Skip to content

Illinois · Private foundation

Girouard 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.

$159k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
17
Organizations funded FY2024
35%
First-time grantees FY2024
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 17
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
11
Total assets, FY2025
$2.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Girouard Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsPhilanthropyPublic BenefitInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving17$159k24%
FY202417$101k35%
FY202315$75k27%
FY202217$94k29%
FY202115$76k20%
FY202014$55k50%
FY201913$72k54%
FY20188$13kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$190kEducation$137kReligion$124kFood & Nutrition$56kHealth$46kInternational$27kRecreation & Sports$20kEnvironment$19kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
MN
IL
WI
MA
PA
RI
CA
CO
NE
WV
VA
MD
TN
OK
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 20 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($295k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Girouard Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFeed My Starving Children Inc: $47,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCrisis Center for South Suburbia: $39,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFisher House Foundation Inc: $27,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTeam Rubicon Inc: $26,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAppalachian Trail Conservancy: $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Green Mountain Club Inc Debonis: $16,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSoldiers Organized Services: $14,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetWorcester Polytechnic Institute: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Seacoast Mission: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGolden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBoulder Crest Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Odayin: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFeed the Children Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bridge Teen Center Nfp: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGary Sinise Foundation: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMen Making a Differrence Mmad: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWreaths Across America: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Warrior Wishes: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL11.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Compare Girouard Family Foundation with peer funders

About Girouard Family Foundation

How much does Girouard Family Foundation give?
Girouard Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $159,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Girouard Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Education (21%), Religion (19%).
Who are Girouard Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Marist High School ($101k), Feed My Starving Children Inc ($48k), Crisis Center for South Suburbia ($39k).
Does Girouard Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Girouard 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 Girouard Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is Girouard Family Foundation based?
Girouard Family Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Girouard Family’s filings →

More from the funding graph