Illinois · Private foundation
Altman Family 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.
- $80k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Itemized, FY2024
- $57k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $550
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $18,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 33
- FY2020 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $89k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Altman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 20 | $55k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $68k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $48k | 64% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $50k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School | $41,860 | 3 | 0% |
| The Ember Foundation | $28,800 | 2 | 3% |
| University of Chicago | $15,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Writers Theatre Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $3,140 | 3 | 0% |
| Pelotonia | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $1,860 | 3 | 0% |
| Torahub | $1,750 | 2 | n/a |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $1,200 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($109k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Altman Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Altman Family Foundation
- How much does Altman Family Foundation give?
- Altman Family Foundation reported 24 itemized grants totaling $56,870, out of $80,274 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 33 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
- What does Altman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (15%), Education (12%), Human Services (4%).
- Who are Altman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School ($42k), The Ember Foundation ($29k), University of Chicago ($15k).
- Does Altman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Altman Family 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 Altman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, AbbVie Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Altman Family Foundation based?
- Altman Family Foundation is based in IL.
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