Funding search · EIN 810585993 · Chicago, IL

The Pert Foundation

Name: The Pert Foundation grants, 2021–2023
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

23
grants reported: $322.1M
total given: 2021–2023
filing years: $30,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2023. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Grant history

All 23 reported grants, largest first.

$318.0M
The Chicago Community Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2023
General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes
$2.1M
The Chicago Community Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2021
Support for Elevated Chicago to promote economic and community development in underinvested communities with transit stations.
$450,000
The Chicago Community Trust · Chicago, IL · 2021
Support general Operations and support for the Unity Fund for basic human needs.
$425,000
Lake County Community Foundation · Grayslake, IL · 2021
In support of capacity building and development.
$300,000
Crossroads Fund · Chicago, IL · 2021
In support of the Chicago Racial Justice Pooled Fund to address historic disinvestment in black communities and also provide support for housing, education, health, and workers' justice in black communities.
$300,000
Tides Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2021
To build sustainability and impactful collective power by deepening collaboration techniques for 23 Chicago-based Muslim-led charitable organizations.
$50,000
Chicago Humanities Festival · Chicago, IL · 2021
General Operating Support
$50,000
Chicago Public Media · Chicago, IL · 2021
General Operating Support
$50,000
Illinois Arts Alliance (Dba Arts Alliance Illinois) · Chicago, IL · 2021
General Operating Support
$50,000
Metropolitan Planning Council · Chicago, IL · 2021
General Operating Support
$40,000
The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind Or Visually Impaired · Chicago, IL · 2021
General Operating Support
$30,000
Audience Architects Nfp · Chicago, IL · 2021
General Operating Support
$25,000
Family Health Partnership Clinic · Crystal Lake, IL · 2021
General Operating Support
$25,000
Illinois Partners for Human Service · Chicago, IL · 2021
General Operating Support
$25,000
Planned Parenthood of Illinois · Chicago, IL · 2021
General Operating Support
$25,000
Trillium Arts · Charlotte, NC · 2021
General Operating Support
$20,000
Blues Kids Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2021
General Operating Support
$20,000
Civic Federation · Chicago, IL · 2021
General Operating Support
$20,000
Connections for the Homeless · Evanston, IL · 2021
General Operating Support
$20,000
Edward G Irvin Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2021
General Operating Support
$20,000
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · Chicago, IL · 2021
In support of the Call Me MISTER Initiative at the UIC College of Education.
$10,000
Fairvote Illinois · Springfield, IL · 2021
General Operating Support
$10,000
Women Employed · Chicago, IL · 2021
General Operating Support

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.