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.
- $126k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,215
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Foley Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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 | 12 | $126k | 58% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $121k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $47k | 57% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $29k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $58k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $82k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $92k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund | $345,665 | 9 | 2% |
| Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep | $124,615 | 6 | 0% |
| Club of Hearts Inc | $46,475 | 4 | 18% |
| The Exmoor Foundation | $44,500 | 4 | 5% |
| Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Reading Power Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| 1916 Foundation Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Big Shoulders Fund | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Faraja Fund Foundation | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund | $345,665 | 9 | 2% |
| Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep | $124,615 | 6 | 0% |
| Club of Hearts Inc | $46,475 | 4 | 18% |
| The Exmoor Foundation | $44,500 | 4 | 5% |
| Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Reading Power Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| 1916 Foundation Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Big Shoulders Fund | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Faraja Fund Foundation | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Allendale Foundation for Educational Excellenceinc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Beacon Place NFP | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 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 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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Foley Family Foundation
- How much does Foley Family Foundation give?
- Foley Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $125,715 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Foley Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (83%), Human Services (8%), Health (2%).
- Who are Foley Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund ($346k), Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep ($125k), Club of Hearts Inc ($46k).
- Does Foley Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% 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 Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Foley Family Foundation based?
- Foley Family Foundation is based in IL.
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