The Service Club of Chicago
Chicago, IL · EIN 36-6055873. Reported 40 grants totalling $516,491 to 40 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 Service Club of Chicago, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S80Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 40 distinct organizations, with 8% 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 $11,323. Half of what it reported fell between $8,219 and $15,588; the smallest was $260 and the largest $40,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago Childrens Advocacy Center | Chicago, IL | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Restoring the Path | Chicago, IL | $39,215 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Helping Hand Center | Countryside, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Holy Trinity High School | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Maryville Academy | Des Plaines, IL | $21,358 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| One Family Illinois | Chicago, IL | $21,193 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Avenues to Independence | Park Ridge, IL | $20,337 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hope Ignites Chicago | Wilmette, IL | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Circle Urban Ministries | Chicago, IL | $16,838 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Peoples Music School Inc | Chicago, IL | $15,588 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| A Safe Haven Foundation | Chicago, IL | $15,502 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| A Red Orchid Theatre | Chicago, IL | $15,014 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lutheran Social Services of Illinois | Des Plaines, IL | $14,672 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Willow House | Bannockburn, IL | $13,477 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lawrence Hall | Chicago, IL | $13,470 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brave Space Alliance | Chicago, IL | $12,843 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Deborahs Place | Chicago, IL | $12,450 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Aim Art in Motion | Chicago, IL | $11,776 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| About Face Theatre Collective | Chicago, IL | $11,679 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Apparel Industry Foundation Inc | Chicago, IL | $11,657 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Ark | Chicago, IL | $10,990 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Options for Youth | Chicago, IL | $10,287 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chicago Parks Foundation | Chicago, IL | $10,013 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sharing Connections Inc | Downers Grove, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Jackson Chance Foundation | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago | Chicago, IL | $9,986 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Council for Jewish Elderly | Chicago, IL | $9,930 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Saint Agatha Dream Builders Association Nfp | Hillside, IL | $9,584 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sharing Notes | Chicago, IL | $8,566 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $8,219 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Northwestern University Settlement | Chicago, IL | $7,632 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Franciscan Outreach | Chicago, IL | $6,200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wings Program Inc | Palatine, IL | $6,128 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Old Irving Park Community Clinic | Chicago, IL | $5,557 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gildas Club Chicago | Chicago, IL | $4,868 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Depaul College Prep | Chicago, IL | $4,547 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Remy Bumppo Theatre Company | Chicago, IL | $3,498 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Classical Kids Music Education Nfp | Chicago, IL | $3,323 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kaufherr Rescource Center | Chicago, IL | $2,834 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Imd Guest House Foundation | Chicago, IL | $260 | 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.
- Chicago Children's Advocacy Center
GRANT TO SUPPORT ORGANIZATION AND $40,000 TOWARD A NEW ADAPTIVE VAN - Restoring the Path
GRANT TO SUPPORT ORGANIZATION - Helping Hand Center
GRANT TO SUPPORT ORGANIZATION AND $25,000 TOWARDS A NEW VAN - Holy Trinity High School
GRANT TO SUPPORT ORGANIZATION AND $25,000 TOWARDS A NEW BUS - Maryville Academy
GRANT TO SUPPORT ORGANIZATION AND VR HEADSETS, TACTILE CUBES, CHARGING CART AND SUBSCRIPTION - Avenues to Independence
GRANT TO SUPPORT ORGANIZATION AND MINIVAN
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 33 of 40 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
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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 $11,323 -- 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 Service Club of Chicago'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 40 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: 233 E Erie Street, Chicago, IL, 60611.
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