Illinois · Private foundation
Best Walter & Edith Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $308k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 44
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Best Walter & Edith Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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 | 39 | $308k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $266k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $270k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $299k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $297k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $273k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 44 | $281k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 40 | $280k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwest Community Hospital | $155,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Misericordia Home | $115,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago | $85,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Casa Kane County | $85,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago | $80,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Edward Foundation | $75,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest | $57,350 | 8 | 1% |
| Rehabilitation Institute Inc | $50,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Family Shelter Service Inc | $50,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Spectrios Institute for Low Vision | $44,760 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 66 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($509k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Best Walter & Edith 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: The Dupage Community Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The a Montgomery Ward Foundation · The Bersted Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · The Chicago Community Trust · WP & HB White Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Carl R Hendrickson Family Fdn · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group
How this is measured
About Best Walter & Edith Foundation
- How much does Best Walter & Edith Foundation give?
- Best Walter & Edith Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $308,260 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Best Walter & Edith Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (42%), Human Services (32%), Arts & Culture (5%).
- Who are Best Walter & Edith Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Northwest Community Hospital ($155k), Misericordia Home ($115k), Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ($85k).
- Does Best Walter & Edith Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Best Walter & Edith Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Best Walter & Edith Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Dupage Community Foundation, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, The a Montgomery Ward Foundation.
- Where is Best Walter & Edith Foundation based?
- Best Walter & Edith Foundation is based in IL.
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