Illinois · Private foundation
Conant 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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2025
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 95
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $83k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Conant Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $188k 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 | 47 | $1.2M | 19% |
| FY2024 | 50 | $1.2M | 26% |
| FY2023 | 56 | $1.3M | 48% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $1.2M | 25% |
| FY2021 | 76 | $1.3M | 30% |
| FY2020 | 67 | $1.4M | 48% |
| FY2019 | 81 | $1.5M | 20% |
| FY2018 | 95 | $1.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Human Rights Watch Inc | $454,050 | 8 | 0% |
| Chicago Public Media Inc | $450,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Chicago Abortion Fund | $385,000 | 8 | 11% |
| Midwest Access Coalition | $315,000 | 7 | 19% |
| Circesteem Inc | $250,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Writers Theatre Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Sweet Water Foundation Inc | $190,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Alternatives Inc | $175,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Alianza Leadership Institute | $155,000 | 5 | 14% |
| Planned Parenthood of Illinois | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 123 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 107 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Conant Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 108 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Field Foundation of Illinois · Woods Fund of Chicago · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Crossroads Fund Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Chicago Foundation for Women · Circle of Service Foundation · Julian Grace Foundation · Grand Victoria Foundation · The Joyce Foundation
How this is measured
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About Conant Family Foundation
- How much does Conant Family Foundation give?
- Conant Family Foundation reported 48 grants totaling $1,227,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 95 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Conant Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (17%), Health (11%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Conant Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Human Rights Watch Inc ($454k), Chicago Public Media Inc ($450k), Chicago Abortion Fund ($385k).
- Does Conant Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Conant 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 Conant Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Polk Bros Foundation Inc, Field Foundation of Illinois, Woods Fund of Chicago.
- Where is Conant Family Foundation based?
- Conant Family Foundation is based in IL.
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