Illinois · Private foundation
Baskin Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 81
- Grants FY2024
- 59
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $700,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 49 to 59
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $6.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Baskin Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k 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 | 58 | $2.7M | 45% |
| FY2023 | 59 | $2.4M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 58 | $2.3M | 45% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $1.4M | 65% |
| FY2020 | 52 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress | $3,857,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Facing History & Ourselves Inc | $1,616,091 | 5 | 2% |
| The Point Magazine | $374,000 | 5 | 25% |
| Restore Justice Foundation | $353,000 | 5 | 22% |
| Refugeeone | $220,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Chicago Media Project | $185,303 | 4 | 8% |
| Working Credit NFP | $170,000 | 3 | 8% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $163,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Urban Initiatives Inc | $160,000 | 4 | 1% |
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | $151,200 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 98 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Baskin 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: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Circle of Service Foundation · Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · Weinbergnewton Family Foundation · The Kellcie Fund
How this is measured
About Baskin Family Foundation
- How much does Baskin Family Foundation give?
- Baskin Family Foundation reported 81 grants totaling $2,699,907 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 59 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Baskin Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (40%), Arts & Culture (27%), Crime & Legal (7%).
- Who are Baskin Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress ($3.9M), Facing History & Ourselves Inc ($1.6M), The Point Magazine ($374k).
- Does Baskin Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Baskin Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Baskin Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, Polk Bros Foundation Inc, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Baskin Family Foundation based?
- Baskin Family Foundation is based in IL.
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