Illinois · Private foundation
Ed and Mary Schreck 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.
- $275k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 12
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Ed and Mary Schreck Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthArts & Culture
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 year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $275k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $270k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $250k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $250k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $210k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $230k | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Health$655kInternational$315kEnvironment$165kPhilanthropy$155kHuman Services$90kPublic Safety & Disaster$80kArts & Culture$25k
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mental Health America Inc | $220,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Erikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression | $165,000 | 6 | 2% |
| United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc | $155,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
| United Nations Foundation Inc | $120,000 | 6 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $120,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Misericordia Foundation | $90,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us | $75,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mental Health America Inc | $220,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Erikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression | $165,000 | 6 | 2% |
| United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc | $155,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
| United Nations Foundation Inc | $120,000 | 6 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $120,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Misericordia Foundation | $90,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us | $75,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Chicago River | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($275k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ed and Mary Schreck Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 11.
About Ed and Mary Schreck Foundation
- How much does Ed and Mary Schreck Foundation give?
- Ed and Mary Schreck Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $275,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Ed and Mary Schreck Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (44%), International (21%), Environment (11%).
- Who are Ed and Mary Schreck Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Mental Health America Inc ($220k), Erikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression ($165k), United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc ($155k).
- Does Ed and Mary Schreck Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ed and Mary Schreck 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.
- Where is Ed and Mary Schreck Foundation based?
- Ed and Mary Schreck Foundation is based in IL.
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