Nuestro Futuro Awards $250,000 in 2025 End-of-Year Rapid Response Grantmaking

Nuestro Futuro, an initiative of The Chicago Community Trust, elevates Latine philanthropy to support Chicago-area organizations and programs aimed at improving the quality of life for the Latine community. Since its founding in 2003, Nuestro Futuro has distributed over $5 million in grant funding.

At the end of 2025, recognizing the urgent needs created by increased federal immigration enforcement tactics, Nuestro Futuro released rapid response funds to support organizations providing assistance to those most impacted.

The following 10 organizations received a total of $250,000 in unrestricted general operating grants from Nuestro Futuro at the end of 2025:

• Center for Immigrant Progress
• Gage Park Latinx Council
• Hispanic American Community Education and Services (HACES)
• Immigrant Solidarity DuPage
• Increase the Peace
• Northern Illinois Justice for our Neighbors
• Organized Communities Against Deportation (OCAD)
• PASO – West Suburban Action Project
• Spanish Community Center
• Youth and Family Center of McHenry County

The Trust is a community foundation that is dedicated to ensuring opportunity and prosperity are within reach for everyone in our region. As a charitable community, we know that many of our communities have been historically under-resourced, including by philanthropy. Nuestro Futuro is a group of donors who seek opportunities to address those historic gaps, which will help strengthen the entire Chicago region. When our neighbors do better, we all do better.