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2 foundations that funded “Chicago Community Trust”

  1. Community foundation · Chicago, IL

    The Chicago Community Trust

    Invitation only · Gives through donors' accounts: donors choose, you can't apply

    29 Tennessee grants totaling $32.5 million · typical grant $15,000 to $342,704 (tax year 2024)

    55% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  2. Public charity · Chicago, IL

    Elks National Foundation Inc.

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    27 Tennessee grants totaling $363,820 · typical grant $9,000 to $10,000 (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Community investments program; State charitable grant

Source: each funder's latest e-filed IRS return. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which lists the grants they paid and how to apply. Community foundations, United Ways and other public charities file Form 990, and we use its Schedule I (grants over $5,000). We include every funder, wherever it is based, whose latest return lists grants to Tennessee groups. Corporate and community-foundation grant rounds are in the grant search.