Illinois · Private foundation
Bryan Cressey and Iliana Sweis Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,400,786
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 23
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Bryan Cressey and Iliana Sweis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 | 14 | $1.9M | 50% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $1.7M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $1.9M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $1.7M | 43% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $1.5M | 19% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $1.4M | 43% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $768k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Episcopal Charities | $205,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Adler Planetarium | $160,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Revive Center for Housing and Healing | $155,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Navy Seal Foundation Inc | $120,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Greenlight Fund Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Lake Forest Academy | $95,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Chicago Institute for Rebt Inc | $86,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Gateway for Cancer Research | $85,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Barrington Childrens Charities | $55,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Marine Corps Heritage Foundation | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bryan Cressey and Iliana Sweis 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 · Butler Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
Compare Bryan Cressey and Iliana Sweis Foundation with peer funders
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About Bryan Cressey and Iliana Sweis Foundation
- How much does Bryan Cressey and Iliana Sweis Foundation give?
- Bryan Cressey and Iliana Sweis Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $1,872,486 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 23 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Bryan Cressey and Iliana Sweis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (72%), Human Services (5%), Social Science (5%).
- Who are Bryan Cressey and Iliana Sweis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Episcopal Charities ($205k), The Adler Planetarium ($160k), Revive Center for Housing and Healing ($155k).
- Does Bryan Cressey and Iliana Sweis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bryan Cressey and Iliana Sweis Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bryan Cressey and Iliana Sweis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Butler Family Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation.
- Where is Bryan Cressey and Iliana Sweis Foundation based?
- Bryan Cressey and Iliana Sweis Foundation is based in IL.
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