Illinois · Private foundation
Ernsteen 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.
- $44k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 71
- Grants FY2025
- 75
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 67 to 75
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 21
- Total assets, FY2025
- $102k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Ernsteen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% 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 | 70 | $44k | 1% |
| FY2024 | 75 | $44k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 75 | $44k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 67 | $41k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 69 | $44k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 71 | $41k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 67 | $46k | 12% |
| FY2018 | 71 | $41k | 90% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Diabetes Association | $13,100 | 9 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $12,575 | 7 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $12,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Myelodysplastic Syndromes Foundation | $11,750 | 9 | 0% |
| Congregation Beth Judea | $11,442 | 5 | n/a |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $9,250 | 8 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Illinois | $8,625 | 8 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $8,600 | 5 | 0% |
| Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion | $8,500 | 9 | n/a |
Show all 94 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($86k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ernsteen 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: AbbVie Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About Ernsteen Family Foundation
- How much does Ernsteen Family Foundation give?
- Ernsteen Family Foundation reported 71 grants totaling $43,942 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 67 and 75 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ernsteen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (42%), Religion (8%), Food & Nutrition (7%).
- Who are Ernsteen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Diabetes Association ($13k), Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc ($13k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($13k).
- Does Ernsteen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ernsteen 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 Ernsteen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
- Where is Ernsteen Family Foundation based?
- Ernsteen Family Foundation is based in IL.
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