Grant Details

In 2024, the foundation introduced new goals. For the Foundation's resources to truly help dismantle racial inequity in Chicago, they will be orienting their grantmaking around three goals:

• Building Community Wealth Across Generations to create pathways out of poverty and toward economic opportunity for residents of Chicago's historically disinvested communities, which are largely Black and Latine, through more equitable housing, education, and income.
• Closing the Life Expectancy Gap to address the root causes of stark disparities in health equity and personal and community safety across different neighborhoods in Chicago.
• Fostering Participatory, Multiracial Democracy to ensure that the diverse voices of our city are heard and can influence the decisions that affect their lives.

New Funding Approaches: Historically, their grantmaking has been largely focused on support for direct services. While they continue to believe attention to immediate interventions that help Chicagoans access resources and services is critical, they will elevate the role of systems change work to a more meaningful part of their grantmaking. That means increased support for work that helps to build community power and influence, strengthens the ecosystem for social change (through research, convenings, and leadership and sector development), and fosters community innovation and new ideas. They also hope to direct resources to community-driven, community-responsive, and community-led approaches.