North Carolina · Private foundation
Adele & Willard Gidwitz Family Foundatio
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $278k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $34,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 38
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $376k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Adele & Willard Gidwitz Family Foundatio funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 43 | $251k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $239k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $258k | 3% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $212k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $209k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $151k | 3% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $169k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $143k | 15% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $245,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Granville Education Foundation Inc | $225,000 | 9 | 28% |
| Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc | $127,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Amherst Early Music Inc | $49,026 | 9 | 1% |
| University of Illinois Foundation | $48,066 | 8 | 0% |
| American Friends of the Jewish Community of Beijing Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 3% |
| F D 13 Residency for the Arts | $33,000 | 7 | n/a |
| North Carolina Central University | $32,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($549k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Adele & Willard Gidwitz Family Foundatio supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · Fox Family Foundation Inc · Duke University · Ibm International Foundation · Devonwood Foundation 009606-007 · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Duke Energy Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
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About Adele & Willard Gidwitz Family Foundatio
- How much does Adele & Willard Gidwitz Family Foundatio give?
- Adele & Willard Gidwitz Family Foundatio reported 47 grants totaling $278,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Adele & Willard Gidwitz Family Foundatio fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (27%), Education (22%), Arts & Culture (22%).
- Who are Adele & Willard Gidwitz Family Foundatio's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($245k), Granville Education Foundation Inc ($225k), Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc ($127k).
- Does Adele & Willard Gidwitz Family Foundatio fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Adele & Willard Gidwitz Family Foundatio accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Adele & Willard Gidwitz Family Foundatio?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101, Fox Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Adele & Willard Gidwitz Family Foundatio based?
- Adele & Willard Gidwitz Family Foundatio is based in NC.
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