Chicago Scholars Foundation

Your funders

73 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 Of these, 47 are locally focused, 23 have national reach, and 3 are no longer active.

• Best Portion Foundation6 years$2,447,355
• Caerus Foundation Inc6 years$2,433,132
• Robert R Mccormick Foundation4 years$2,285,500
• A Better Chicago5 years$1,275,000
• Crankstart Foundation2 years$1,000,000

Showing 5 of 73. See all 99 funders

26 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 16,962 funding connections →

18 Student Services, Organizations of Students funding peers share at least three of your funders.

• One Million DegreesIL20 shared funders
• Daniel Murphy Scholarship FundIL8 shared funders
• Chicago Debate CommissionIL7 shared funders
• Chicago Freedom SchoolIL7 shared funders
• College Bound OpportunitiesIL6 shared funders
• Link UnlimitedIL6 shared funders
• Cals All Star Angel Foundation IncIL4 shared funders
• Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education GroupIL4 shared funders

See all 18 Student Services, Organizations of Students 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.