Illinois · Private foundation
Gerald a & Karen a Kolschowsky Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $12M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 162
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 95
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $11M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $5,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 89 to 100
- FY2019 to FY2023
- Total assets, FY2024
- $29M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Gerald a & Karen a Kolschowsky Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $322k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 100 | $11M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 95 | $9.5M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 92 | $8.7M | 4% |
| FY2021 | 89 | $2.9M | 9% |
| FY2019 | 100 | $2.5M | n/a |
90% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Health$21MPhilanthropy$10MEducation$2.4MScience & Tech$2.2MHuman Services$1.6MReligion$1.3MFood & Nutrition$1.1MEnvironment$594kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest grants in FY2024.
| Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation | $5,000,000 |
| ISUF (CSRL Project) | $450,000 |
| Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation | $325,000 |
| Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation | $325,000 |
| Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation | $325,000 |
| Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation | $325,000 |
| Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago | $250,000 |
| Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago | $250,000 |
| Michigan State University | $250,000 |
| Michigan State University | $220,700 |
| Michigan State University | $162,500 |
| Michigan State University | $162,500 |
| Lutheran Child and Family Services of IL | $150,000 |
| University of Oxford | $126,575 |
| All Faiths Food Bank, Inc | $100,000 |
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About Gerald a & Karen a Kolschowsky Foundation Inc
- How much does Gerald a & Karen a Kolschowsky Foundation Inc give?
- Gerald a & Karen a Kolschowsky Foundation Inc reported 162 itemized grants totaling $10,960,165, out of $11,651,365 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 89 and 100 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Gerald a & Karen a Kolschowsky Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (44%), Philanthropy (21%), Education (5%).
- Does Gerald a & Karen a Kolschowsky Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gerald a & Karen a Kolschowsky Foundation Inc 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.
- Where is Gerald a & Karen a Kolschowsky Foundation Inc based?
- Gerald a & Karen a Kolschowsky Foundation Inc is based in IL.
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