Illinois · Private foundation
Enjoy a Better Life 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.
- $32k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $608k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Enjoy a Better Life Foundation 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; $0 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 | 21 | $32k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $29k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $24k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $21k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $20k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $16k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $14k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $12k | 0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Libertyville Covenant Church Libertyville Il | $44,750 | 9 | n/a |
| Global Leadership Network | $8,850 | 9 | n/a |
| Feed My Starving Children Inc | $7,450 | 9 | 0% |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $6,750 | 9 | 0% |
| Jills House Inc | $6,400 | 9 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $6,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep | $5,650 | 7 | 0% |
| PADS Lake County Inc | $5,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Parkinson Disease Assoc | $4,825 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($50k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Enjoy a Better Life 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 · American Endowment Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
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About Enjoy a Better Life Foundation
- How much does Enjoy a Better Life Foundation give?
- Enjoy a Better Life Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $32,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Enjoy a Better Life Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (30%), Health (22%), Food & Nutrition (8%).
- Who are Enjoy a Better Life Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Libertyville Covenant Church Libertyville Il ($45k), Global Leadership Network ($9k), Feed My Starving Children Inc ($7k).
- Does Enjoy a Better Life Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Enjoy a Better Life 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 Enjoy a Better Life Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, American Endowment Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Enjoy a Better Life Foundation based?
- Enjoy a Better Life Foundation is based in IL.
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