Delaware · Private foundation
Bindler Family 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.
- $46k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,600
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Bindler Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | $37k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $39k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $60k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $44k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $39k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $47k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $47k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $19k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $64,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Cahn Fellows Programs | $42,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Ravinia Festival Association | $30,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Teachers College Columbia University | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $12,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Intonation Music Workshop | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Cradles to Crayons Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ukrainian Congress Committee of America | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Build Inc | $5,180 | 5 | 0% |
| Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($116k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bindler 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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About Bindler Family Foundation
- How much does Bindler Family Foundation give?
- Bindler Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $45,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bindler Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (35%), Philanthropy (25%), Education (14%).
- Who are Bindler Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($64k), The Cahn Fellows Programs ($43k), Ravinia Festival Association ($30k).
- Does Bindler Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bindler 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 Bindler Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, The Chicago Community Trust, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.
- Where is Bindler Family Foundation based?
- Bindler Family Foundation is based in DE.
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