The Resurrection Project
Chicago, IL · EIN 36-3576073. Reported 56 grants totalling $17.8M to 56 organizations across tax years 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 The Resurrection Project, the IRS classifies it under housing & shelter rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE L20Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 56 distinct organizations, with 7% 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 big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $237,302. Half of what it reported fell between $121,413 and $416,167; the smallest was $7,127 and the largest $1,278,911. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic | Highland Park, IL | $1,278,911 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Beyond Legal Aid | Chicago, IL | $1,057,969 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Childrens Legal Center Inc | Chicago, IL | $987,492 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Immigration Project Inc | Normal, IL | $939,805 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Erie Neighborhood House | Chicago, IL | $925,769 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nijc Nfp | Chicago, IL | $707,731 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chicago Workers Collaborative | Waukegan, IL | $643,459 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Hana Center | Chicago, IL | $582,488 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Help Center | Chicago, IL | $558,123 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Legal Aid Chicago | Chicago, IL | $557,977 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Heartland Alliance for Human Rights and Human Needs | Chicago, IL | $509,737 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project | Chicago, IL | $488,988 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| World Relief Corporation O National | Baltimore, MD | $459,285 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Centro Romero | Chicago, IL | $416,167 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Metropolitan Family Services | Merrionette Park, IL | $411,890 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Indo American Center Inc | Chicago, IL | $395,366 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Refugeeone | Chicago, IL | $328,440 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Institute for Latino Progress | Chicago, IL | $315,357 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $301,223 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of the University of Illinois | Champaign, IL | $292,404 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Migrant and Immigrant Community Action Project | Saint Louis, MO | $287,748 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United African Organization Inc | Chicago, IL | $275,403 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Federacion De Clubes Michoacanos En Illinois | Chicago, IL | $267,790 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Syrian Community Network Inc | Chicago, IL | $258,719 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alianza Hispanoamericana Nfp Inc | West Dundee, IL | $256,689 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Centro De Trabajadores Unidos United Workers Center | Chicago, IL | $250,589 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southwest Organizing Project | Chicago, IL | $248,520 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hispanic American Community Education and Services Inc | Waukegan, IL | $246,026 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chicago Community and Workers Rights | Chicago, IL | $228,579 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Center for Information of Elgin | Elgin, IL | $203,569 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation | Chicago, IL | $201,303 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Western Illinois Dreamers | Macomb, IL | $198,970 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Partners for Our Communities | Palatine, IL | $191,989 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Northern Illinois Justice for Our Neighbors | Chicago, IL | $188,932 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Illinois Legal Aid Online | Chicago, IL | $188,029 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Haitian American Museum of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $180,046 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jewish Child and Family Services | Chicago, IL | $171,240 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| YWCA Northwestern Illinois | Rockford, IL | $167,871 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Binational Institute of Human Development | Chicago, IL | $132,707 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Greater Chicago Legal Clinic Inc | Chicago, IL | $132,700 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ascend Justice | Chicago, IL | $122,408 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Valley Immigrant Advocates | Ottawa, IL | $121,413 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Logan Square Neighborhood Assoc Inc | Chicago, IL | $121,403 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vietnamese Asso of Illinois | Chicago, IL | $115,762 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Akwaabaqc | Moline, IL | $115,624 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Spanish Community Center | Joliet, IL | $113,599 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ethiopian Community Association of Chicago Inc | Chicago, IL | $98,485 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Northwest Side Housing Center | Chicago, IL | $91,539 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Raised the Floor Alliance | Chicago, IL | $90,480 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Middle Eastern Immigrant and Refugee Alliance | Lincolnwood, IL | $80,277 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Enlace Chicago | Chicago, IL | $80,125 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ecker Center for Behavioral Health Inc | Elgin, IL | $79,747 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Youth and Family Center of Mchenry County | Mchenry, IL | $66,533 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Illinois Migrant Council | Crystal Lake, IL | $47,606 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Puentes De Esperanza-Bridges of Hope | Fairview Hts, IL | $17,852 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Warehouse Workers Justice Center | Chicago, IL | $7,127 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
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.
- Highland Park Highwood Legal Aid Clinic
Immigration Legal and Support Services
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 46 of 56 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.
Where its money goes
96% 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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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 $237,302 -- 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 The Resurrection Project's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 56 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1818 South Paulina St, Chicago, IL, 60608.
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