Organization
Chicago Defender Charities Inc
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
12 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, 10 are locally focused, and 2 have national reach.
- University of Chicago Medical Center6 years$298,000
- Wayfarer Foundation3 years$150,000
- Service Employees International Union5 years$105,000
- Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundationone-time$25,000
- Carol Oppenheim and Jerome S Lamet Charitable Fundone-time$22,000
Showing 5 of 12. See all 15 funders
3 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 1,205 funding connections →
5 Community Improvement funding peers share at least three of your funders.
- Chicago Cares IncIL3 shared funders
- Inner-City Muslim Action NetworkIL3 shared funders
- Metropolitan Planning CouncilIL3 shared funders
- Southwest Organizing ProjectIL3 shared funders
- Teamwork EnglewoodIL3 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.
- Polk Bros Foundation Incaccepts unsolicited204 funding peersConnected through 11 of your 12 fundersLatest peer funding 2024
- Robert R Mccormick Foundationby invitation128 funding peersConnected through 11 of your 12 fundersLatest peer funding 2024