Illinois · Private foundation
Chicago Educational Research 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.
- $37k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 58%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 31
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $430k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 58% of the organizations Chicago Educational Research Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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 | 34 | $37k | 47% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $47k | 58% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $33k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $38k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $40k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $30k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois Inc | $29,300 | 6 | 0% |
| Madonna Mission | $15,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Chicago Jewish Day School | $8,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Pcd Ks Foundation | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ver International | $7,500 | 2 | 5% |
| Volunteer Eye Resources International | $6,800 | 3 | n/a |
| KLEO Community Family Life Center | $6,200 | 5 | 0% |
| Johnnys Ambassadors Inc | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cancer Wellness Center | $5,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Shalva Inc | $5,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($90k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Chicago Educational Research 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: AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Charles and M R Shapiro Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Chicago Educational Research Foundation with peer funders
About Chicago Educational Research Foundation
- How much does Chicago Educational Research Foundation give?
- Chicago Educational Research Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $37,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Chicago Educational Research Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (23%), Arts & Culture (16%), Health (15%).
- Who are Chicago Educational Research Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois Inc ($29k), Madonna Mission ($15k), Chicago Jewish Day School ($9k).
- Does Chicago Educational Research Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Chicago Educational Research 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 Chicago Educational Research Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Charles and M R Shapiro Foundation Inc.
- Where is Chicago Educational Research Foundation based?
- Chicago Educational Research Foundation is based in IL.
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