Indiana Illinois & Iowa Foundation
Countryside, IL · EIN 36-4276271. Reported 84 grants totalling $1,227,939 to 51 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Indiana Illinois & Iowa Foundation, the IRS classifies it under employment rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE J40) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 51 distinct organizations, with 9% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 39% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $75,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sweeney Classic | Countryside, IL | $113,000 | 7 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Illinois Foundation | Champaign, IL | $90,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| HIRE360 | Chicago, IL | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| March of Dimes Inc | Arlington, VA | $72,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative | Chicago, IL | $56,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Chicago Urban League | Chicago, IL | $55,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Candid | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Untapped Potential Project | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Edgar Fellows | Springfield, IL | $37,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Chicago City Council Latino Caucus Foundation | Chicago, IL | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Illinois Executive Mansion Association | Springfield, IL | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Illinois Leg Latino Caucus Found | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Equality Illinois | Chicago, IL | $27,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chicago Aldermanic Black Caucus Foundation | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Climate Jobs Illinois Inc | Springfield, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Navy Pier | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Pat Quinn Center for Democracy | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Illinois Institute of Technology | Chicago, IL | $24,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Il Legislative Black Caucus Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Lawndale Christian Legal Center | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Marist High School | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Operating Engineers Nationalcharity Fund | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Special Childrens Charities | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Walsh Construction | Chicago, IL | $16,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Illinois House Democratic Womens Caucus | Downers Grove, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lawndale Christian Legal Center | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Accelerate Indiana Municipalities | Indianapolis, IN | $12,189 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Chicago Police Memorial Foundation | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Chicago Women in Trades | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chicago Working Families Archer Ave | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Christmas in the Wards | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Citizen Action | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Contractors Association of Will & Grundy | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Excellence in Bleu | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Fowler Bonan Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Fowler-Bonan Foundation | Harrisburg, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Irish American Heritage Center | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Laborers District Council & Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc | Burr Ridge, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Related Midwest | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Special Olympics of Illinois | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| The Dupage Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| The Fund for American Studies | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| The Jesse White Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Wrigley View Rooftop | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Transportation Publishing | South Bend, IN | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Arise Chicago | Chicago, IL | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Youthbuild Lake County | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Shoot for a Cure | Burbank, CA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Union Sportsmens Alliance | Spring Hill, TN | $6,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chicago Hope Academy | Chicago, IL | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chicago Jobs With Justice | Chicago, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
19 of 51 (37%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- HIRE360
CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION AND SPONSORSHIP - James M Sweeney Golf Classic
GOLF OUTING SPECIAL OPS SPONSOR - University of Illinois Foundation
PROJECT MIDDLE CLASS RENEWAL - Climate Jobs Illinois Education Fund
CLIMATE JOBS CONTRIBUTION 2022 - Chicago Urban League
SPONSORSHIP FOR GOLDEN FELLOWSHIP DINNER - Chicago City Council Latino Caucus Found
DIAMANTE SPONSORSHIP LEVEL
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 26 of 51 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 7 | $82,000 | $12,000 |
| 2021 | 14 | $263,398 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 13 | $253,500 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 27 | $336,541 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 23 | $292,500 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
83% of its giving went to organizations in Illinois. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Illinois.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Indiana Illinois & Iowa Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 6170 Joliet Rd 200, Countryside, IL, 60525.
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