Illinois · Private foundation
Foley 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.
- $224k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2025
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,050
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 53
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Foley Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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 | 51 | $224k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 45 | $198k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $88k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $19k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 46 | $198k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $170k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 46 | $188k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 53 | $193k | n/a |
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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academy for Urban School Leadership | $280,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Golden Apple Foundation for Excellence in Teaching | $167,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Uc Santa Cruz Foundation | $117,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Math Circles of Chicago | $50,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Save the Bay Inc | $41,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chicago Foundation for Education | $40,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc | $31,700 | 8 | 0% |
| The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence | $25,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $24,950 | 7 | 0% |
| Part of the Solution | $23,200 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($262k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Foley 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 · AbbVie Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Chicago Community Trust · Dr Scholl Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · All Chicago Making Homelessness History · Cme Group Foundation · Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Foundation
How this is measured
About Foley Family Foundation
- How much does Foley Family Foundation give?
- Foley Family Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $224,025 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 53 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Foley Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (57%), Health (6%), Arts & Culture (4%).
- Who are Foley Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Academy for Urban School Leadership ($280k), Golden Apple Foundation for Excellence in Teaching ($167k), Uc Santa Cruz Foundation ($117k).
- Does Foley Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Foley 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 Foley Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Circle of Service Foundation, AbbVie Foundation, Arie and Ida Crown Memorial.
- Where is Foley Family Foundation based?
- Foley Family Foundation is based in IL.
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