Illinois · Private foundation
Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $160k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $21,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 40 to 44
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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 | 39 | $159k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $136k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $165k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $141k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $114k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $105k | 5% |
| FY2019 | 43 | $97k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States Fund for Unicef | $48,831 | 7 | 0% |
| Friends of the Robert Crown Center | $45,001 | 5 | 2% |
| Girls Play Sports Inc Nfp | $39,000 | 7 | 14% |
| James B Moran Center for Youth Advocacy | $38,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Erie Family Health Center Inc | $26,820 | 3 | 0% |
| Curt's Cafe | $21,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Equity & Empowerment for Evanston Families | $20,900 | 2 | 6% |
| Youth Job Center Inc | $20,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels | $20,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Evanston School Children's Clothing Assn | $18,000 | 7 | 5% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($394k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl 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: Evanston Community Foundation · Francis Beidler Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Kellcie Fund · Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation · Northwestern University · AbbVie Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Cless Family Foundation · Finnegan Family Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc
How this is measured
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About Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl Foundation
- How much does Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl Foundation give?
- Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $159,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 44 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (16%), Arts & Culture (11%), Education (10%).
- Who are Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: United States Fund for Unicef ($49k), Friends of the Robert Crown Center ($45k), Girls Play Sports Inc Nfp ($39k).
- Does Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Evanston Community Foundation, Francis Beidler Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl Foundation based?
- Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl Foundation is based in IL.
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