036$28.3M
Society of Critical Care MedicineMount Prospect$30,00035$2.1M
Illinois Science and TechnologyChicago$74,90835$2.5M
American Bar Association Fund for Justice and EducationChicago$75,81834$27.6M
Osf Healthcare SystemPeoria$50,00033$28.3M
Chicago Food Policy Action CouncilChicago$46,25032$5.0M
Families of Spinal Muscular AtrophySchaumburg$41,93232$8.0M
American Society for Surgery of the HandChicago$35,00031$7.8M
Illinois Association of Court AppointedChicago$99,37831$20.3M
Public Health Institute of MetropolitanChicago$45,29931$6.1M
Blue Cross Blue Shield AssociationChicago$43,50030$3.2M
Healthcare Foundation ofHighland Park$40,00030$7.5M
Covenant Ministries of BenevolenceChicago$44,25030$3.0M
Agudath Israel of IllinoisChicago$75,00030$4.7M
Pert FoundationChicago$25,00030$327.6M
American Society of AnesthesiologistsSchaumburg$25,00029$11.1M
Pci FoundationChicago$60,00029$1.9M
Illinois Association of Community ActionSpringfield$93,69029$17.1M
Think Big AmericaChicago$62,50029$7.4M
Foundation for Women's CancerChicago$50,00028$2.5M
Wisconsin Chapter of the AmericanChicago$25,00027$816K
Institute of Food TechnologistsChicago$25,00027$1.5M
Leonard and Diane Sherman FamilyChicago$26,80027$5.6M
The Society for the PreservationChampaign$29,06727$2.9M
Illinois Stewardship AllianceSpringfield$26,90027$1.7M
National Safety CouncilItasca$80,38426$3.3M
Sigma Alpha Epsilon FoundationEvanston$65,09726$5.3M
The Carle Foundation HospitalUrbana$50,00026$4.8M
Rate Foundation NfpChicago$56,04126$7.0M
North Shore Exchange NfpGlencoe$30,00026$2.2M
Alianza AmericasChicago$43,32525$4.9M
Council of Medical Specialty SocietiesChicago$50,00025$12.9M
Carole Robertson Center for LearningChicago$63,86824$24.1M
Prevent Child Abuse AmericaChicago$40,00023$2.1M
Pediatric Orthopaedic Society ofOakbrook Terrace$30,00023$1.0M
Faith and Learning International NfpWheaton$25,95022$1.2M
Bls Family FoundationChicago$27,50022$2.4M
Midwest Region Organizing CommitteeSpringfield$58,30122$4.9M
The American Laryngological RhinologicalOak Brook$40,00022$1.9M
Alliance to End Homelessness inHillside$61,01121$5.2M
Kehillah Jewish Education FundSkokie$31,21821$4.8M
HIRE360Chicago$65,69221$3.7M
Society for Vascular Surgery FoundationRosemont$52,50020$2.3M
Precastprestressed Concrete InstituteChicago$50,00020$1.7M
Peoria Hospitals Mobile Medical ServicesPeoria$25,00020$2.9M
Together Chicago IncChicago$25,00020$858K
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.

Other grant sizes in Illinois

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Foundations report their grants differently, so their median grants are not directly comparable to the ones on this page -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so a private foundation's median reflects every grant it made, while the Schedule I figures on this page do not. See foundations in the same range anyway.

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