Illinois · Private foundation
Fab 5 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.
- $16k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 18
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2k
- 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 Fab 5 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 | 3 | $16k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $54k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $177k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $172k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $142k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $110k | 64% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $50k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Am Shalom | $67,100 | 6 | n/a |
| University of Michigan | $25,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Reproductive Freedom for All Foundation | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Glenkirk | $18,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Family Service of Glencoe | $15,600 | 4 | 1% |
| Northwestern University | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| For Autistic Kids Foundation | $12,950 | 6 | 0% |
| College Bound Opportunities | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Jackson Chance Foundation | $7,800 | 2 | 1% |
| Repro TLC | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Am Shalom | $67,100 | 6 | n/a |
| University of Michigan | $25,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Reproductive Freedom for All Foundation | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Glenkirk | $18,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Family Service of Glencoe | $15,600 | 4 | 1% |
| Northwestern University | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| For Autistic Kids Foundation | $12,950 | 6 | 0% |
| College Bound Opportunities | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Jackson Chance Foundation | $7,800 | 2 | 1% |
| Repro TLC | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Reproductive Freedom for All | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Jewish Committee | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Glencoe Youth Services a Corporation | $2,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Pat Tillman Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| StandUp for Kids | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | $1,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Aspen Historical Society | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chabad at Tulane | $540 | 1 | n/a |
| Nourishing Hope | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($489k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fab 5 Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 4jd Family Foundation · Sacks Family Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Fab 5 Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Fab 5 Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Fab 5 Foundation
- How much does Fab 5 Foundation give?
- Fab 5 Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $16,322 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Fab 5 Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (32%), Health (31%), Religion (10%).
- Who are Fab 5 Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Am Shalom ($67k), University of Michigan ($25k), Reproductive Freedom for All Foundation ($25k).
- Does Fab 5 Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fab 5 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 Fab 5 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The 4jd Family Foundation, Sacks Family Foundation, AbbVie Foundation.
- Where is Fab 5 Foundation based?
- Fab 5 Foundation is based in IL.
Play a game based on Fab 5’s filings →