How much does Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation give?

Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation reported 78 grants totaling $1,095,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 72 and 80 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (30%), Health (19%), Human Services (18%).

Who are Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: South Suburban Pads ($113k), Deborah's Place ($85k), Shriver Center on Poverty Law ($75k).

Does Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Where is Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation based?

Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation is based in IL.

Foundation Dossiers

Illinois · Private foundation

Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 78
Grants FY2025: 77
Organizations funded FY2024: 16%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $20,000
Organizations funded a year: 72 to 80; FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $25M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEducationCommunity ImprovementReligionOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	78	$1.1M	8%
FY2024	77	$1.1M	16%
FY2023	72	$1.0M	24%
FY2022	77	$1.0M	61%
FY2021	80	$1.0M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$2.0MHealth$1.2MHuman Services$1.2MYouth Development$205kReligion$154kCrime & Legal$135kCommunity Improvement$130kCivil Rights$126kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
South Suburban Pads	$112,500	5	1%
Deborah's Place	$85,000	5	0%
Shriver Center on Poverty Law	$75,000	5	0%
Refugeeone	$70,000	4	0%
Law Center for Better Housing	$66,250	4	0%
The Harbour Inc	$60,300	4	1%
Ignite	$60,000	4	0%
Turning Point Inc	$60,000	4	1%
Bridge Communities Inc	$60,000	4	0%
Chicago Children's Advocacy Center	$60,000	4	0%

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All grantees of Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
South Suburban Pads	$112,500	5	1%
Deborah's Place	$85,000	5	0%
Shriver Center on Poverty Law	$75,000	5	0%
Refugeeone	$70,000	4	0%
Law Center for Better Housing	$66,250	4	0%
The Harbour Inc	$60,300	4	1%
Ignite	$60,000	4	0%
Turning Point Inc	$60,000	4	1%
Bridge Communities Inc	$60,000	4	0%
Chicago Children's Advocacy Center	$60,000	4	0%
Casa Central Social Services Corporation	$60,000	4	0%
Dupage Pads Inc	$60,000	4	0%
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness	$60,000	4	0%
Chinese American Service League Inc	$60,000	4	0%
New Moms Inc	$60,000	4	0%
Home of the Sparrow Inc	$60,000	4	0%
Alexian Brothers Bonaventure House	$60,000	4	0%
Old Irving Park Community Clinic	$60,000	4	2%
Beds Plus Inc	$60,000	4	0%
The Lake County Haven	$60,000	4	1%
Sisterhouse	$55,000	4	3%
Connections for the Homeless Inc	$55,000	3	0%
Mutual Ground Inc	$55,000	4	0%
Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center	$55,000	4	1%
Crisis Center for South Suburbia	$52,500	4	1%
Pads to Hope Dba-Journeys the Road Home	$51,000	4	1%
Infant Welfare Society of Chicago	$50,000	4	0%
The Center of Concern	$50,000	4	1%
Alternatives Inc	$50,000	4	0%
Mercy Housing Lakefront	$50,000	4	0%
Wings Program Inc	$45,000	3	0%
Sarah's Circle	$45,000	3	0%
Howard Brown Health Center	$45,000	3	0%
YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore	$45,000	3	0%
Southside Center of Hope	$45,000	3	5%
La Casa Norte	$45,000	3	0%
Cool Ministries	$45,000	3	1%
Respond Now	$45,000	3	1%
Primo Center for Women & Children	$45,000	3	0%
Health and Medicine Policy Research Group	$45,000	3	1%
Suburban Primary Health Care Council D/B/A Access to Care	$45,000	3	1%
Sarah's Inn	$45,000	3	0%
Youth Crossroads Inc	$45,000	3	1%
The Night Ministry	$45,000	3	0%
Enlace Chicago	$45,000	3	0%
Family Rescue Inc	$45,000	3	0%
Connections for Abused Women and Their Children	$40,000	2	0%
Lazarus House	$40,000	3	1%
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Joliet	$40,000	4	0%
Inspiration Corporation	$40,000	4	0%
People's Resource Center	$40,000	4	0%
Housing Opportunities and Maintenance for the Elderly Inc	$40,000	4	0%
Matthew House Inc	$36,250	2	2%
Resilience	$35,000	2	1%
Dupage Health Coalition	$34,000	3	0%
Between Friends	$30,000	2	1%
PADS Lake County Inc	$30,000	2	0%
Of Color Inc	$30,000	2	1%
Lincoln Park Community Services	$30,000	2	1%
The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence	$30,000	2	1%
Juvenile Protective Association	$30,000	3	0%
Renaissance Social Services Inc	$30,000	2	0%
Association House of Chicago	$30,000	2	0%
Youth Outreach Services Inc	$30,000	2	0%
Apna Ghar Inc	$30,000	2	0%
Family Health Partnership Clinic	$30,000	2	1%
St Leonard's Ministries	$30,000	2	0%
Children's Research Triangle	$30,000	3	0%
Chicago Workers' Collaborative NFP	$30,000	2	1%
Healthy Schools Campaign	$30,000	3	0%
Gads Hill Center	$27,500	3	0%
Nami of Dupage County Illinois	$25,000	2	1%
Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center NFP	$25,000	2	1%
The Bridge Youth and Family Services	$20,000	2	1%
National Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped	$20,000	2	n/a
Metropolitan Family Services	$20,000	2	0%
United Cerebral Palsy Seguin of Greater Chicago	$20,000	2	0%
Build Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Healthcare Alternative Systems Inc	$20,000	2	0%
The Port Ministries	$20,000	2	2%
Kan-Win	$20,000	1	1%
Heartland Alliance International Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Chicago Coalition to Save Our Mental Health Centers	$20,000	2	1%
Center on Halsted	$20,000	1	0%
All Chicago Making Homelessness History	$20,000	1	0%
Public Action to Deliver Shelter Inc D/B/A Hesed House	$20,000	2	0%
Family Service & Mental Health Center of Cicero	$15,000	1	1%
Mobile Care Foundation	$15,000	1	0%
Tri City Health Partnership	$15,000	1	2%
Crossroads Fund Inc	$15,000	1	0%
The Renaissance Collaborative Inc	$15,000	1	1%
North Side Housing and Supportive Services	$15,000	1	0%
Latin United Community Housing Assn	$15,000	1	1%
Brave Space Alliance	$15,000	1	0%
Proactive Community Services	$15,000	1	1%
Housing Forward	$15,000	1	0%
Chicago Community Foundation	$15,000	1	n/a
Housing Opportunities for Women Inc	$15,000	1	0%
The Boulevard of Chicago Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Will Grundy Medical Clinic	$15,000	1	1%
Pads of Elgin Inc	$10,000	1	1%
The Community House	$10,000	1	0%
Organizing Neighborhoods For Equality Northside	$10,000	1	0%
Project Vision Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Youth & Opportunity United Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Chicago Lights	$10,000	1	0%
Loaves & Fishes Community Services	$10,000	1	0%
Independence Center Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Antioch Area Healthcare Accessibility Alliance Inc	$10,000	1	3%
YWCA Lake County	$10,000	1	1%
Syrian Community Network	$10,000	1	1%
Become Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Illinois Association of Free & Charitable Clinics	$10,000	1	0%
Zion Benton Children's Service	$10,000	1	9%
Kids Above All Illinois	$7,500	1	0%
Grantmakers in Health	$3,250	1	0%
Forefront	$2,150	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 115.

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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.

United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL115.4× affinity60 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · All Chicago Making Homelessness History · Chicago Foundation for Women · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Michael Reese Health Trust · Helen V Brach Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation

How much does Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation give?: Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation reported 78 grants totaling $1,095,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 72 and 80 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (30%), Health (19%), Human Services (18%).
Who are Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: South Suburban Pads ($113k), Deborah's Place ($85k), Shriver Center on Poverty Law ($75k).
Does Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities, Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation.
Where is Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation based?: Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation is based in IL.