Illinois · Private foundation
Arkes 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)
- 118
- Grants FY2024
- 116
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $850,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 93 to 116
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 15
- Total assets, FY2024
- $7.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Arkes Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $129k 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 | 116 | $1.2M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 116 | $910k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 99 | $195k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 115 | $941k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 93 | $716k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 102 | $994k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 104 | $967k | 22% |
| FY2017 | 110 | $1.1M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hhplift | $4,818,271 | 8 | 72% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $238,950 | 5 | 0% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $196,893 | 5 | 0% |
| Beloit College | $142,287 | 8 | 0% |
| Teach for America Inc | $125,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Anshe Emet Synagogue | $111,935 | 8 | n/a |
| A Better Chicago | $65,200 | 8 | 0% |
| Lawrence Hall | $51,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Vocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders | $51,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Highsight | $45,000 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 193 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 72 recipients with no EIN on record ($354k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Arkes Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 161 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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Kovler Family Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · AbbVie Foundation
How this is measured
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About Arkes Family Foundation
- How much does Arkes Family Foundation give?
- Arkes Family Foundation reported 118 grants totaling $1,232,501 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 93 and 116 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Arkes Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Employment (69%), Education (7%), Philanthropy (4%).
- Who are Arkes Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hhplift ($4.8M), Anti-Defamation League ($239k), Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($197k).
- Does Arkes Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Arkes 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 Arkes Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, The Chicago Community Trust, Arie and Ida Crown Memorial.
- Where is Arkes Family Foundation based?
- Arkes Family Foundation is based in IL.
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