Our Partners

A note of gratitude to our community of partners

Our philanthropic community in Chicago and beyond demonstrates inspiring generosity in support of CPS students. Children First Fund remains grateful for your partnership as we meet our mission of providing a quality education to every Chicago student.

Thank you again for your support as we build on our academic progress and work together to create a more equitable and student-centered education system in Chicago.

Our Partners page currently reflects contributions from FY23 through the end of FY24.

Special thanks to Adtalem Global Education for supporting the development of the Children First Fund website.

Thank you to our generous partners for their pandemic response giving.

Principal’s Circle ($1M+)

and an anonymous donor

Dean’s List ($500,000 – $1M)

Educator’s Committee ($100K – $499,999)

ALDI Batavia Division

Amazon

Baxter International, Inc.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bolhous Foundation

Chicago Beyond

Christopher Family Foundation

CME Group Foundation

ComEd – Commonwealth Edison Company

Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation

Google

GCM Grosvenor

IMC Chicago Charitable Foundation

JB & MK Pritzker Family Foundation

The Joyce Foundation

Norfolk Southern

Otho S.A. Sprague Memorial Institute

Robert R. McCormick Foundation

Rose Shure Charitable Trust

Steans Family Foundation

Tullman Family Office

Vivo Foundation

Student Council ($10K – $100K)

Adtalem Global Education

AHR EXPO International Exposition Company

The Allstate Foundation

Michael Alvarez and Family

AMT – The Association for Manufacturing Technology

Thomas Barta

Cabrera Capital

Mary Cahillane

Chicago Bears

Chicago Children’s Museum

Chicago Community Trust

Constellation

Discover Brighter Futures Fund

Richard Dufour

The Fogelson Family Foundation

Friends of Coonley

Gene Haas Foundation

The George M. Van Cleave Family Foundation

Harri Hoffmann Family Foundation

Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation

Illinois Manufacturers’ Association

J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation

The James Dyson Foundation

Latham & Watkins LLP

Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation

Life Time Foundation

Lohengrin Foundation

Lyft

Judy and John McCarter

Maryanne Metz

Motorola Solutions Foundation

Northern Illinois University

Nuveen

Office Depot Inc.

Old National Bank

Power Construction Company, LLC

Prince Charitable Trusts

Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation

Reed Smith LLP

Rush University Medical Center

Salesforce Inc.

Abejide Toure

Viiv Healthcare

Walmart Inc.

Whole Kids Foundation

Janet Winter

In-Kind Contributors ($10K+)

AdoptAClassroom.org

Baby2Baby

Back-2-School America

Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation

Cintas Corporation

Clean Cult

Cradles to Crayons

GCP Foundation

Heart of America Foundation

High School Nation

InspiredConsumer, Inc.

Lefkofsky Family Foundation

Scott and Amy Madden

Office Depot Inc.

Soles4Souls

Synchrony Financial

WeLoveU Foundation

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