Chicago corporate foundations

There are 127corporate foundations in the greater Chicagometro area, including the cities of Chicago, Bolingbrook, Des Plaines, Elgin, Evanston, Hoffman Estates, Naperville, Schaumburg, Skokie, and Gary within the states of Illinois and Indiana. Combined, these Chicago metro corporate foundationsemploy 39 people, earn more than $280 million in revenue each year, and have assets of $2 billion.

Job trends for Chicago corporate foundations

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
82
1-10
4
11-25
0
26-100
1
101 to 1,000
0
1,000+
0
Key takeaways for employment stats:

Sizes of corporate foundations in Chicago

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
78
$250k to $1M
18
$1M to $5M
13
$5M to $25M
6
$25M to $100M
1
$100M+
1
Key takeaways for revenue stats:
  • Large organizations like The Joyce Foundation, Abbvie Foundation, Accenture Foundation, Exelon Foundation, and Abbott Fund earn the majority of revenues among nonprofits in Chicago corporate foundations.
  • Organizations with less than $1 million in revenue account for 4.9% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in Chicago corporate foundations with more than $100 million account for 41.1% of nonprofit earnings.

Directory of corporate foundations in Chicago


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Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990, Form 990-EZ, or Form 990-PF with the IRS. We collect and aggregate this information from OCR'd paper taxreturns, XML e-file taxreturns, IRS-provided extract, the Business Master File, and Cause IQ secret sauce for data cleaning, categorization, classification, analytics, etc.
This category corresponds to the "T21: Corporate foundations" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.