Illinois · Private foundation
Denise and Gerald Fitzgerald 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.
- $47k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 63%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $515
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 37
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 63% of the organizations Denise and Gerald Fitzgerald Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 20 | $46k | 55% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $19k | 63% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $13k | 70% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $67k | 81% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $15k | 78% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $8k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union League Boys and Girls Clubs | $31,651 | 4 | 0% |
| Fordham University | $10,075 | 2 | 0% |
| Neighborhood Health Clinic Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $5,800 | 3 | 0% |
| Loyola University of Chicago | $5,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Healthnetwork Foundation Fka Health Net Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund | $3,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Shelter Inc | $3,267 | 3 | 0% |
| St Theresa Catholic Church | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Florence | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 79 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($52k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Denise and Gerald Fitzgerald Family Foundation 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 · The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Edmond and Alice Opler Foundation · Full Circle Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Denise and Gerald Fitzgerald Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Denise and Gerald Fitzgerald Family Foundation
- How much does Denise and Gerald Fitzgerald Family Foundation give?
- Denise and Gerald Fitzgerald Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $46,589 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Denise and Gerald Fitzgerald Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Youth Development (21%), Health (19%).
- Who are Denise and Gerald Fitzgerald Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Union League Boys and Girls Clubs ($32k), Fordham University ($10k), Neighborhood Health Clinic Inc ($10k).
- Does Denise and Gerald Fitzgerald Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Denise and Gerald Fitzgerald 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 Denise and Gerald Fitzgerald Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Circle of Service Foundation.
- Where is Denise and Gerald Fitzgerald Family Foundation based?
- Denise and Gerald Fitzgerald Family Foundation is based in IL.
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