Shriver Center on Poverty Law
Chicago, IL · EIN 36-3151279. Reported 44 grants totalling $1,316,795 to 28 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 Shriver Center on Poverty Law, the IRS classifies it under crime & legal rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE I83L) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 28 distinct organizations, with 28% 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. 35% 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 $13,582. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $44,156; the smallest was $5,236 and the largest $146,250. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Families U S a Foundation Inc | Washington, DC | $375,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights | Chicago, IL | $188,978 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Legal Council for Health Justice | Chicago, IL | $161,364 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Everthrive Illinois | Chicago, IL | $139,647 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Workers Center for Racial Justice | Chicago, IL | $92,614 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Alivio Medical Center Inc | Chicago, IL | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness | Chicago, IL | $34,603 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| AIDS Foundation of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fund for Justice | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | Chicago, IL | $19,603 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Heartland Alliance for Human Needs | Chicago, IL | $19,603 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Citizen Action-Illinois Chapter | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hcp of Illinois Inc | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hope Fair Housing Center | West Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Housing Action Illinois | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Maine Equal Justice Partners Inc | Augusta, ME | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Joliet | Crest Hill, IL | $11,364 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dupage Federation on Human Services Reform | Lombard, IL | $11,364 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Latino Policy Forum | Chicago, IL | $11,364 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Office of Kentucky Legal Services Programs Inc | Lexington, KY | $10,222 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Genesee County Legal Aid Society | Flint, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Small Business Advocacy Council | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Greater Dayton Union Cooperative Initiative Inc | Dayton, OH | $8,333 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Texas Appleseed | Austin, TX | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Illinois Primary Health Care Association | Springfield, IL | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Empire Justice Center | Rochester, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc | Lawrence, KS | $5,236 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
10 of 28 (36%) 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.
- Families USA Foundation Inc
CONTROLLING PROVIDER PRICES AND HEALTH INSURANCE COSTS FOR ACA MARKETPLACE CONSUMERS AND SMALL BUSINESSES - Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
CONSUMER STATE ADVOCACY PROJECT - IL, PROTECTING IMMIGRANT FAMILIES-IL - Everthrive Illinois
CONSUMER STATE ADVOCACY PROJECT - IL, CHILDREN'S HEALTH COVERAGE IL - Legal Council for Health Justice
PROTECTING IMMIGRANT FAMILIES-IL, CHILDREN'S HEALTH COVERAGE IL, PROTECTING & ADVANCING IMMIGRANT ACCESS TO PUBLIC PROGRAMS - Workers Center for Racial Justice
CONSUMER STATE ADVOCACY PROJECT - IL - AIDS Foundation of Chicago
GIVING IL MORE AUTH TO CONTROL HOSP & INS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 of 28 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 | 13 | $331,844 | $19,603 |
| 2022 | 6 | $367,418 | $56,428 |
| 2023 | 17 | $401,033 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 8 | $216,500 | $7,500 |
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
67% 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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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
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 $13,582 -- 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 Shriver Center on Poverty Law'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 8 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: 67 E Madison Street 2000, Chicago, IL, 60603.
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