Illinois · Private foundation
Crain-Maling 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)
- 134
- Grants FY2025
- 108
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 74 to 108
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $33M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Crain-Maling Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationInternationalReligionYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 132 | $1.2M | 29% |
| FY2024 | 108 | $1.4M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 98 | $1.5M | 18% |
| FY2022 | 74 | $1.4M | 15% |
| FY2021 | 85 | $1.2M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 108 | $1.3M | n/a |
95% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Religion$2.9MArts & Culture$892kEducation$786kInternational$681kHuman Services$460kHealth$437kYouth Development$152kCivil Rights$150kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Educational Media | $654,800 | 6 | 4% |
| Merkos L Inyounei Chinuch Lubavitch of Indiana Inc | $540,000 | 5 | 21% |
| Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc | $402,100 | 6 | 18% |
| Bais Chana Women International Inc | $307,000 | 4 | 25% |
| University of Chicago | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Binyamin Fund Inc DBA The Heart of Israel | $236,000 | 6 | 15% |
| Window to the World Communications Inc | $200,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $168,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hebrew Theological College | $161,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Congregation Hamerkaz Inc | $152,500 | 6 | 27% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Educational Media | $654,800 | 6 | 4% |
| Merkos L Inyounei Chinuch Lubavitch of Indiana Inc | $540,000 | 5 | 21% |
| Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc | $402,100 | 6 | 18% |
| Bais Chana Women International Inc | $307,000 | 4 | 25% |
| University of Chicago | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Binyamin Fund Inc DBA The Heart of Israel | $236,000 | 6 | 15% |
| Window to the World Communications Inc | $200,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $168,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hebrew Theological College | $161,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Congregation Hamerkaz Inc | $152,500 | 6 | 27% |
| Jewish Youth Foundation Inc | $140,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Avner Institute Inc | $139,000 | 6 | 9% |
| Chamah | $134,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Machne Israel Inc | $128,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema NFP | $125,000 | 5 | 19% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Clarion Project Inc | $115,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Associated Talmud Torahs of Chicago | $115,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Hinda Institute | $110,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Opendor Media Inc | $110,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ida Crown Jewish Academy Inc | $108,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Jewish Pocet | $105,000 | 3 | 23% |
| Menachem Education Foundation Inc | $95,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Lubavitch Mesivta of Chicago | $88,600 | 6 | n/a |
| The Cove School Inc | $80,500 | 3 | 0% |
| M y Keren Hashluchim Inc | $75,000 | 3 | n/a |
| North Shore Torah Center-Komimiyus | $70,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Cheder Lubavitch Hebrew Day School Inc | $65,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Chicago Mezuzah and Mitzvah Campaign | $61,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Beis Midrash of Queens | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Chabad of Champaign-Urbana Nfp | $50,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Washington Institute for Near East Policy | $47,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Yaldei Shluchei Harebbe Special Needs Organization | $46,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Jewish Beginnings Lubavitch Preschool Inc | $41,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Insight Project for Kids | $40,000 | 6 | 11% |
| Marklund Childrens Home | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Illinois Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Israel Emergency Alliance | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lubavitch of Wisconsin Inc | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rofeh Cholim Cancer Society Inc | $28,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Jewish Enrichment Program | $27,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Chicago Loop Synagogue | $26,240 | 3 | n/a |
| Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois Inc | $26,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Friends of or Chaya Inc | $26,000 | 3 | 6% |
| North Shore Senior Center | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Congregation Yeshiva Yad Moishe | $24,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Chabad Jewish Center of Arlington Heights Inc | $23,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Ezrat Israel Inc | $23,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Chabad of Lake Forest Il | $22,900 | 3 | n/a |
| Ten Yad Kallah Gemach Inc | $22,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Lubavitch Girls High School Inc | $21,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Camp Gan Israel Inc | $20,500 | 4 | 25% |
| Colel Chabad | $20,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Chicago Jewish Day School | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Israel Select Charity Fund Inc | $18,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Torah Academy of Buffalo Grove | $18,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Educational Institute Oholei Torah of Brooklyn Inc | $15,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Chabad of Wheeling | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Lubavitch Chabad of Glenview Inc | $15,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Yad Ezra V'Shulamit | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $14,700 | 5 | 0% |
| Yttl Lubavitcher Yeshiva | $14,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Chabad of Cluj-Napoca Romania | $14,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Aliya International Student Exchange Program | $13,000 | 4 | 4% |
| American Friends of Ohel Bas Zion Inc | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Darchai Menachem Inc | $12,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Torah Community Fund Inc | $11,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Chabad Terror Victims Project Inc | $11,500 | 4 | 3% |
| Bais Aharon Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Illumident Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chicago Center for Torah & Chesed Inc | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Chabad Lubavitch of Greensboro Inc | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Faith and Learning International NFP | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lev Chabad Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Yad Yisroel | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of Mishpacha Orphanage Odessa | $9,000 | 2 | 1% |
| J-Life Outreach Inc | $9,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Arf Dba Animal Rescue Foundation | $9,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Jewish Heritage Institute of Chicagoland Inc | $8,800 | 2 | n/a |
| Chabad of Glencoe | $8,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Lubavitch Chabad of Northbrook Inc | $8,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Akiba-Schechter Jewish Day School | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| International Lone Soldiers INC | $7,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Israel Food Distribution Inc Co Mr Avi Schoemann | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Orphans of the Storm | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Humane World for Animals Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Good People Fund Inc | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Paws Chicago | $5,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Connected Online Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Chabad of Ningbo Inc | $5,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Collective Kindness Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Geder Avos Jewish Heritage Group Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| R a V Rabinical Academy of Venice | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chabad Lubavitch of Waukesha Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chabad on Campus International Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northlight Theatre Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chai Lifeline Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jerusalem University College | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bnos Menachem Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mikvah Association of Buffalo Grove | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ohr Yisroel of Bergen County Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Camp Gan Israel Northeast Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stanford Eisenberg Knoxville Jewishday School | $4,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Skokie Valley Agudath Jacob Synagogue | $3,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Global Jewish Assistance & Relief Network | $3,000 | 2 | n/a |
| United Lubavitcher Yeshivoth Inc | $3,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Project Refuah Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 5% |
| Chabad's Children of Chernobyl | $2,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Misericordia Home | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Chabad of Hebron Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Ohr Menachem Jewish Center Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Central Fund of Israel | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Israel Next Generation INC | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| A Chassidisher Derher INC | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Illinois State University Foundation | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chabad of Mobile | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Paralyzed Veterans of America | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Friends of the Rambam Medical Center | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chabad of Lake Oswego | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Zichron Shmuel Inc | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Oholei Yosef Yitzchok Lubavitch Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| International Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Stuart I Raskas Friendship Circle Illinois NFP | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chabad Lubavitch of Flathead Valley | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| St Josephs Indian School | $1,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Chabad Lubavitch of the Quad Cities | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chabad of Union County | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chasdei Avrohom Eliezer Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ckids Gan Israel Florida Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Trilogy Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Chabad Education Network - Israel | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chicago Rabbinical Council | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Continuum Theater Richards | $1,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Second City Canine Rescue | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Brush Hour for Teens Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rabbinical Organization - Chabad Lubavitch Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Yashar L'Chayal Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kollel Torah Mitzion Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Yad Henna Sara Inc Dba Aishel | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chabad East Lakeview Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chabad of Alameda | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Corrie Ten Boom Fellowship | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Congregation Yehuda Moshe | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New Synagogue of Palm Beach Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chabad of Hyde Park | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dr Chaim Cember Shaarei Chinuch Day School | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chabad Lubavitch of Montana | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ezrat Achim for Special Children Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends of Tiferes Yisroel | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Council on Foundations Inc | $499 | 1 | 0% |
| Cato Institute | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Hatch Development Chicago Nfp | $50 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 61 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Crain-Maling Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 88 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 88.
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.
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL49.8× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Communal Fund · Nash Charity Foundation Inc · Rebbe's Partnership Foundation · The Ojc Fund · Saul Schottenstein Foundation C · Walder Foundation · Keren Hachomesh Inc · Lets Make It Happen Ny Inc · Kolel Torah Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family Foundation
How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
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About Crain-Maling Foundation
- How much does Crain-Maling Foundation give?
- Crain-Maling Foundation reported 134 grants totaling $1,224,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 74 and 108 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Crain-Maling Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (41%), Arts & Culture (13%), Education (11%).
- Who are Crain-Maling Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Jewish Educational Media ($655k), Merkos L Inyounei Chinuch Lubavitch of Indiana Inc ($540k), Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc ($402k).
- Does Crain-Maling Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Crain-Maling 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 Crain-Maling Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Jewish Communal Fund, Nash Charity Foundation Inc.
- Where is Crain-Maling Foundation based?
- Crain-Maling Foundation is based in IL.
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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