Illinois · Private foundation
Fairchild 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)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $300
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,821
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 36
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $208k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Fairchild Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 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 | 34 | $16k | 3% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $15k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $12k | 3% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $12k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $12k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $12k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $12k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $14k | 19% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $10,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $8,100 | 9 | n/a |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $4,700 | 9 | 0% |
| Fisher House Foundation Inc | $4,500 | 9 | 0% |
| EdChoice Inc | $4,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Cato Institute | $4,000 | 8 | 0% |
| National Military Family Association | $3,700 | 8 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $3,600 | 9 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $2,700 | 6 | 0% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $2,600 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($41k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fairchild 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: Red Bird Hollow Foundation · Sunshine Charitable Foundation · Clarks Fork Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About Fairchild Foundation
- How much does Fairchild Foundation give?
- Fairchild Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $16,121 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Fairchild Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Education (23%), International (8%).
- Who are Fairchild Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($10k), The Salvation Army ($8k), The Art Institute of Chicago ($5k).
- Does Fairchild Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fairchild 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 Fairchild Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Red Bird Hollow Foundation, Sunshine Charitable Foundation, Clarks Fork Foundation.
- Where is Fairchild Foundation based?
- Fairchild Foundation is based in IL.
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