Organization
A Better Chicago
See who has funded you, who else those funders support, and which potential new funders your network brings into view.
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Your funders
76 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 Of these, 55 are locally focused, 16 have national reach, and 5 are no longer active.
- Crankstart Foundationone-time$1,850,000
- J S Frank Foundation7 years$1,734,000
- Arie and Ida Crown Memorial4 years$1,480,000
- Finnegan Family Foundation5 years$1,050,000
- Chicago Blackhawks Foundation4 years$1,043,000
Showing 5 of 76. See all 97 funders
21 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.
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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 6,462 funding connections →
39 Human Service Organizations funding peers share at least three of your funders.
- Friends of the Children - ChicagoIL8 shared funders
- Casa Central Social Services CorporationIL7 shared funders
- Thrive Chicago NfpIL7 shared funders
- Christopher HouseIL6 shared funders
- Erie Neighborhood HouseIL6 shared funders
- Sga Youth & Family Services NfpIL6 shared funders
- YWCA Metropolitan ChicagoIL6 shared funders
- Childrens Home & Aid Society of IllinoisIL5 shared funders
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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.
Showing the first 3 strongly connected funders.
- Circle of Service Foundationaccepts unsolicited381 funding peersConnected through 68 of your 76 fundersLatest peer funding 2024
- Lloyd a Fry Foundationaccepts unsolicited291 funding peersConnected through 62 of your 76 fundersLatest peer funding 2024