Nuestro Futuro Awards $500,000 in 2026 Grantmaking Cycle

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 dollars in grant funding to more than 100 organizations.

This year, Nuestro Futuro awarded $500,000 to the 39 organizations below, continuing its commitment to many longstanding grant partners while also supporting new organizations. Building on $250,000 in rapid response grantmaking at the end of 2025, Nuestro Futuro launched a new pilot mental health portfolio this year. The pilot responds to findings from its 2024 philanthropic landscape analysis, which identified gaps in mental health services and access as a significant opportunity for increased investment in Latine communities.

Early Childhood Education

• 18^th Street Casa de Cultura
• Brightpoint (formerly El Hogar Del Niño)
• Children’s Center of Cicero-Berwyn
• Educare of West DuPage
• Fox Valley United Way
• Friends of the Highwood Library
• Illinois Workers in Action
• Mano a Mano Family Resource Center
• National Museum of Mexican Art
• Teen Parent Connection
• Viewing Our Children as Emerging Leaders (VOCEL)
• Youth Crossroads

Immigrant Services

• Arise Chicago
• Books and Breakfast
• Center for Immigrant Progress
• Centro de Trabajadores Unidos – United Workers’ Center
• Cicero Family Service
• Farmworker & Landscaper Advocacy Project (FLAP)
• Figueroa Wu Family Foundation
• GAP Community Cetner
• Healing to Action
• Immigrant Solidarity DuPage
• Latino Policy Forum
• Latinos Progresando
• North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic
• Immigration Law and Justice of Northern Illinois (formerly Northern Illinois Justice for our Neighbors)
• Northwest Side Community Development Corporation
• Northwest Center
• Palenque LSNA
• Partners for Our Communities
• P.A.S.O. – West Suburban Action Project
• PODER
• Share Our Spare
• Spanish Community Center
• Taller De José
• Youth and Family Center of McHenry County

Mental Health

• Centro Sanar
• Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health
• El Círculo

Nuestro Futuro is working toward a $10 million endowment to ensure it can remain a permanent resource for Chicago’s Latine community and continue supporting organizations like those highlighted above for generations to come. Learn more about Nuestro Futuro’s $10 million endowment goal.