Chad Kruse
Founder & Product Engineer at Grantmakers.io
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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SeniorChad Kruse is a founder and product engineer with 13 years of experience helping organizations identify and build high-impact solutions using emerging technology. As the founder of Grantmakers.io since 2016, he blends hands-on engineering with product strategy to guide philanthropic and nonprofit stakeholders from discovery to delivery. Based in Chicago, he focuses on practical, mission-driven tools and is currently on sabbatical developing open-source projects aimed at strengthening a thriving, open nonprofit sector. Chad’s work favors pragmatic experimentation—validating what’s worth building before scaling it—and he pairs technical execution with an eye for sustainable, community-centered impact.
13 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
642reputation
35kreached
5answers
8questions
Github Skills (100)
vanilla-javascript10
irs10
tailwindcss10
eleventy10
widgets10
newsletter10
algolia9
markdown9
site-generator9
ruby9
instantsearch9
insert9
liquid9
tailwind9
react9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
grantmakers/grantmakers-next
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:200 pushes in 11 months
grantmakers/profiles
Dec 2016 - Dec 2024
Grantmakers.io Profiles - Summary profiles for all US-based foundations who have filed electronic IRS Form 990-PF
Contributions:25 PRs, 527 pushes, 37 branches in 8 years
electronicfoundationsirs
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