Illinois · Private foundation
Bruce C Abrams 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.
- $222k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
51% of Bruce C Abrams Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 10 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Bruce C Abrams Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $222k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 15
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Bruce C Abrams Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 12 | $197k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $268k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $228k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $172k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $304k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $194k | 8% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $191k | 58% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $116k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Active Minds Inc | $323,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Strongminds Inc | $240,000 | 8 | 1% |
| The Jed Foundation | $206,222 | 6 | 1% |
| Podium Society Inc | $175,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Population Services International | $110,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Indego Africa Project | $105,522 | 8 | 4% |
| NAMI National | $90,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Mishkan Chicago | $77,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Project Heal Help to Eat Accept & Live | $75,479 | 3 | 3% |
| Nest Inc | $59,075 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($129k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bruce C Abrams Family Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Bruce C Abrams Family Foundation
- How much does Bruce C Abrams Family Foundation give?
- Bruce C Abrams Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $222,218 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Bruce C Abrams Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (55%), International (15%), Philanthropy (13%).
- Who are Bruce C Abrams Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Active Minds Inc ($323k), Strongminds Inc ($240k), The Jed Foundation ($206k).
- Does Bruce C Abrams Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bruce C Abrams 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 Bruce C Abrams Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Bruce C Abrams Family Foundation based?
- Bruce C Abrams Family Foundation is based in IL.
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