Education Funding in Illinois
Total granted
$5.7B
Funders
2,058
Grants
20,161
Organizations funded
1,511
Illinois · Grantmakers
Foundations That Fund Education in Illinois
Imperigo has identified 2,058 funders that made 20,161 grants totaling $5.7B to 1,511 education organizations in Illinois, with a median grant of $25K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.
Top Funders — page 1 of 4
$187.9M
$365.2M
$95.4M
$32.6M
$46.1M
$216.0M
$26.4M
$24.7M
$20.3M
$18.7M
$11.0M
$26.5M
$10.7M
$10.6M
$10.6M
$10.3M
19.
Forefront
$9.8M
$17.1M
22.
The Hope School
$9.2M
$9.2M
$23.9M
Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to education work in Illinois, not by dollar totals alone — a foundation that concentrates its giving here is usually a better prospect than a larger one for which this is a rounding error. 21 of the funders counted here are donor-advised fund sponsors, which grant on behalf of individual donors and accept no applications; they are marked and ranked last.
Other Causes Funded in Illinois
About This Data
A grant appears here when a funder reported it on its IRS Form 990 and the recipient organization is classified under the NTEE group covering education work, with an address in Illinois. Grants are counted from the 2025 filing year backward.
Some 990 grant schedules list a recipient by name and address without an EIN, and those grants cannot be matched to a classification — so the totals above represent identifiable education funding in Illinois, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.
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