Chicago foundations

There are 6,835foundations and grantmaking organizations 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 foundationsemploy 10,667 people, earn more than $10 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $58 billion.

Types of foundations in Chicago

Nonprofit typeNumberRevenues
5,540
$6,095,034,939
480
$3,568,151,724
142
$953,040,853
129
$23,368,552
99
$2,062,981,344
25
$72,238,650
13
$4,995,630
8
$1,566,380
5
$233,381
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Job trends for Chicago foundations

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
4,146
1-10
405
11-25
27
26-100
16
101 to 1,000
7
1,000+
2

Sizes of foundations in Chicago

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
3,735
$250k to $1M
674
$1M to $5M
389
$5M to $25M
152
$25M to $100M
25
$100M+
18
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Directory of foundations in Chicago


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This category corresponds to the "T00: Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Grantmaking Foundations: General" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.