Latinos Progresando
Chicago, IL · EIN 36-4355072. Reported 124 grants totalling $3,220,300 to 52 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 Latinos Progresando, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A70) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 52 distinct organizations, with 34% 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. 66% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $12,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $525,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporation | Chicago, IL | $1,092,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Carole Robertson Center for Learning | Chicago, IL | $159,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Sinai Health System | Chicago, IL | $143,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Taller De Jose | Chicago, IL | $114,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Sones De Mexico Ensemble | Chicago, IL | $105,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Open Center for the Arts | Chicago, IL | $95,750 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Teatro Vista Theatre With a View Inc | Chicago, IL | $95,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chicago Latino Theater Alliance | Chicago, IL | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| One Lawndale Childrens Discovery Center | Chicago, IL | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Center for Information of Elgin | Elgin, IL | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Eighteenth Street Development Corp | Chicago, IL | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Greater Southwest Development Corporation | Chicago, IL | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Illinois Leg Latino Caucus Found | Chicago, IL | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Telpochcalli Community Education Project Inc | Chicago, IL | $55,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ballet Folklorico De Chicago | Chicago, IL | $55,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Illinios Workers in Action | North Chicago, IL | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| New Covenant Community Development | Chicago, IL | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| North Lawndale Community Coordinating Council Inc | Chicago, IL | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Resurrection Project | Chicago, IL | $42,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| 18TH Street CASA De Cultura Nfp | Chicago, IL | $41,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Port Ministries | Chicago, IL | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Human Scale | Chicago, IL | $39,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Resilience Partners Nfp | Chicago, IL | $39,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Alianza Leadership Institute | Chicago, IL | $37,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chicago Veterans | Chicago, IL | $35,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Duo Development | Chicago, IL | $35,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| La CASA Norte | Chicago, IL | $35,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| And Rise Women Inc | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Beyond the Ball Nfp | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Centro Sanar | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Firehouse Dream Inc | Maywood, IL | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Organized Communities Against Deportations | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Latin Women in Action | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Esperanza Health Centers | Chicago, IL | $21,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Erie Neighborhood House | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Little Village Community Foundation Corp | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Onward Neighborhood House | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Un Nuevo Despertar | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Working Bikes | Chicago, IL | $16,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Forefront | Chicago, IL | $16,300 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Gage Park Latinx Council | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Union Impact Center | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Centro De Trabajadores Unidos United Workers Center | Chicago, IL | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Equity Foods Foundation | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mexican Folkloric Dance Company of Chicago Inc | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Paramount Arts Centre Inc | Aurora, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pitch in | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Un Nuevo Despertar a New Awakening Nfp | Cicero, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mazatecutli Foundation | Palatine, IL | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cuerdas Clasicas Inc | Chicago, IL | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Women for Economic Justice | Chicago, IL | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
32 of 52 (62%) 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.
- Carole Robertson Center for Learning
Grant to support ONE Lawndale goals (Capital Costs) from UW Grant - Sinai Health System
Grant to support ONE Lawndale goals (Schwab Renovation) from UW Grant - One Lawndale Children's Discovery Center
Grant to support ONE Lawndale goals (Youth Advisory Board and Exhibit Design) - New Covenant Community Develpment Corporation
Grant to support ONE Lawndale goals (Predevelopment) from UW Grant - North Lawndale Community Coordinating Council Inc
Grant to support ONE Lawndale goals (Design/architect RFP) from UW Grant - Open Center for the Arts
General operating and grant awards from United Way Budget - Program support
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 48 of 52 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 | 6 | $86,300 | $12,650 |
| 2021 | 23 | $412,500 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 34 | $998,000 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 30 | $927,500 | $12,000 |
| 2024 | 31 | $796,000 | $14,500 |
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
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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 $12,000 -- 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 Latinos Progresando's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 2724 W Cermak Road, Chicago, IL, 60608.
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