Block Club Chicago is proud to receive a large portion of our annual revenue directly from readers through subscriptions and generous individual donations. We also are thankful for the support of charitable foundations who back our important mission.
Block Club received more than $5,000 in support from the following individuals and organizations:
Civil
The Joyce Foundation
The McCormick Foundation
Chicago Community Trust
Norbert Tatro
The Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation
Arnold Ventures
American Journalism Project
The MacArthur Foundation
The Field Foundation
The Conant Family Foundation
Patrick Corcoran
Driehaus Foundation
Good Chaos
The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Foundation
Carole Oppenheim & Jerome Lamet Charitable Fund
Walder Foundation
Square One Foundation
Irish Woods Foundation
The Knight Foundation
The Lenfest Institute For Journalism
Report For America
Facebook Journalism Project
Koziol Family Foundation
Steans Family Foundation
Ellen Hanson
Asian American Journalists Association
Institute For Nonprofit News
Google News Initiative
Chicago Headline Club Foundation
If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation that will help grow and sustain our neighborhood news operation, please contact Director of Development Maple Walker Lloyd at maple@blockclubchi.org or click here.
Donor Transparency
We are committed to transparency in every aspect of funding our organization.
Accepting financial support does not mean we endorse donors or their products, services or opinions.
We accept gifts, grants and sponsorships from individuals, organizations and foundations to help with our general operations, coverage of specific topics, and special projects. Our news judgments are made independently – not based on or influenced by donors. We do not give supporters the rights to assign, review or edit content.
We will make public all donors who give $5,000 or more per year. As a nonprofit, we will avoid accepting donations from anonymous sources, and we will not accept donations from government entities, political parties, elected officials or candidates actively seeking public office. We will not accept donations from sources who, deemed by our board of directors, present a conflict of interest with our work or compromise our independence.