Our Focus

Invest For Kids seeks to foster a rich ecosystem of organizations that lift up Chicago’s most in-need youth from early childhood through college and career.

• We provide grants to Chicago area nonprofits that serve youth in low-income circumstances.
• We target smaller organizations with budgets between $1-5 million where we believe our grants can have the highest impact.
• With an average grant of $200,000 per grantee, Invest For Kids’ awards play a significant role in helping the most promising organizations achieve their goals.
• Our focus areas include education, mentoring, enrichment, college access and career readiness, health & physical fitness, and social services.

Selection Process

• Our diligence efforts are thorough and focused on gaining a comprehensive understanding of each applicant. We look for quality programming, strong leadership, a dedicated board, and measurable results.
• Our process entails initial screening of applications to narrow the applicant pool. We then conduct thorough interviews with the organizations’ leadership and, on occasion, site visits, followed by reference and fact checking to ultimately determine our annual recipients.
• 2025 Invest for Kids Grantees will be announced in August 2025 and grant checks will be distributed in December 2025.