Illinois · Private foundation
Flowers for Dreams Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $191k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 74%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,411
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 23
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $65k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 74% of the organizations Flowers for Dreams Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 83% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k 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 | 23 | $191k | 78% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $191k | 74% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $209k | 95% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $205k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $182k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| NAMI National | $70,765 | 1 | 0% |
| A Long Walk Home Inc | $47,421 | 1 | 5% |
| Role Model Movement Inc (NFP) | $42,378 | 2 | 1% |
| Healing to Action | $37,676 | 1 | 2% |
| Grocery Run Club | $36,429 | 1 | n/a |
| Digs With Dignity Corporation | $33,321 | 1 | 8% |
| Embarc Inc | $32,420 | 1 | 1% |
| Growing Home Inc | $30,106 | 2 | 1% |
| Raise Your Hand for Illinois Public Education | $21,758 | 1 | 2% |
| TFK Chicago Voyagers | $21,607 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 71 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($189k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Flowers for Dreams 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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Reva and David Logan Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women · Circle of Service Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Julian Grace Foundation · Crossroads Fund Inc · The Skillman Foundation
How this is measured
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About Flowers for Dreams Foundation
- How much does Flowers for Dreams Foundation give?
- Flowers for Dreams Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $190,878 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 23 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Flowers for Dreams Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (18%), Health (18%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are Flowers for Dreams Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: NAMI National ($71k), A Long Walk Home Inc ($47k), Role Model Movement Inc (NFP) ($42k).
- Does Flowers for Dreams Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 74% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Flowers for Dreams Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Flowers for Dreams Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Polk Bros Foundation Inc, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.
- Where is Flowers for Dreams Foundation based?
- Flowers for Dreams Foundation is based in IL.
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