Thank you for your generous donation to The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute!


The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute and its educational legacy owe much to generous contributors including individuals, foundations, family funds and corporations around the world. This generous support sustains the Institute’s innovative education programs, provides clinical services through the Treatment Center, offers dynamic continuing education opportunities and sustains public access to its significant physical and digital resources through its McLean Library. Through these activities the Institute manifests its mission to transform the lives of individuals, families and communities using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Empowering Learning

Empowering Healing

Ways to Give

Donate by Check

Make your check payable to Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute and send to:
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute
ATTN: Development Office
8 S Michigan Ave. Suite 700
Chicago, IL 60603

Cash Gifts

Unrestricted gifts provide essential support to the Institute’s operating budget. If you wish to donate to a fund not named here, please contact Development.

  • Online giving is an easy, secure option! Consider covering processing fees to ensure that every penny of your base contribution is being allocated to our work.
  • Please consider using a direct or ACH checks to eliminate bank and credit card processing fees, which will help us save thousands of dollars each year.
  • Large and international gifts may be wired to our bank.  

Recurring Gifts 

Pledge your annual gift up front, but spread out payment semi-annually, quarterly, or monthly.  We will recognize you at the level of your written pledge, including any benefits, from the time of commitment.

  • To make a pledge, please contact Development.
  • Recurring gifts may be made online, via automated bank transfers, or if you qualify through your IRA. 

IRA Disbursements

Donors over 70.5 years in age who have an IRA account may give single or recurring pre-tax gifts directly from their IRA. Please contact your broker for more information.

Donor Advised Funds (DAF)

Many donors use DAFsl to manage their giving. Tax benefits are received when donating to the fund, rather than at the time of the release.

Gifts of Stock and Mutual Funds

Please contact the development office for stock transfer instructions. 

Cryptocurrency

The Institute will not accept any form of cryptocurrency.

The Franz Alexander Society: Planned Gifts

Please contact Development to discuss how to include the Institute in your estate planning.

All contributions made within the guidelines of our gift acceptance policies are welcome and appreciated. The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute is a non-profit 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization and contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowable by the law. EIN 36-1263210