Indiana Illinois & Iowa Foundation
Countryside, IL · EIN 36-4276271. Reported 61 grants totalling $935,439 to 37 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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. 37 distinct organizations, with 11% 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. 43% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
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 | $103,000 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| HIRE360 | Chicago, IL | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| March of Dimes Inc | Arlington, VA | $72,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Illinois Foundation | Champaign, IL | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative | Chicago, IL | $56,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Candid | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Untapped Potential Project | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chicago Urban League | Chicago, IL | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Chicago City Council Latino Caucus Foundation | Chicago, IL | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Illinois Leg Latino Caucus Found | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Chicago Aldermanic Black Caucus Foundation | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Climate Jobs Illinois Inc | Springfield, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Edgar Fellows | Springfield, IL | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Illinois Institute of Technology | Chicago, IL | $24,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Lawndale Christian Legal Center | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Operating Engineers Nationalcharity Fund | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Equality Illinois | Chicago, IL | $19,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| 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 |
| Pat Quinn Center for Democracy | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 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 |
| Fowler-Bonan Foundation | Harrisburg, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Illinois Executive Mansion Association | Springfield, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Laborers District Council & Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc | Burr Ridge, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Marist High School | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Special Childrens Charities | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Transportation Publishing | South Bend, IN | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Arise Chicago | Chicago, IL | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 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 |
15 of 37 (41%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 26 of 37 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- 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 |
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
81% 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 the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
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 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 6170 Joliet Rd 200, Countryside, IL, 60525.
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