Illinois · Private foundation
Anixter and Silva Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 64
- Grants FY2024
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 51
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations Anixter and Silva Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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 | 59 | $1.2M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $1.0M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $985k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $1.0M | 10% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $870k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $829k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 43 | $772k | 21% |
| FY2017 | 48 | $908k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $1,229,615 | 8 | 0% |
| Lester and Rosalie Anixter Center | $652,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $383,668 | 8 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $314,490 | 8 | 0% |
| Council for Jewish Elderly | $235,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois Inc | $220,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Israel Cancer Research Fund Inc | $214,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Eisenhower Medical Center | $200,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Childrens Oncology Services Inc | $167,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $155,000 | 8 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Anixter and Silva Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 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: The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jarvis Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Kovler Family Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Maurice & Henry Freund Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Anixter and Silva Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Anixter and Silva Family Foundation
- How much does Anixter and Silva Family Foundation give?
- Anixter and Silva Family Foundation reported 64 grants totaling $1,242,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 51 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Anixter and Silva Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (26%), Philanthropy (20%), Science & Tech (15%).
- Who are Anixter and Silva Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($1.2M), Lester and Rosalie Anixter Center ($653k), Anti-Defamation League ($384k).
- Does Anixter and Silva Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Anixter and Silva 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 Anixter and Silva Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.
- Where is Anixter and Silva Family Foundation based?
- Anixter and Silva Family Foundation is based in IL.
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