CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN DAF sponsor

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2024 · Form 990 · revenue $3.3M · expenses $6.5M · assets $26.0M

EIN

36-3348160

Address

140 S DEARBORN ST STE 400, CHICAGO, IL 60603-5229

Website

WWW.CFW.ORG

NTEE code

T31 Community Foundations (Philanthropy, Voluntarism and Grantmaking Foundations) inferred (by a small language model from the name and 990 text, confidence 0.60; not an IRS classification)

FURP topic

abuse: substance · domestic violence · domestic: workers · girls boys: girls · men: issues · science: research education · shelter: homeless · space: for women · survivor: cancer · violence: gun · violence: prevention · violence: sexual · women: issues (from its 990 text; the topic index)

Exempt type

501(c)(3): charitable, religious, educational, scientific or literary (corporation)

Ruling date

April 1985 (when the IRS recognized its exemption)

IRS status

Exempt (unconditional) (IRS Business Master File) IRS data ↗

Tax-deductible donations

Yes: listed in IRS Publication 78 (public charity) Pub 78 ↗

Foundation status

Public charity supported by the public (170(b)(1)(a)(vi))

Donor-advised funds

Sponsor: its returns say it maintains donor-advised funds (latest tax year 2024). Figures by year

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Mission

FOR FORTY YEARS, CFW HAS BEEN THE ONLY ORGANIZATION IN THE REGION TO TAKE A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO UNDERSTAND AND ADDRESS THE CHALLENGES AND NEEDS WOMEN AND GIRLS FACE THROUGH EVERY STAGE OF THEIR LIVES WITH A FOCUS ON IT'S FOUR IMPACT AREAS. CFW WORKS WITH A COMMUNITY OF SOCIALLY-MINDED INVESTORS WHO SHARE OUR PASSION FOR IMPROVING THE LIVES OF WOMEN, GIRLS, AND GENDER-EXPANSIVE PEOPLE AND ENSURES THAT EVERY DOLLAR THEY GIVE ACHIEVES MAXIMUM IMPACT. WE HOLD OURSELVES AND OUR GRANTEES TO A HIGH STANDARD: CONDUCTING RIGOROUS EVALUATION, CAREFUL MONITORING, AND ACHIEVING COMMUNITY-CENTERED RESULTS. CFW ALSO INVESTS IN THE FUTURE OF ORGANIZATIONS THROUGH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND BUILDING SUSTAINABLE NONPROFIT INFRASTRUCTURE. AS A RESULT, TWO-THIRDS OF NONPROFITS FOR WHICH CFW WAS THE FIRST INSTITUTIONAL FUNDER ARE STILL THRIVING TEN YEARS AFTER RECEIVING THEIR FIRST CFW GRANT.

Each tax year counts once: when a return was amended, only the latest return for that period is used below (superseded returns stay listed, greyed, under Finances).

People paid by the organization

14 people paid across every filing: current people first, then by total pay from this organization. Organizations counts every nonprofit each person appears on.

Officers and directors, no compensation reported

100 people listed on the returns with $0 (or no amount) in every compensation column: current people first. Hours are as filed on the latest return each person appears on.

People by year

Highest-paid independent contractors

Who the money went to

Grants this organization reported paying: Schedule I Part II of the Form 990, or the grants-paid list on the 990-PF. Open a year for every recipient. Recipients link to their own page when the grant names an EIN we have (990-PF grants list no EIN, so those link only on an exact, unique name and state). Grants to individuals are counted; their names are not shown.

Negative amounts are returned or refunded grants; they are listed last and left out of the totals of grants paid.

Who gave

Contributor names are not public for this form type.

Public charities filing Form 990 or 990-EZ report large donors on Schedule B, but the IRS withholds their names and addresses from public copies. Private foundations (990-PF) are different: their contributors are public.

Finances

Newest first. Each filing: its name on one row, its figures on the row beneath. Greyed filings are superseded by a later return for the same period and are left out everywhere else on this page.

Connected to

Organizations that list some of the same people on their returns (officers, directors, key employees on this organization’s latest return), and related organizations it lists on Schedule R.

• YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO Chicago, IL · 1 person in common (Anita Ponder)

Funders of this organization

169 grantors reported grants to this organization, $17,724,036 in all, tax years 2009 to 2025; the 25 largest shown (all 169). Exact: the grantor wrote this organization's EIN. Fuzzy: the grantor wrote only a name (foundations' 990-PF has no EIN field), matched to the same or a near-identical name in the same state; the name as filed is shown. From the latest return for each grantor and year, so amended returns aren't counted twice. CSV

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Where the money went

Every expense line on each return, biggest first: Form 990 Part IX (with its program, management and fundraising columns), 990-EZ Part I, or 990-PF Part I. Event marks lines the organization itself describes as events. “Events” in each summary adds those lines, conferences and meetings, and the direct costs of fundraising events. Unusual is not the same as improper. Many of these patterns have ordinary explanations. Check the filing.