Illinois · Private foundation
Freund 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.
- $45k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,444
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,195
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 18
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $954k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Freund Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 | 16 | $45k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $42k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $43k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $44k | 78% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $33k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Family Learning Aquatic Programs Inc | $21,226 | 2 | 99% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $12,846 | 4 | 0% |
| Black Girl Magic Educational Services In | $10,663 | 1 | 7% |
| Briarpatch Youth Services Inc | $10,563 | 1 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $9,114 | 3 | 0% |
| Arts Business Collaborative | $8,756 | 1 | 0% |
| Immigrant Legal Defense | $5,597 | 1 | 0% |
| Palestine Children's Relief Fund | $5,597 | 1 | n/a |
| St John the Evangelist Homeless Shelter Inc | $4,470 | 3 | 0% |
| 40 Days for Life | $4,173 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Family Learning Aquatic Programs Inc | $21,226 | 2 | 99% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $12,846 | 4 | 0% |
| Black Girl Magic Educational Services In | $10,663 | 1 | 7% |
| Briarpatch Youth Services Inc | $10,563 | 1 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $9,114 | 3 | 0% |
| Arts Business Collaborative | $8,756 | 1 | 0% |
| Immigrant Legal Defense | $5,597 | 1 | 0% |
| Palestine Children's Relief Fund | $5,597 | 1 | n/a |
| St John the Evangelist Homeless Shelter Inc | $4,470 | 3 | 0% |
| 40 Days for Life | $4,173 | 4 | 0% |
| Choose Life Inc | $3,432 | 3 | 0% |
| Guatemala Service Projects Inc | $2,756 | 1 | 1% |
| Feminists for Life of America Inc | $1,444 | 1 | 0% |
| Fish Camp Volunteer Fire Association | $1,444 | 1 | n/a |
| Save the Storks | $1,230 | 2 | 0% |
| Howe Community Resource Center Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Turning Point USA Inc | $744 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($101k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Freund Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 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 Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Freund Family Foundation
- How much does Freund Family Foundation give?
- Freund Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $44,781 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Freund Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (9%), Recreation & Sports (7%), Youth Development (7%).
- Who are Freund Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Family Learning Aquatic Programs Inc ($21k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($13k), Black Girl Magic Educational Services In ($11k).
- Does Freund Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Freund 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 Freund Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund.
- Where is Freund Family Foundation based?
- Freund Family Foundation is based in IL.
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