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Daniel & Chayala Glenner Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$94k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
28
Grants FY2025
23
Organizations funded FY2024
35%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,779
Organizations funded a year
15 to 40
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Daniel & Chayala Glenner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsEducationReligionOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving28$94k25%
FY202423$124k35%
FY202319$116k47%
FY202215$61k60%
FY202116$52k50%
FY202040$43kn/a
71% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$142kReligion$113kEducation$14kRecreation & Sports$11kHealth$8kHuman Services$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kCivil Rights$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Yeshivas Kesser Yonah$10,31040%
Telshe Yeshiva-Chicago Rabbinical College Telshe-Chicago$10,1803n/a
Agudath Israel of Illinois$8,06440%
Camp Nageela Midwest Inc$7,28040%
Congregation Meadowbrook$6,0002n/a
Hatzalah Chicago$4,49840%
Yeshiva Derech Hatorah Inc$3,6103n/a
Mesivta Shaarei Adirim$3,1082n/a
Kollel Ateres Ami$3,0001n/a
Chicago Mikvah Association Inc$1,72020%
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All grantees of Daniel & Chayala Glenner Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Yeshivas Kesser Yonah$10,31040%
Telshe Yeshiva-Chicago Rabbinical College Telshe-Chicago$10,1803n/a
Agudath Israel of Illinois$8,06440%
Camp Nageela Midwest Inc$7,28040%
Congregation Meadowbrook$6,0002n/a
Hatzalah Chicago$4,49840%
Yeshiva Derech Hatorah Inc$3,6103n/a
Mesivta Shaarei Adirim$3,1082n/a
Kollel Ateres Ami$3,0001n/a
Chicago Mikvah Association Inc$1,72020%
Chicago Chesed Fund$1,70820%
Hebrew Theological College$1,2501n/a
Chai Lifeline Inc$1,05430%
Bais Yaakov High School of Chicago$30010%
Kehillah Jewish Education Fund$10010%
Chicago Center for Torah & Chesed Inc$841n/a

Plus 65 recipients with no EIN on record ($428k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Daniel & Chayala Glenner Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYeshivas Kesser Yonah: $10,310 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAgudath Israel of Illinois: $8,064 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Nageela Midwest Inc: $7,280 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHatzalah Chicago: $4,498 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Mikvah Association Inc: $1,720 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Chesed Fund: $1,708 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChai Lifeline Inc: $1,054 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBais Yaakov High School of Chicago: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKehillah Jewish Education Fund: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 9.

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 …Todd a and Raphaela S…Aj & Sl Stern Family …Walder FoundationDennis and Joyce Rube…Alice G Hanson Family…Jewish Communal FundBitton Family Foundat…Kehillah Jewish Educa…Elliott and Ronni Cha…Menachem & Ahuva Shab…Bellows Family Founda…
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL27.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family Foundation · Aj & Sl Stern Family Foundation · Walder Foundation · Dennis and Joyce Ruben Foundation · Alice G Hanson Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Bitton Family Foundation Inc · Kehillah Jewish Education Fund · Elliott and Ronni Charitable Fdn · Menachem & Ahuva Shabat Family Foundation INC · Bellows 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 Daniel & Chayala Glenner Foundation

How much does Daniel & Chayala Glenner Foundation give?
Daniel & Chayala Glenner Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $94,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 40 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Daniel & Chayala Glenner Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (29%), Religion (23%), Education (3%).
Who are Daniel & Chayala Glenner Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Yeshivas Kesser Yonah ($10k), Telshe Yeshiva-Chicago Rabbinical College Telshe-Chicago ($10k), Agudath Israel of Illinois ($8k).
Does Daniel & Chayala Glenner Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Daniel & Chayala Glenner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Daniel & Chayala Glenner Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family Foundation, Aj & Sl Stern Family Foundation.
Where is Daniel & Chayala Glenner Foundation based?
Daniel & Chayala Glenner Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 81 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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