Illinois · Private foundation
Arthur & Sally Dordek Charitable 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.
- $21k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $770
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,170
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 38
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $64k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Arthur & Sally Dordek Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $823 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 | 8 | $21k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $22k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $16k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $5k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $12k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $17k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Associated Talmud Torahs of Chicago | $12,836 | 5 | n/a |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $9,800 | 4 | 0% |
| Congregation Ezras Israel | $5,170 | 4 | n/a |
| Ida Crown Jewish Academy Inc | $2,823 | 2 | n/a |
| Hebrew Theological College | $2,115 | 3 | n/a |
| Congregation Kins of West Rogers Park | $1,882 | 4 | n/a |
| Chicago Mezuzah and Mitzvah Campaign | $1,598 | 3 | 0% |
| Kehillah Jewish Education Fund | $1,260 | 3 | 0% |
| Chicago Chesed Fund | $927 | 3 | 0% |
| Chicago Community Kollel Inc | $630 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 26 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Associated Talmud Torahs of Chicago | $12,836 | 5 | n/a |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $9,800 | 4 | 0% |
| Congregation Ezras Israel | $5,170 | 4 | n/a |
| Ida Crown Jewish Academy Inc | $2,823 | 2 | n/a |
| Hebrew Theological College | $2,115 | 3 | n/a |
| Congregation Kins of West Rogers Park | $1,882 | 4 | n/a |
| Chicago Mezuzah and Mitzvah Campaign | $1,598 | 3 | 0% |
| Kehillah Jewish Education Fund | $1,260 | 3 | 0% |
| Chicago Chesed Fund | $927 | 3 | 0% |
| Chicago Community Kollel Inc | $630 | 2 | n/a |
| Religious Zionists of America Mizrachi Hapoel Hamizrachi Inc | $312 | 1 | 0% |
| Htc Group | $221 | 1 | n/a |
| Yeshiva University Womens Organization | $95 | 1 | n/a |
| Hebron Fund Inc | $90 | 1 | 0% |
| American Society for Yad Vashem Inc | $72 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish Sacred Society Inc | $72 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc | $54 | 1 | 0% |
| Chai Lifeline Inc | $50 | 1 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $36 | 1 | 0% |
| Joan Dachs Hachnosas Kallah Inc | $36 | 1 | n/a |
| The Dresher Foundation Inc | $36 | 1 | 0% |
| Bonei Olam Inc | $36 | 1 | 0% |
| Veitzener Kollel | $36 | 1 | n/a |
| Jbi International Inc | $36 | 1 | 0% |
| Peylim Lev Lachim | $36 | 1 | 0% |
| Childrens Village of Jerusalem Inc | $18 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($53k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Arthur & Sally Dordek Charitable 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 · Bitton Family Foundation Inc · The Novick Family Foundation · The Howard Ross Family Foundation · Aj & Sl Stern Family Foundation · Hasson Family Foundation · Noah Wolff Family Foundation Inc · Lev Zahav NFP · Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago · Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Sidney and Lisa Glenner Foundation
How this is measured
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About Arthur & Sally Dordek Charitable Foundation
- How much does Arthur & Sally Dordek Charitable Foundation give?
- Arthur & Sally Dordek Charitable Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $20,783 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 38 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Arthur & Sally Dordek Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (52%), Philanthropy (39%), Education (5%).
- Who are Arthur & Sally Dordek Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Associated Talmud Torahs of Chicago ($13k), Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($10k), Congregation Ezras Israel ($5k).
- Does Arthur & Sally Dordek Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Arthur & Sally Dordek Charitable 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 Arthur & Sally Dordek Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Bitton Family Foundation Inc, The Novick Family Foundation.
- Where is Arthur & Sally Dordek Charitable Foundation based?
- Arthur & Sally Dordek Charitable Foundation is based in IL.
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