Michigan · Private foundation
Ericka and Matthew Thacker 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.
- $96k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $360
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,525
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 30
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $630k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Ericka and Matthew Thacker Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 30 | $96k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $73k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $46k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $51k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $58k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $35k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School | $114,246 | 6 | 0% |
| Mishkan Chicago | $85,828 | 6 | n/a |
| Beacon Academy a Montessori High School | $76,664 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Michigan | $25,525 | 1 | 4% |
| Dare2tri Paratriathlon Club | $11,979 | 4 | 1% |
| Circesteem Inc | $6,680 | 4 | 0% |
| Old Town School of Folk Music | $4,280 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $3,070 | 2 | 0% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $2,340 | 4 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County Inc | $2,050 | 2 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($7k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ericka and Matthew Thacker 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: Circle of Service Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Ericka and Matthew Thacker Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Ericka and Matthew Thacker Family Foundation
- How much does Ericka and Matthew Thacker Family Foundation give?
- Ericka and Matthew Thacker Family Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $96,190 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 30 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Ericka and Matthew Thacker Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (55%), Religion (24%), Health (7%).
- Who are Ericka and Matthew Thacker Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School ($114k), Mishkan Chicago ($86k), Beacon Academy a Montessori High School ($77k).
- Does Ericka and Matthew Thacker Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ericka and Matthew Thacker 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 Ericka and Matthew Thacker Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Circle of Service Foundation, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Ericka and Matthew Thacker Family Foundation based?
- Ericka and Matthew Thacker Family Foundation is based in MI.
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