Illinois · Grantmakers
Imperigo has identified 1,333 funders that made 18,673 grants totaling $2.7B to 1,534 human services organizations in Illinois, with a median grant of $20K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.
Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to human services 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. 18 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.
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 human services 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 human services funding in Illinois, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.
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