Grants made by Robert R Mccormick Foundation
Robert R Mccormick Foundation (EIN 36-3689171) reported 255 grants totaling $106.1M in FY2024 on Schedule I of its IRS Form 990 — the 100 largest are listed below. See the full financial profile for revenue, ratings and leadership.
Grant recipients (FY2024) · $106.1M total
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Cantigny Foundation | General operating support | $33,451,760 |
| United Way-mccormick Partnership For Strong Neighborhoods Inc | United way neighborhood network initiative and catalytic investments | $8,246,000 |
| National-louis University | Accelerate u, the mccormick institute for early childhood, the undergraduate college at national louis university and matching gifts | $5,398,000 |
| Enlace Chicago | 21st century schools emergency support, expanded programming for new arrival youth and families in little village, general operating support, new life/enlace violence prevention and intervention collaborative and the little village youth safety network, and restore and expand after school programs in chicago | $4,715,000 |
| Metropolitan Family Services | Capital support for mpowerment house, metropolitan peace initiatives, communities partnering 4 peace (cp4p), youth intervention with highest risk, midway domestic violence services for youth and families, restore and expand after school programs in chicago, general operating support and matching gifts | $3,572,000 |
| Institute For Latino Progress | Capital support for building improvements to increase capacity for nursing programs, carreras en salud (health careers), and program support for expansion of the nursing college | $3,325,000 |
| Teamwork Englewood | Community engagement manager for the community safety coordinating center in englewood and general operating support | $2,720,000 |
| Big Shoulders Fund | Civic education pilot, college access and success program, productive play in pre-k and k expansion, matching gifts and sponsorship | $2,024,208 |
| Xchange Chicago Inc | Capital support for the xchange innovation hub | $2,000,000 |
| University of Chicago Medical Center | South side healthy communities organization | $1,500,000 |
| Northwestern Memorial Healthcare | Challenge grant for marianjoy rehabilitation hospital | $1,500,000 |
| Lewis University | Capital support for renovations to support the little village workforce development initiative and programmatic support of little village workforce development initiative | $1,235,000 |
| Better Government Association Inc | General operating support, illinois solutions partnership and sponsorship | $1,173,000 |
| National Museum of Mexican Art | Arte for all: expanding access to youth programming in little village through the yollocalli fire station center, yollocalli arts reach and sponsorship | $1,155,000 |
| Childrens Home & Aid Society of Illinois | Freidheim center capital project and thriving fathers and families | $1,050,000 |
| Illinois Action For Children | General operating support, matching gifts and sponsorship | $919,310 |
| City Colleges of Chicago Foundation | Education workforce center | $900,000 |
| Latino Policy Forum | General operating support, matching gifts and sponsorship | $815,100 |
| Eg Woode | Capital support for e.g. woode food hub | $800,000 |
| Chicago Scholars Foundation | General operating support | $791,000 |
| Chicago Childrens Museum | Curiosity classrooms | $675,000 |
| United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc | 211 metro chicago helpline, fair chance hiring initiative, garfield park rite to wellness collaborative and sponsorship | $647,500 |
| Northwestern University | For the center for neighborhood engaged research and science (corners), medill metro media lab: teach for chicago and medill illinois news bureau, sponsorship and matching gifts | $639,000 |
| The Bottom Line Inc | Bottom line chicago's college access, success, and blueprint programs | $620,000 |
| Family Focus Legacy | 21st century schools emergency support, family focus fatherhood program, and restore and expand after school programs in chicago | $615,000 |
| Start Early | Illinois policy general operating support and sponsorship | $610,000 |
| Share Our Spare | Dolly parton imagination library and matching gifts | $600,100 |
| New Life Centers of Chicagoland Nfp | Emergency needs at the landing zone (new arrivals), little village youth programming support, general operating support, service days and sponsorship | $587,000 |
| Central States Ser Jobs For Progress Inc | Everyone can code program and reconnection hub in little village | $545,904 |
| Loyola University of Chicago | General operating support for arrupe college and matching gifts | $521,000 |
| One Million Degrees | General operating support | $510,000 |
| Imagine Englewood If Nfp | General operating support and sponsorship | $505,000 |
| Erie Neighborhood House | Erie neighborhood houses little village project, matching gifts and sponsorship | $503,100 |
| Resident Association of Greater Englewood | General operating support | $500,000 |
| Community Educaton Network It Takes A Village Family of Schoo | Itav early childhood pel completion project | $500,000 |
| Mission of Our Lady of Mercy | Education and career resources and community care program, mercy home for boys and girls-learning and development program and sponsorship | $489,000 |
| Juvenile Protective Association | Connect to kids (c2k) | $450,000 |
| Illinois Principals Foundation | Kids implementation | $440,000 |
| Growing Home Inc | Workforce development program and sponsorship | $413,700 |
| Illinois Network of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies | General operating support and service days | $400,500 |
| Male Mogul Initiative In Nfp | Co-llab creative spaces | $400,000 |
| Cara Program | Cara accelerator program (cap) | $400,000 |
| Advance Illinois Nfp | General operating support | $400,000 |
| Grow Greater Englewood Inc | General operating support | $400,000 |
| American National Red Cross | American red cross - service to the armed forces, red cross of illinois disaster relief ($100,000) and disaster response to hurricanes helen and milton ($150,000), sponsorships and matching gifts | $392,970 |
| Ge Chamber Foundation | General operating support | $375,000 |
| College Possible | College possible chicago 2024-25 program expansion | $370,000 |
| Chapin Hall Center For Children | General operating support | $350,000 |
| Braven Incorporated | Braven chicago | $345,000 |
| Off the Street Club | General operating support, save our summer campaign and excel public speaking program, matching gifts and sponsorship | $332,250 |
| Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential For Educational Success | General operating support | $325,000 |
| Beyond the Ball Nfp | Community engagement manager for the community safety coordinating center in little village and general operating support | $320,000 |
| Chicago Community Foundation | The chicago partnership and fund for safe and peaceful communities and service days | $300,500 |
| Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc | The robert r. mccormick foundation and mcsf- "honoring marines by educating their children" | $300,000 |
| Illinois Equal Justice Foundation | Illinois armed forces legal aid network (il-aflan) | $300,000 |
| Reporters Committee For Freedom of the Press | General operating support | $300,000 |
| Intrinsic Schools | General operating support | $262,500 |
| Junior Achievement of Chicago | Ja high school heroes and program support and matching gifts | $255,000 |
| Impactassets Inc | Capital investment for do right services via liftup workers donor advised fund | $250,000 |
| Liftup Enterprises | Credit enhancement for do right services co. | $250,000 |
| The Bloc | General operating support | $250,000 |
| Metropolis Strategies Nfp | Mccormick reentry fellow and the illinois reentry council | $250,000 |
| Breakthrough Urban Ministries Inc | Chicago peace league and violence prevention program, food pantry support and the nettie bailey student achievement program | $247,500 |
| Chicago Parks Foundation | Youth baseball and softball programs to support health and wellness | $242,650 |
| Alternatives Incorporated | Systemic evaluation, enhancement, and institutional training (seeit) program and matching gifts | $225,100 |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | General operating support | $215,000 |
| Imentor Incorporated | Imentor chicago and post-secondary pathways (psp) for south and west side cps high school students | $207,500 |
| Target Area Development Corporation | Public safety/youth programming | $200,000 |
| Chicago Foundation For Women | Englewood women's initiative | $200,000 |
| Allies For Community Business Inc | Neighborhood entrepreneurship lab (nel) | $200,000 |
| The Thresholds | Thresholds mothers project, thresholds veterans project and youth and young adult services | $187,500 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago Inc | Boys & girls clubs of chicago triple play and healthy lifestyles program, violence prevention through boys & girls club sports, recreation and wellness programming and sponsorship | $185,000 |
| Dupage Childrens Museum | Dcm wonder club sustainable scaling initiative | $185,000 |
| Laureus Sport For Good Foundation of America | Sport for good chicago | $175,000 |
| University of Chicago | Consortium on school research - investor council, network for college success and operating support for the university of chicago crime lab | $164,000 |
| Loves Animal Rescue | Matching gifts and service days | $153,500 |
| Depaul University | Multi-faith veterans initiative | $150,000 |
| Lion Pride Mentoring Inc | General operating support | $150,000 |
| Austin Childcare Providers Network | Kindergarten initiative (c2k program) | $150,000 |
| Maafa Redemption Project | General operating support | $150,000 |
| American Overseas Memorial Day Association Foundation | Bastogne war museum, monument and education center commemorating the battle of the bulge | $150,000 |
| Urban Initiatives Inc | Elementary soccer program, general operating support and matching gifts | $135,100 |
| Onegoal | One goal chicago operations and program support for chicago operations | $135,000 |
| Habitat For Humanity Chicago | Veterans build, matching gifts and service days | $128,450 |
| Chicago Commons Association | Pathways for parents | $125,000 |
| Embarc Inc | General operating support | $125,000 |
| After School Matters Inc | Out-of-school time programming | $125,000 |
| Chicago Jesuit Academy | College & career persistence, general operating support, and high school bridge | $120,000 |
| Leo High School | General operating support and sponsorship | $110,000 |
| Boy Scouts of America | General operating support and sponsorship | $110,000 |
| Evans Scholars Foundation | Chicago evans scholars and matching gifts | $106,200 |
| Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union | Expansion of the george washington teacher institute and matching gifts | $102,000 |
| Chicago Hope Academy | General operating support | $100,000 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | For the illinois early childhood dashboard | $100,000 |
| Think Outside Da Block | General operating support | $100,000 |
| Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy | Matching gifts | $100,000 |
| Inner-city Muslim Action Network | Green reentry: holistic workforce development program | $100,000 |
| Asian Human Services of Chicago Inc | 2024 one summer chicago, everyone can code chicago startup to 1000 program | $97,237 |
| Rush University Medical Center | Building blocks: rumc scholars program and general operating support for west side united | $90,000 |
| Youth Guidance | Becoming a man (bam) and working on womanhood (wow) programs | $85,000 |
Grant data comes from Schedule I of Robert R Mccormick Foundation's e-filed Form 990, via CharityIndex. Recipients link to their own profiles where the EIN matches our directory.