Illinois · Private foundation
Franklin F Offner 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.
- $27k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,252
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $459k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Franklin F Offner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 18 | $27k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $30k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $42k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $30k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $12k | 54% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $36k | 53% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $34k | 48% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $33k | 50% |
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $30,500 | 7 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $28,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $25,153 | 7 | 0% |
| Feed the Children Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $9,605 | 5 | 0% |
| Children's Defense Fund | $9,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $8,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness | $8,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Wounded Warriors Family Support Inc | $8,105 | 3 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $8,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 52 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($46k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Franklin F Offner 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 · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Franklin F Offner Foundation
- How much does Franklin F Offner Foundation give?
- Franklin F Offner Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $27,408 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Franklin F Offner Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (25%), Health (22%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Franklin F Offner Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc ($31k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($28k), Greater Chicago Food Depository ($25k).
- Does Franklin F Offner Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Franklin F Offner 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 Franklin F Offner Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, AbbVie Foundation.
- Where is Franklin F Offner Foundation based?
- Franklin F Offner Foundation is based in IL.
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