Illinois · Private foundation
Bolhous 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.
- $150k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 16
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $198k
- 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 Bolhous 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 | 9 | $135k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $225k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $375k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $275k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children First Fund the Chicago Public Schools Foundation | $100,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Chicago Innovation Foundation | $90,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Chicago Architecture Foundation | $85,000 | 4 | 0% |
| City Colleges of Chicago Foundation | $70,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Hope Chicago Inc | $65,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Chicago Academy of Sciences | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Youth Guidance | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Illinois Science and Technology Institute | $55,000 | 3 | 4% |
| The Gray Matter Experience Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Project Exploration | $50,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children First Fund the Chicago Public Schools Foundation | $100,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Chicago Innovation Foundation | $90,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Chicago Architecture Foundation | $85,000 | 4 | 0% |
| City Colleges of Chicago Foundation | $70,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Hope Chicago Inc | $65,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Chicago Academy of Sciences | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Youth Guidance | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Illinois Science and Technology Institute | $55,000 | 3 | 4% |
| The Gray Matter Experience Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Project Exploration | $50,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Project Syncere | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Focus Fairies Mentoring | $45,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Ladies of Virtue | $45,000 | 3 | 1% |
| MEAN Girls Empowerment | $35,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Skills for Chicago | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Manufacturing Renaissance Fka Center for Labor and Commun | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| YWCA Metropolitan Chicago | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($85k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bolhous 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.
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How this is measured
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About Bolhous Foundation
- How much does Bolhous Foundation give?
- Bolhous Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $150,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 16 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Bolhous Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (26%), Arts & Culture (18%), Youth Development (17%).
- Who are Bolhous Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Children First Fund the Chicago Public Schools Foundation ($100k), The Chicago Innovation Foundation ($90k), Chicago Architecture Foundation ($85k).
- Does Bolhous Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bolhous 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 Bolhous Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Cme Group Foundation, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc.
- Where is Bolhous Foundation based?
- Bolhous Foundation is based in IL.
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