Illinois · Private foundation
Edlis - Neeson Foundation Nfp
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.
- $11M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $83,750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $9,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $24M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Edlis - Neeson Foundation Nfp funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 12 | $11M | 8% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $1.4M | 7% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $1.7M | 7% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $1.1M | 8% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $975k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $1.1M | 11% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $698k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $1.4M | 26% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Museum of Contemporary Art | $10,421,324 | 8 | 37% |
| New Museum of Contemporary Art | $4,592,850 | 9 | 11% |
| Lyric Opera of Chicago | $3,154,600 | 8 | 1% |
| Aspen Art Museum | $2,088,500 | 9 | 16% |
| Chicago Opera Theater | $895,000 | 6 | 2% |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | $671,550 | 9 | 0% |
| Dia Center for the Arts Inc | $502,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | $301,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Chicago Public Media Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Abraham Initiatives Inc | $230,000 | 3 | 8% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Edlis - Neeson Foundation Nfp supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Broad Art Foundation · Cardinal Four Foundation Inc · Arison Arts Foundation · The Cowles Charitable Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
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About Edlis - Neeson Foundation Nfp
- How much does Edlis - Neeson Foundation Nfp give?
- Edlis - Neeson Foundation Nfp reported 13 grants totaling $10,781,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Edlis - Neeson Foundation Nfp fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (89%), Social Science (3%), Civil Rights (1%).
- Who are Edlis - Neeson Foundation Nfp's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Museum of Contemporary Art ($10M), New Museum of Contemporary Art ($4.6M), Lyric Opera of Chicago ($3.2M).
- Does Edlis - Neeson Foundation Nfp fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Edlis - Neeson Foundation Nfp 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 Edlis - Neeson Foundation Nfp?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Jewish Communal Fund, The Broad Art Foundation.
- Where is Edlis - Neeson Foundation Nfp based?
- Edlis - Neeson Foundation Nfp is based in IL.
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