Illinois · Private foundation
Frankel Julius N Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2025
- 55
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,366,054
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 55
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $63M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Frankel Julius N Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k 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 | $5.1M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 55 | $3.8M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $4.0M | 10% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $3.6M | 6% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $3.5M | 4% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $3.3M | 9% |
| FY2019 | 46 | $3.3M | 13% |
| FY2018 | 42 | $3.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lyric Opera of Chicago | $2,825,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago | $1,504,945 | 6 | 0% |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $1,400,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $1,075,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Chicago Shakespeare Theater | $1,050,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Steppenwolf Theatre Company | $970,000 | 8 | 1% |
| La Rabida Children's Hospital | $800,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Night Ministry | $780,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Grant Park Orchestral Association | $575,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Music of the Baroque | $565,000 | 8 | 3% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Frankel Julius N 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: The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Patrick and Anna M Cudahy Fund · The Irving Harris Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois
How this is measured
About Frankel Julius N Foundation
- How much does Frankel Julius N Foundation give?
- Frankel Julius N Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $5,066,054 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 55 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Frankel Julius N Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (41%), Health (20%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Frankel Julius N Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Lyric Opera of Chicago ($2.8M), Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ($1.5M), Chicago Symphony Orchestra ($1.4M).
- Does Frankel Julius N Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Frankel Julius N Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Frankel Julius N Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Polk Bros Foundation Inc, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.
- Where is Frankel Julius N Foundation based?
- Frankel Julius N Foundation is based in IL.
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