Chicago History Museum

Your funders

120 funders have made program grants to you since 2016. The 5 shown below are the most recent; each row shows how many years they funded you and the total amount recorded. Of these, 84 are locally focused, 26 have national reach, and 10 are no longer active.

• Tawani Charitable Distribution Fund7 years$672,500
• John R Halligan Charitable Fund7 years$595,000
• The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust 26203412003 years$441,667
• Minow Family Foundation5 years$395,000
• Polk Bros Foundation Inc5 years$153,300

Showing 5 of 120. See all 135 funders

15 others are DAFs (donor-advised funds), matching-gift programs or similar pass-throughs — intermediaries carrying someone else's choice, so no step below uses them.

Your funding peers

Funding peers are organizations that share one or more of your funders. Start with organizations in a related field that share at least three of them. Explore all 6,409 funding connections →

21 Museum, Museum Activities funding peers share at least three of your funders.

• Chicago Historical SocietyIL22 shared funders
• Adler PlanetariumIL18 shared funders
• Chicago Childrens MuseumIL12 shared funders
• Kohl Childrens Museum of Greater Chicago IncIL12 shared funders
• Chicago Academy of SciencesIL9 shared funders
• The Richard H Driehaus MuseumIL9 shared funders
• Glessner House MuseumIL7 shared funders
• Renaissance Society at the University of ChicagoIL7 shared funders

See all 21 Museum, Museum Activities peers →

Potential new funders

Potential new funders have not funded you since 2016, but they fund organizations in your funding network. They are ranked by the strength of their connections through your funders and funding peers.

In historical data, funders connected this way later funded an organization like yours about twenty times as often as a random eligible funder, and still only about one in fifty times. This is a historical pattern, not a prediction.