Chicago White Sox Charities Inc
Chicago, IL · EIN 36-3719918. Reported 100 grants totalling $8,418,799 to 62 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Chicago White Sox Charities Inc, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for human services (NTEE P120).
- How spread out its giving is. 62 distinct organizations, with 31% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 48% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $40,250; the smallest was $5,850 and the largest $1,000,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert R Mccormick Foundation | Chicago, IL | $2,647,000 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Stand Up to Cancer | Los Angeles, CA | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Dalmatian Dreams Foundation | Santa Barbara, CA | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rush University Medical Center | Chicago, IL | $536,500 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Northwestern Memorial Healthcare | Chicago, IL | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $227,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Citizenship Education Fund | Chicago, IL | $205,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Push for Excellence Inc | Chicago, IL | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Lymphoma Research Foundation | New York, NY | $138,699 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Special Childrens Charities | Chicago, IL | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Prostate Cancer Foundation | Santa Monica, CA | $87,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Working in the Schools | Chicago, IL | $80,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | Chicago, IL | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Highland Park Community Foundation | Highland Park, IL | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Shore Community Services Inc | Skokie, IL | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chicago Blackhawks Foundation | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Cook County | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Illinois Foundation | Champaign, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gildas Club Chicago | Chicago, IL | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Stonier Scholarship Inc | Towson, MD | $41,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Feeding Children Everywhere Inc | Longwood, FL | $40,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jackie Robinson Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Misericordia Home | Chicago, IL | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Inc | Cooperstown, NY | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| United States Fund for Unicef | New York, NY | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| World Central Kitchen Incorporated | Washington, DC | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Roc Solid Foundation Inc | Chesapeake, VA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Almost Home Chicago Inc | Hometown, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago Inc | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jesse White Foundation Ltd | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lake County Community Foundation | Grayslake, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana | Hines, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St James Parish | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Chicago Medical Center | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Notre Dame Du Lac | Notre Dame, IN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Advocate Charitable Foundation | Downers Grove, IL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Global | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Digs With Dignity Corporation | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St James Church | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation | Downers Grove, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cals All Star Angel Foundation Inc | St Charles, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Champs Male Mentoring Program - Chirise | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Childrens Oncology Services Inc | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Global Foundation for Democracy and Development Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hope Animal Rescues | Godfrey, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Institute for Latino Progress | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Negro Leagues Baseball Museum Inc | Kansas City, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Off the Street Club | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Special Olympics Illinois | Normal, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Andrew Weishar Foundation | Midlothian, IL | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Christian Life Center of the Assemblies of God Inc | Bensalem, PA | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Feeding People Through Plants Nfp | Chicago, IL | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| First Baptist Church of Geneva | Geneva, IL | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pro Labore Dei Inc | Madison, WI | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Connections for Abused Women and Their Children | Chicago, IL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| On Your Feet Foundation | Evanston, IL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chicago Childrens Advocacy Center | Chicago, IL | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jwegstrong Foundation | Naperville, IL | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Minnie Minoso Academy | $5,850 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
16 of 62 (26%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Dalmation Dream Foundation
To establish the Nina Nicolai Dream Endowment - Stand Up to Cancer
To establish the Nina Nicolai Innovation in Collaboration Award - Robert R Mccormick Foundation
General support and Chicago Sports Alliance Fund - White Sox Community Fund
Donation to fund the McCormick Foundation Community Fund - Chicago Sport Alliance Fund
FUNDING TO SUPPORT GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION INITIATIVES IN CHICAGO - Lymphoma Research Foundation
General support representing proceeds from Hendriks shirt campaign
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 53 of 62 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 17 | $1,025,000 | $25,000 |
| 2022 | 24 | $1,306,000 | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 32 | $3,499,949 | $17,500 |
| 2024 | 27 | $2,587,850 | $20,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
69% of its giving went to organizations in Illinois. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $20,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Illinois.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Chicago White Sox Charities Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 27 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 333 West 35TH Street, Chicago, IL, 60616.
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