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Chicago Nonprofit Formation: The Tale of Four Clusters
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I’ve been analyzing Chicago’s nonprofit formation data — all 4,212 organizations formed across the city’s 56 ZIP codes between 2021 and 2025, drawn directly from the IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File and cross-referenced with U.S. Census demographic data. What the numbers reveal isn’t one Chicago nonprofit ecosystem. It’s four…