How much does Aldridge Gives Foundation give?

Aldridge Gives Foundation reported 74 grants totaling $748,758 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 52 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.

What does Aldridge Gives Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (45%), Human Services (17%), Employment (11%).

Who are Aldridge Gives Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Mdrc ($150k), Breakthrough T1d ($143k), Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation ($75k).

Does Aldridge Gives Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 92% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Aldridge Gives Foundation 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 Aldridge Gives Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, The Chicago Community Trust, Baxter International Foundation.

Where is Aldridge Gives Foundation based?

Aldridge Gives Foundation is based in IL.

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Illinois · Private foundation

Aldridge Gives Foundation

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.

$749k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 74
Grants FY2025: 52
Organizations funded FY2024: 92%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $1,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $142,500
Organizations funded a year: 24 to 52; FY2023 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 18
Total assets, FY2025: $9k
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 92% of the organizations Aldridge Gives Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 74% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	73	$717k	67%
FY2024	52	$568k	92%
FY2023	24	$117k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Health$688kHuman Services$263kEmployment$170kEducation$80kPhilanthropy$77kFood & Nutrition$64kHousing & Shelter$53kCommunity Improvement$49kOther$0

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, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Mdrc	$150,000	2	0%
Breakthrough T1d	$142,500	1	0%
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation	$75,000	1	n/a
Blessings in a Backpack Inc	$60,678	3	0%
Beavers Charitable Trust	$50,000	1	1%
Ace Mentor Program of America Inc	$50,000	2	1%
Movember Foundation	$31,142	2	0%
Special Children's Charities	$26,815	1	n/a
The Oscar Mike Foundation	$22,000	2	1%
United Suicide Survivors International Inc	$20,000	2	2%

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All grantees of Aldridge Gives Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Mdrc	$150,000	2	0%
Breakthrough T1d	$142,500	1	0%
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation	$75,000	1	n/a
Blessings in a Backpack Inc	$60,678	3	0%
Beavers Charitable Trust	$50,000	1	1%
Ace Mentor Program of America Inc	$50,000	2	1%
Movember Foundation	$31,142	2	0%
Special Children's Charities	$26,815	1	n/a
The Oscar Mike Foundation	$22,000	2	1%
United Suicide Survivors International Inc	$20,000	2	2%
National Academy of Construction	$15,000	3	0%
Habitat for Humanity Chicago	$13,500	2	0%
Little City Foundation	$12,000	2	0%
Habitat for Humanity Metro Maryland Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Chicago Women in Trades	$10,000	2	0%
The Chicago Academy of Sciences	$10,000	1	0%
Openlands	$8,000	1	n/a
Rochelle Little League Inc	$8,000	1	8%
Habitat for Humanity Orange County NC Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Curesearch for Children's Cancer	$5,000	1	n/a
You Run This Town Foundation	$5,000	1	3%
Youthbuild Lake County Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Homes for Our Troops Inc	$5,000	2	0%
El Valor Corporation	$5,000	1	0%
Perspectives Charter Schools	$5,000	1	0%
Connections for Abused Women and Their Children	$4,110	1	0%
Lila Foundation	$4,000	3	6%
United Way of Lake County Inc	$3,300	1	0%
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention	$3,000	1	0%
Fisher House Foundation Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Hopeful Ways	$2,500	1	10%
The Commit Foundation	$2,500	1	0%
Gigis Playhouse Inc	$2,500	1	n/a
Disabled American Veterans	$2,500	1	0%
Roaring Fork Conservancy	$2,500	1	n/a
Quad County Urban League Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Hair & Hope	$2,000	2	1%
Mid-Ohio Foodbank	$2,000	2	0%
One for the Kids	$1,500	1	1%
Primera Foundation	$1,500	1	6%
Field Station Cooperative Incorporated	$1,500	2	0%
Unmatched Athlete Corporation	$1,500	1	n/a
Chicago White Sox Charities Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Our Shining Stars Foundation	$1,000	1	n/a
Kaysville Robotics Association	$1,000	1	n/a
Marquette University	$1,000	1	0%
Big John Kares	$1,000	1	1%
Lake County Stallions Inc	$1,000	1	n/a
St Joseph Catholic Church	$1,000	1	n/a
Don'T Ever Give Up Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Ready Set Ride Therapeutic Recreation Facility	$1,000	1	n/a
Heart of Alabama Food Bank Inc	$1,000	1	0%
House of Ruth	$1,000	1	0%
Ride for Hope	$1,000	1	2%
IBEW Local 134 Helping Hand Charitable Trust	$1,000	1	n/a
Lightning Youth Athletics Inc	$1,000	2	0%
Lake County Crisis Center	$690	1	0%
Fontana Unified	$500	1	n/a
Sallyfest Foundation	$500	1	n/a
Catholic Bishop of Chicago	$500	1	n/a
Friends of Wildcat Baseball	$500	1	n/a
Libertyville Little League	$500	1	0%
The Lake County Haven	$500	1	0%
Seven Point Inc	$500	1	0%
Lake Shore Youth Baseball Inc	$500	1	0%
Gambrills Athletic Club Incorporated	$500	1	n/a
Project Fire Buddies Inc	$500	1	n/a
Chicago Police Marine Corps League	$500	1	0%
Lakeland Predators Wrestling Club	$500	1	1%
Foundation for Special Education District of Lake County	$500	1	0%
Hampshire Youth Football & Cheerleading	$500	1	0%
Vb Home Now Inc	$500	1	0%
Sault Tribe Indian Community	$500	1	n/a
Jett Foundation Inc	$500	1	0%
Firehawks Baseball Academy	$500	1	n/a
Midwest Young Artists	$500	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($577k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Aldridge Gives Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 56.

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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.

United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL25.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Baxter International Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Trustmark Foundation · Usg Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Allstate Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Aldridge Family Foundation Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Aldridge Gives Foundation

How much does Aldridge Gives Foundation give?: Aldridge Gives Foundation reported 74 grants totaling $748,758 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 52 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
What does Aldridge Gives Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (45%), Human Services (17%), Employment (11%).
Who are Aldridge Gives Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Mdrc ($150k), Breakthrough T1d ($143k), Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation ($75k).
Does Aldridge Gives Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 92% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Aldridge Gives Foundation 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 Aldridge Gives Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, The Chicago Community Trust, Baxter International Foundation.
Where is Aldridge Gives Foundation based?: Aldridge Gives Foundation is based in IL.