Illinois · Private foundation
Francis Beidler Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 94
- Grants FY2025
- 90
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 1%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $285,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 90 to 109
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 1% of the organizations Francis Beidler 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; $2k 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 | 92 | $1.0M | 3% |
| FY2024 | 90 | $893k | 1% |
| FY2023 | 91 | $889k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 94 | $978k | 2% |
| FY2021 | 99 | $777k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 102 | $756k | 3% |
| FY2019 | 105 | $719k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 109 | $697k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Voter Participation Center | $1,458,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Chicago Youth Centers | $533,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Chicago Children's Museum | $320,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Public Interest Law Initiative | $233,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Project on Government Oversight Inc | $196,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Better Government Association Inc | $193,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Start Early | $110,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Girls Play Sports Inc Nfp | $86,000 | 8 | 39% |
| Erie Family Health Center Inc | $85,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Chapin Hall Center for Children | $77,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 71 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 70 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Francis Beidler Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 67 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Chicago Community Trust · Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl Foundation · The Kellcie Fund · Evanston Community Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Northwestern University · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · AbbVie Foundation
How this is measured
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About Francis Beidler Foundation
- How much does Francis Beidler Foundation give?
- Francis Beidler Foundation reported 94 grants totaling $1,007,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 90 and 109 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Francis Beidler Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (28%), Health (13%), Youth Development (9%).
- Who are Francis Beidler Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Voter Participation Center ($1.5M), Chicago Youth Centers ($534k), Chicago Children's Museum ($320k).
- Does Francis Beidler Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 1% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Francis Beidler Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Francis Beidler Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl Foundation, The Kellcie Fund.
- Where is Francis Beidler Foundation based?
- Francis Beidler Foundation is based in IL.
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