Grants and funding in Illinois

15,575 foundations reported granting into Illinois on their most recent IRS filings: 67,900 itemized grants worth $7.6B between them. On top of that, 35 live grant programs and 111 contract opportunities are specific to Illinois, alongside 3,344 nationwide programs also open here.

foundations granting into the state

15,575

of 129,981 grantmaking foundations on file

in itemized grants into the state

$7.6B

across 67,900 grants on IRS filings

live grants specific to Illinois

35

of 3,984 live grants tracked nationwide

community lenders serving the state

54

of 483 CDFIs on file

Who gives the most into Illinois

The five foundations reporting the largest itemized grant dollars into Illinois on their most recent filings. Size and openness are different things: the giants here are mostly endowments that choose their own recipients, which is why the list worth working from is the 15,575 above filtered to funders that accept applications.

Who the Illinois-specific grants are for

Of the 35 live grant programs specific to Illinois, here is who the announcements name. 24 more are open to any organization type and counted separately, never twice.

Wherever you sit, nonprofits, cities and towns, small businesses and every other reader get their own page saying what Quillify does and does not do for them.

The lenders almost nobody checks

54 community development lenders serve Illinois: below-market debt that takes no ownership, for organizations a bank would make wait. Among them: Community Reinvestment Fund, Inc., NDN Fund, Inc., Community Impact Loan Fund, Local Enterprise Assistance Fund, Accion Opportunity Fund. Quillify tracks all 483 nationwide alongside the grants, because the right answer to a funding gap is sometimes a loan you can actually get.