Illinois · Private foundation
Custom Cares Charities
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.
- $87k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $36,679
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $150k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Custom Cares Charities funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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 | 32 | $87k | 84% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $31k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $61k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $35k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $72k | 78% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $141k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $44k | 80% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $35k | 50% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Rita of Cascia High School Corporation | $70,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Erie Neighborhood House | $65,500 | 2 | 1% |
| ISSA Charities | $36,679 | 1 | n/a |
| Loyola Academy | $14,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Adog Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| A Safe Haven Foundation | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Our Lady of Perpetual Help | $6,500 | 2 | n/a |
| In Search of a Cure | $5,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Old Irving Park Community Clinic | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rory David Deutsch Foundation | $3,500 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($295k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Custom Cares Charities 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 · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Greater Horizons · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Custom Cares Charities
- How much does Custom Cares Charities give?
- Custom Cares Charities reported 32 grants totaling $86,829 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Custom Cares Charities fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Human Services (17%), Philanthropy (7%).
- Who are Custom Cares Charities's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Rita of Cascia High School Corporation ($71k), Erie Neighborhood House ($66k), ISSA Charities ($37k).
- Does Custom Cares Charities fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Custom Cares Charities 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 Custom Cares Charities?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Custom Cares Charities based?
- Custom Cares Charities is based in IL.
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