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David & Lisette Eisendrath 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.

$26k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
21%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$6,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 17
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$288k
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 David & Lisette Eisendrath 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; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionHealthPublic BenefitOther
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 arriving10$26k20%
FY202414$39k21%
FY202313$27k31%
FY202213$27k15%
FY202113$34k15%
FY202012$30k33%
FY201913$27k8%
FY201817$35k12%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$89kHealth$66kFood & Nutrition$57kYouth Development$33kArts & Culture$16kHousing & Shelter$13kEducation$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($61k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget David & Lisette Eisendrath Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreater Chicago Food Depository: $33,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYouth on Their Own: $25,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMujeres Latinas En Accion: $18,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMothers Trust Foundation: $18,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Youth Network Inc: $18,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHoward Brown Health Center: $18,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lake County Haven: $11,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Child and Family Services: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Illinois Food Bank: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Evolved Network Nfp: $9,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe People's Music School: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWauconda-Island Lake Food Pantry Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLake County Crisis Center: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOak Leyden Developmental Services Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJuvenile Protective Association: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBernie's Book Bank: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLa Rabida Children's Hospital: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKids Off the Block Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGrateful Girls Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHouse of the Good Shepherd: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetImpacting Veterans Lives Inc dba Midwest Veterans Closet: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCool Ministries: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPrairie Crossing Charter School: $500 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 25.

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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.

AbbVie FoundationIL20× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Lake County Inc · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Helen V Brach Foundation · Trustmark Foundation · Lloyd a Fry 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 David & Lisette Eisendrath Foundation

How much does David & Lisette Eisendrath Foundation give?
David & Lisette Eisendrath Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $26,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does David & Lisette Eisendrath Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (32%), Health (24%), Food & Nutrition (20%).
Who are David & Lisette Eisendrath Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Greater Chicago Food Depository ($34k), Youth on Their Own ($25k), Mujeres Latinas En Accion ($19k).
Does David & Lisette Eisendrath Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does David & Lisette Eisendrath 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 David & Lisette Eisendrath Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities, Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group.
Where is David & Lisette Eisendrath Foundation based?
David & Lisette Eisendrath 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 37 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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