Illinois · Private foundation
Goldberg Kohn Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $88k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $22,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $34k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Goldberg Kohn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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 | 15 | $88k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $78k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $96k | 71% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $66k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $117k | 41% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $140k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $128k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $146k | 53% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Secured Finance Foundation | $147,500 | 7 | 5% |
| Shriver Center on Poverty Law | $112,000 | 4 | 1% |
| World Business Chicago | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Chicago Bar Foundation | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Family Services | $60,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Anti-Fraud Coalition | $39,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Role Model Movement Inc (NFP) | $34,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $32,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Cradles to Crayons Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Children's Tumor Foundation | $17,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 60 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($152k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Goldberg Kohn 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: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Katten Muchin Rosenman Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Illinois Bar Foundation · The Chicago Bar Foundation · Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois · Illinois Equal Justice Foundation
How this is measured
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About Goldberg Kohn Foundation
- How much does Goldberg Kohn Foundation give?
- Goldberg Kohn Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $87,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Goldberg Kohn Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (16%), Philanthropy (14%), Crime & Legal (13%).
- Who are Goldberg Kohn Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Secured Finance Foundation ($148k), Shriver Center on Poverty Law ($112k), World Business Chicago ($75k).
- Does Goldberg Kohn Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Goldberg Kohn Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Goldberg Kohn Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Polk Bros Foundation Inc, The Sidley Austin Foundation, Robert R McCormick Foundation.
- Where is Goldberg Kohn Foundation based?
- Goldberg Kohn Foundation is based in IL.
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