Illinois · Private foundation
Bayer 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.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2024
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 48
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $19M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Bayer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k 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 | 38 | $1.3M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $1.0M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $915k | 37% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $640k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $364k | 41% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $334k | 51% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $180k | 62% |
| FY2017 | 28 | $174k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Michigan | $599,500 | 7 | 49% |
| Francis W Parker School | $520,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Chicago Public Media Inc | $130,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois Inc | $120,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $105,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chikaming Open Lands | $100,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Commit-2-Change | $76,500 | 8 | 4% |
| The Anti-Cruelty Society | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chicago Sinai Congregation | $69,500 | 6 | n/a |
| March of Dimes Inc | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 90 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bayer Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 78 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: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Kovler Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Bayer Family Foundation
- How much does Bayer Family Foundation give?
- Bayer Family Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $1,347,650 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 48 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Bayer Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (35%), Education (17%), Arts & Culture (16%).
- Who are Bayer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Michigan ($600k), Francis W Parker School ($520k), Chicago Public Media Inc ($130k).
- Does Bayer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bayer 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 Bayer Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Polk Bros Foundation Inc, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is Bayer Family Foundation based?
- Bayer Family Foundation is based in IL.
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