A structured record of 67,287 nonprofit organizations registered across Illinois — from Chicago, Aurora, Rockford, and Naperville to every county in between. Named contacts, direct phone numbers, emails where on file, revenue figures, employee counts, and full addresses. Compiled from IRS filings and state charity registrations.
Each of the 67,287 Illinois records includes the same 21 columns as the national file — organization name, full address, named contact, job title, direct contact details where on file, revenue and employee figures, NAICS classification, founding year, and geo-coordinates.
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The Illinois portion of the NonProfitLists.com dataset contains 67,287 nonprofit organization records — every IL-registered 501(c) we have been able to cross-verify against IRS filings and state charity registrations. The set spans charities, private foundations, educational institutions, religious bodies, healthcare nonprofits, arts and cultural organizations, social service agencies, environmental groups, and advocacy organizations across Chicago, Aurora, Rockford, and Naperville and every smaller community between them.
Because the data is delivered as one national CSV covering all 50 states, Illinois is not sold as a separate file. The $379 purchase includes every state. If your work is Illinois-specific, filtering to IL records in Excel or Google Sheets takes about ten seconds — and you retain the full national file for whenever a project expands beyond state lines.
Each of the 67,287 Illinois rows carries the same 21 columns as every other row in the dataset: organization's full legal name, street address, city, IL state code, ZIP, named contact person with their job title, direct email (where on file), phone number, fax, toll-free number, website URL, total and site-level revenue, total and on-site employee counts, NAICS code, year founded, title classification code, and latitude/longitude coordinates. The file is UTF-8 CSV and opens in Excel, Google Sheets, LibreOffice, Apple Numbers, or any CRM that accepts CSV import.
Illinois records are built on the same foundation as the national dataset: IRS Exempt Organization Business Master File entries; Illinois charity registration records filed with the state Attorney General's office (where applicable); Illinois Secretary of State business registry filings; and publicly listed organizational profiles. Every record traces to an official public source. We do not scrape social media, we do not generate synthetic contacts, and we do not include third-party data that isn't licensed for resale.
Grant writers and fundraising consultants based in Illinois or serving Illinois-registered clients use the file to build targeted prospect lists of foundations and operating nonprofits. Software vendors — donor CRMs, fundraising platforms, grant management tools, nonprofit accounting software — use it to reach Executive Directors and Development Officers at organizations that fit their ICP. Researchers at Illinois universities use the NAICS, revenue, and founding-year fields for sector analysis. Journalists covering the Illinois nonprofit landscape use it to source named contacts at specific organizations. And specialized providers — D&O insurance brokers, nonprofit attorneys, fiduciaries — use it to identify decision-makers in their territory.
Coverage rates for contact fields are disclosed exactly as found. Across the dataset, approximately 72 percent of records carry a phone number, 54 percent carry a website, 40 percent carry a fax, and 30 percent carry a direct email address. Illinois's coverage distribution tracks closely with the national figures. Public records don't include full contact details for every organization, and we don't pretend they do. For bulk outreach, we recommend running the file through an email validation service like NeverBounce or ZeroBounce before sending — standard practice for any bulk B2B data.
With 67,287 organizations, Illinois is the fifth-largest nonprofit record set of any U.S. state in this dataset — roughly 4.1% of all 1,653,289 records nationwide, and about 3.1× the median state. It rounds out the five largest state record sets in the file.
Illinois nonprofit activity is heavily concentrated in the Chicago metropolitan area — Cook County and the surrounding collar counties including Aurora, Naperville, and Joliet — which accounts for most of the state's organizations. Downstate centers such as Rockford, Peoria, and the Springfield capital region add a steady base of community, health, and social-service nonprofits.
Illinois regulates charities through the Attorney General's Charitable Trust Bureau under two statutes: the Solicitation for Charity Act and the Charitable Trust Act. Most organizations that solicit charitable contributions in Illinois must register before soliciting, using Form CO-1 with a $15 fee, and then file the annual AG990-IL report.
Government bodies, schools, and hospitals are generally exempt, and religious organizations can file the CO-3 exemption form rather than registering annually. Trustees holding charitable assets above a low statutory threshold must register as well, and professional fundraisers face additional disclosure requirements.
This is general background for context, not legal advice, and charitable-solicitation rules change. Confirm current requirements directly with the Illinois Attorney General's Charitable Trust Bureau before fundraising in Illinois.
This dataset includes 67,287 Illinois nonprofit records compiled from IRS Exempt Organization filings and state charity registrations — the fifth-largest set of any U.S. state in the file, about 4.1% of the 1,653,289 records nationwide.
Generally yes. Under the Solicitation for Charity Act, most charities soliciting contributions in Illinois must register with the Attorney General's Charitable Trust Bureau before fundraising, though government bodies, schools, hospitals, and religious organizations have exemptions.