Whether you donate to an existing endowment or create your own, be assured that your passion is our purpose.
Support for charitable activities that benefit the people and places of northern Illinois. Over $1.4M is distributed each year through the Community Grants Program alone!
90+ Unique Scholarships, nearly $300K in awards, just ONE Application! Application open December 1 - February 1.
Announcing the 2022 CFNIL Scholarship Recipients
The 2022 CFNIL Scholarship awards have been announced! 180 awards worth over $370,000 to local students. Learn more about the 2022 CFNIL Scholars.
In Youth We Trust Announces Spring 2022 Youth Grant Recipients
The In Youth We Trust Council announces the recipients of its 2022 Spring Youth Grant cycle. $19,500 awarded to seven projects, all led by and benefiting youth in northern Illinois!
Support Our Sister City
Responding to the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine by supporting the needs of the people of Brovary, Ukraine, sister city to Rockford.
“We’re focused on endowment because we’re long term thinkers. Some of the seeds we plant are not going to come up for eight years, so it was not a struggle for us to imagine that we should start planning now for what the needs might be in ten or twenty years.” -- Bernie Buchholz, Friends of Nachusa Grasslands, which established an Agency Endowment Fund with CFNIL in 2014