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David and Lucile Packard Foundation United States: Los Altos, California: $6.3 billion 1964 [18] 31 Rockefeller Foundation United States: New York City: $6.3 billion 1913 [35] 32 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation United States: New York City: $6.2 billion 1969 [18] 33 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation United States: Chicago: $6 billion ...
The Chicago Community Trust (the Trust) is the community foundation serving Chicago, suburban Cook County, and the Illinois counties of DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will. Established on May 12, 1915, it is the second largest community foundation in the country as of 2020, with assets of more than $4.5 billion.
The first community foundation was set up in Cleveland in 1914 by Frederick Goff and operates now as The Cleveland Foundation. [3] Others soon followed including the California Community Foundation and the Chicago Community Trust. The first Community Foundation in Canada, The Winnipeg Foundation, was established in Winnipeg in 1921. [4]
The Woods Charitable Fund was incorporated in Nebraska in 1941 by Frank Henry Woods Sr. (1868–1952) and Nelle Cochrane Woods (1870–1950) of Lincoln, Nebraska and their three sons: Thomas Cochrane Woods Sr. (1895–1958) of Lincoln, and Henry Cochrane Woods Sr. (1895–1968) and Frank Henry Woods Jr. (1905–1980) of Chicago, and operated in ...
Chicago is also divided into 77 community areas which were drawn by University of Chicago researchers in the late 1920s. [3] Chicago's community areas are well-defined, generally contain multiple neighborhoods, and depending on the neighborhood, less commonly used by residents. [2] [4]
The Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) is a national community organizing network established in 1940 [1] by Saul Alinsky, Roman Catholic Bishop Bernard James Sheil and businessman and founder of the Chicago Sun-Times Marshall Field III. The IAF partners with religious congregations and civic organizations at the local level to help them build ...
The Civic Federation is a Chicago-based non-partisan research organization focused on governments in the Chicago area and the state of Illinois. The Civic Federation's mission is to help local and state governments reduce their costs and improve public services by "Promoting opportunities to reform local tax structures; guarding against wasteful expenditure of public funds; and serving as a ...
United States historic place Beverly Shores–Century of Progress Architectural District U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. Historic district The Florida Tropical House, one of five houses in the district Interactive map of the district and its houses Location 208, 210, 212, 214, and 215 Lake Front Dr., Beverly Shores, Indiana Coordinates 41°41′3″N 87°0′6″W / 41. ...