Illinois · Private foundation
Ellen Soren 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.
- $88k
- Granted FY2022
- 17
- Itemized grants FY2022
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 93%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Itemized, FY2022
- $74k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2022
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2022
- Total assets, FY2022
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 93% of the organizations Ellen Soren Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 99% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 15 | $74k | 93% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $53k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $69k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $81k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $69k | 40% |
| FY2017 | 12 | $52k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Foundation | $70,015 | 5 | 2% |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago | $55,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Global | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Francis W Parker School | $50,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Paws Chicago | $20,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $16,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Prosper Chicago Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Special Olympics Inc | $4,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Museum of Contemporary Art | $3,497 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Foundation | $70,015 | 5 | 2% |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago | $55,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Global | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Francis W Parker School | $50,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Paws Chicago | $20,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $16,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Prosper Chicago Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Special Olympics Inc | $4,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Museum of Contemporary Art | $3,497 | 2 | 0% |
| Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Share Our Strength | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Luminarts Cultural Foundation the Union League Club of Chicago | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Camp of Dreams | $1,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Rush University Medical Center | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Cancer Wellness Center | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chicago Children's Museum | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Am Shalom | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| For Autistic Kids Foundation | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($107k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ellen Soren 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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Ellen Soren Family Foundation
- How much does Ellen Soren Family Foundation give?
- Ellen Soren Family Foundation reported 17 itemized grants totaling $74,000, out of $88,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does Ellen Soren Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Health (28%), Human Services (10%), Education (8%).
- Who are Ellen Soren Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Foundation ($70k), Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ($55k), Ronald McDonald House Global ($50k).
- Does Ellen Soren Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 93% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ellen Soren 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 Ellen Soren Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, National Philanthropic Trust, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is Ellen Soren Family Foundation based?
- Ellen Soren Family Foundation is based in IL.
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