Illinois · Private foundation
Equity Residential 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.
- $163k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Equity Residential Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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 | 13 | $153k | 62% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $155k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $140k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $109k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $121k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $177k | 77% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $118k | 62% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $211k | 50% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Innovation Network for Communities Inc | $195,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Ferguson Charitable Foundation | $75,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $69,534 | 7 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $56,955 | 5 | 0% |
| Over the Rainbow Association | $50,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Nareit Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Mercy Housing California | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Northwestern University | $40,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Trevor Project Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement | $40,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 68 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($272k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Equity Residential 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: The Chicago Community Trust · Greater Chicago Food Depository · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Wells Fargo Foundation · California Community Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Equity Residential Foundation
- How much does Equity Residential Foundation give?
- Equity Residential Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $162,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Equity Residential Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (21%), Employment (18%), Education (10%).
- Who are Equity Residential Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Innovation Network for Communities Inc ($195k), Ferguson Charitable Foundation ($75k), Greater Chicago Food Depository ($70k).
- Does Equity Residential Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Equity Residential 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 Equity Residential Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Greater Chicago Food Depository, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
- Where is Equity Residential Foundation based?
- Equity Residential Foundation is based in IL.
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