Illinois · Private foundation
Gavlin 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.
- $94k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 93
- Grants FY2025
- 101
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 82 to 101
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Gavlin 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; $12k 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 | $91k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 101 | $90k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 87 | $77k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 91 | $77k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 94 | $79k | 52% |
| FY2020 | 82 | $66k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queer Asterisk | $60,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Lincoln Park Zoological Society | $14,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Ada S McKinley Community Services Inc | $10,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Chicagoland Exotic Animal Rescue | $10,000 | 4 | 15% |
| National Parks Conservation Association | $9,050 | 6 | 0% |
| Colorado Museum of Natural History | $9,034 | 6 | 0% |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $9,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $8,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $8,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $7,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 128 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 81 recipients with no EIN on record ($127k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gavlin 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: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Colorado Gives Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Denver Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation
How this is measured
About Gavlin Family Foundation
- How much does Gavlin Family Foundation give?
- Gavlin Family Foundation reported 93 grants totaling $94,005 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 82 and 101 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Gavlin Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (18%), Arts & Culture (17%), Animals (9%).
- Who are Gavlin Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Queer Asterisk ($60k), Lincoln Park Zoological Society ($14k), Ada S McKinley Community Services Inc ($10k).
- Does Gavlin Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gavlin 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 Gavlin Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, Circle of Service Foundation, Field Foundation of Illinois.
- Where is Gavlin Family Foundation based?
- Gavlin Family Foundation is based in IL.
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