Illinois · Private foundation
Cushing 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.
- $8.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 56
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $164M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Cushing Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k 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 | 56 | $8.1M | 57% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $1.1M | 28% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $690k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $466k | 71% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $325k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $128k | 41% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $106k | 71% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $100k | 75% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $1,040,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Shine Global Inc | $720,000 | 6 | 50% |
| Theosophical Society in America | $607,000 | 5 | 9% |
| The Morton Arboretum | $300,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Bridge Communities Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Glen Ellyn Food Pantry | $211,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Dupage Pads Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 1% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $185,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Humanitarian Service Project | $178,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Misericordia Home | $135,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 65 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cushing Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 53 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: The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Dupage Community Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
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About Cushing Family Foundation
- How much does Cushing Family Foundation give?
- Cushing Family Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $8,085,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cushing Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (48%), Food & Nutrition (15%), Religion (6%).
- Who are Cushing Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Greater Chicago Food Depository ($1.0M), Shine Global Inc ($720k), Theosophical Society in America ($607k).
- Does Cushing Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cushing 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 Cushing Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, The Dupage Community Foundation.
- Where is Cushing Family Foundation based?
- Cushing Family Foundation is based in IL.
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