2021 Grant Awards - Grand Victoria Foundation

Economy

Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship

For general operating support

$60,000

12 months

Co-Op Ed Center

For general operating support

$50,000

12 months

Economic Security of Illinois

To support their work advocating for equitable expansion of EITC and direct cash based public policy

$150,000

24 months

Farmworker & Landscape Advocacy Project

For general operating support

$200,000

24 months

Jobs to Move America

To support general operations for the Illinois based work

$150,000

24 months

Latino Union of Chicago

For general operating support

$100,000

24 months

One Body Collaborative

To support the Bridges Out of Poverty Project

$25,000

12 months

Proviso Partners for Health

To support the Economic Justice and Wellness Center

$70,000

12 months

Small Business Majority Foundation Inc

To support general operations of the Illinois work

$65,000

12 months

WePower

To support the East St. Louis Work

$150,000

24 months

Woodstock Institute

For general operating support

$65,000

12 months

Young Invincibles

To support general operations for the Illinois work

$100,000

12 months

Education

Afterschool for Children & Teens Now

To support statewide out-of-school time efforts

$100,000

24 months

Ann & Robert Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

To support the Resilience Education to Advance Community Healing initiative

$60,000

12 months

Children’s Home & Aid

To support the Ahlquist Center for Policy, Pratice, and Innovation and strategic planning activities

$140,000

24 months

Early Childhood Transformation Team/Northern Illinois University Foundation (Fiscal Sponsor)

To support the Early Childhood Equity Impact Manager

$50,000

12 months

East Side Aligned/United Way of Greater St. Louis (Fiscal Sponsor)

To support the work of East Side Aligned

$120,000

24 months

Education Systems Center/Northern Illinois University Foundation (Fiscal Sponsor)

To support the 60 x 25 Network

$750,000

12 months

Equip for Equality

To support the special education rights clinic

$100,000

24 months

Grow Your Own Illinois

For general operating support

$100,000

24 months

Illinois Action for Children

To support the Public Policy and Advocacy department

$120,000

24 months

Link Unlimited

To support the High School Success & College Persistence Program

$120,000

24 months

Logan Square Neighborhood Association

To support the Parent Engagement Institute

$120,000

24 months

Partnership for Resilience

For general operating support

$120,000

24 months

Teach Plus Incorporated

To support Teach Plus Illinois

$120,000

24 months

Elgin

African American Coalition of Kane County

To support Black-led and centered community organizing

$20,000

6 months

Alignment Collaborative for Education

For general operating support

$26,667

8 months

Boys and Girl Club of Elgin

For general operating support

$33,333

8 months

Community Crisis Center

For general operating support

$16,667

8 months

Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Northern Illinois

For general operating support of Elgin based work and operations

$12,500

12 months

Ecker Center for Behavioral Health

For general operating support

$31,250

15 months

Elgin History Museum

For general operating support

$16,667

8 months

Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra

For general operating support

$37,500

15 months

Family Service Association of Greater Elgin Area

For general operating support

$31,250

15 months

Food for Greater Elgin

For general operating support

$20,000

8 months

Greater Elgin Family Care Center

For general operating support

$37,500

15 months

Hamilton Wings

For general operating support

$380,000

24 months

Marklund Children’s Home

For general operating support of Elgin based work and operations

$12,500

12 months

Midwest Academy

To support organizing training for the Elgin community

$7,500

6 months

One Hope United

For general operations of Elgin based center

$37,500

15 months

PADs of Elgin, Inc.

For general operating support

$31,250

15 months

Senior Services Associates, Inc.

For general operating support

$16,667

8 months

Side Street Studio Arts

For general operating support

$20,000

12 months

Youth Leadership Academy

For general operating support

$18,750

15 months

YWCA Elgin

For general operating support

$43,750

15 months

Engagement

Alliance of Illinois Community Foundations

For general operating support

$24,000

12 months

Black Researchers Collective

To support BRC’s work to build collective power utilizing research

$100,000

24 months

Chicago African Americans in Philanthropy/Forefront (Fiscal Sponsor)

To support the Illinois Black Advocacy Initiative

$300,000

24 months

Forefront

For general operating support

$100,000

12 months

Hana Center

For general operating support

$200,000

24 months

Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

For general operating support

$200,000

24 months

Illinois Humanities

For general operating support

$50,000

24 months

Lighthouse Foundation

To support the Black Queer Equity Index Project

$75,000

12 months

Mano a Mano Family Resource Center

To support Project Puentes

$100,000

12 months

Mitchell Museum of the American Indian

For general operating support

$50,000

12 months

Soapbox Productions & Organizing

For general operating support

$40,000

12 months

Environment

The Conservation Foundation

For general operating support

$62,500

12 months

Environmental Law & Policy Center

To support coal ash solutions and protection of Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie

$60,000

12 months

Faith in Place

For general operating support

$60,000

12 months

HeartLands Conservancy

For general operating support

$70,000

12 months

The Land Conservancy of McHenry County

For general operating support

$60,000

12 months

Metropolitan Planning Council

To support MPC’s Water Resources Program

$300,000

12 months

Openlands

For general operating support

$100,000

12 months

Prairie Rivers Network

For general operating support

$110,000

12 months

Natural Land Institute

For general operating support

$55,000

12 months

The Nature Conservancy

To support the StormStore project in Cook County

$195,000

12 months

Sierra Club

To support Sierra Club Illinois Chapter

$75,000

12 months

Special Opportunities

Chicago Community Foundation

For the Jumpstart Equity Fund

$25,000

12 months

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations

Sponsorship of the 2022 Conference in Chicago

$25,000

12 months

Rapid Response Fund

Children’s Home & Aid

To support the organization’s Holiday Campaign in providing direct cash assistance to program participants during the holiday season

$25,000

3 months

University Park Youth Athletic Association

To support the organization in providing clean drinking water to communities in the areas of the Village of University Park and the Village of Dixmoore

$25,000

6 months