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Top 25 Community nonprofits based in Chicago, United States

RevenueBase identified 312 community nonprofits headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 37,191 professional contacts across them, including 2,000 with verified work emails. Chicago is the largest hub.

This list covers community nonprofits headquartered in Chicago, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

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312Companies
37,191Contacts tracked
2,000Verified emails
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The 25 largest community nonprofits based in Chicago, United States

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 312 community nonprofits based in Chicago, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to community nonprofits: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Partial evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026n/a31,282 contacts →

Partial evidence

“For 175 years, the Y has been a place where meaningful connections help build stronger communities.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
2Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200226 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Our mission is to prevent the following societal problems: suicide, precarity and poverty, school truancy, and bullying, in addition to lack literacy and numeracy, college…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
3Strong evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200216 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Grounded in equity and deep sector expertise, IFF champions nonprofits to shape more equitable and vibrant communities through community-centered lending, development, and real…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
4Partial evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,000205 contacts →

Partial evidence

“For more than 45 years, the Chinese American Service League’s (CASL) comprehensive programs have connected families and individuals in the Chicago Chinese community and beyond…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
5Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500190 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Association House of Chicago is a non-profit organization offering human-services programs that address both immediate and personal development needs.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
6Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500186 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“SGA Youth & Family Services, founded in 1911, provides free, comprehensive services to the most challenged and underserved neighborhoods in Illinois’ Cook, Lake, and Will Counties.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
7Partial evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200163 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Erie Neighborhood House is a social services nonprofit in Chicago, and we offer the most comprehensive support immigrant and low-income families need to thrive.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
8Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200145 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Mission statement: TRP builds trusting relationships to educate and propel individuals, immigrants, and families to achieve their social and economic aspirations, stable homes…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
9Partial evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200142 contacts →

Partial evidence

“As our region's community foundation, The Chicago Community Trust has been here for all Chicagoans for over years.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
10Partial evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200137 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Our Mission Since 1898, Gads Hill Center creates opportunities for children and their families to build a better life through education, access to resources and community…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
11Partial evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200134 contacts →

Partial evidence

“One Million Degrees empowers low-income, highly motivated community college students to succeed in school, in work, and in life.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
12Partial evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500131 contacts →

Partial evidence

“El Valor is a non-profit community-based organization founded in 1973 by the late Guadalupe A.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
13Partial evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200129 contacts →

Partial evidence

“United Way of Metro Chicago brings together business, government, philanthropic, individual, and community leaders to deliver funding and resources while amplifying the expertise…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
14Partial evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-50120 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Mikva Challenge develops youth to be informed, empowered, and active citizens and community leaders.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
15Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200108 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Breakthrough partners with people to build connections, develop skills, and open doors of opportunity.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
16Partial evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-50108 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Project: VISION’s mission is to help youth of Chicago’s Chinatown, Bridgeport, McKinley Park, and surrounding communities achieve their full potentials by providing them with…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
17Partial evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-50108 contacts →

Partial evidence

“OUR MISSION Founded in 2015, City Bureau is a nonprofit civic journalism lab based in Woodlawn on the South Side of Chicago.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
18Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500102 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Enlace Chicago convenes, organizes, and builds the capacity of Little Village stakeholders to confront systemic inequities and barriers to economic and social access.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
19Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200100 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“La Casa Norte’s mission is to serve youth and families confronting homelessness.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
20Strong evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200100 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Urban Initiatives is a nonprofit organization that empowers Chicago’s youth to become agents of community change through academic success, healthy living, and leadership…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
21Partial evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20084 contacts →

Partial evidence

“The Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) is a community organization that fosters health, wellness and healing in the inner-city by organizing for social change, cultivating…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
22Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-50083 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Since 1919, Union League Boys & Girls Clubs have opened doors of opportunity and prepared young people for a great future.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
23Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20082 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“New Life Centers of Chicagoland is a company based out of 2657 S Lawndale, Chicago, Illinois, United States.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
24Partial evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20075 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation is committed to the redevelopment of Chicago’s north side communities for the benefit of and control by the low and moderate-income families…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
25Partial evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20070 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Brighton Park Neighborhood Council is an intergenerational community-based organization dedicated to equity and racial justice.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026

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Community nonprofits based in Chicago, United States at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026
5.4%Verified-email coverage
119.2Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
100.0%Largest-city concentration · Chicago
Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
189
11-50
74
51-200
34
201-500
11
501-1,000
2
10001+
2

Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Chicago, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 312 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among community nonprofits, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “community nonprofits”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names community nonprofits), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among community nonprofits, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Chicago are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 2,000 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Community nonprofits by metro in the United States

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names community nonprofits, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many community nonprofits are there based in Chicago, United States?

RevenueBase identified 312 community nonprofits headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Ymca Of The USA, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most community nonprofits?

Chicago leads with 312 headquartered companies, followed by New York (306) and Los Angeles (214).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 2,000 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 312 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.