Illinois · Private foundation
Bomher 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.
- $194k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,468
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 32
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Bomher Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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 | 23 | $194k | 52% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $131k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $133k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $143k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $86k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $77k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notre Dame Parish | $59,521 | 3 | n/a |
| Pillars Community Services | $46,575 | 4 | n/a |
| Big Shoulders Fund | $35,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Special Forces Scholarship Fund | $31,500 | 6 | 3% |
| Robert a Reaumond Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Honor Flight Chicago Corp | $11,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Rush University Medical Center | $9,000 | 2 | 0% |
| All Chicago Making Homelessness History | $7,052 | 1 | n/a |
| The Troy Keip Foundation | $5,500 | 3 | 6% |
| Navy Seal Foundation Inc | $5,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 50 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($457k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bomher 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: The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Bomher Family Foundation
- How much does Bomher Family Foundation give?
- Bomher Family Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $193,546 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Bomher Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Recreation & Sports (21%), Religion (15%).
- Who are Bomher Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Notre Dame Parish ($60k), Pillars Community Services ($47k), Big Shoulders Fund ($36k).
- Does Bomher Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bomher 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 Bomher Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, AbbVie Foundation.
- Where is Bomher Family Foundation based?
- Bomher Family Foundation is based in IL.
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