Illinois · Private foundation
Golder Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $537k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $51,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 44
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Golder Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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 | 34 | $537k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $424k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $448k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $438k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $449k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $405k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $394k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $417k | 23% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $471,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Golden Apple Foundation for Excellence in Teaching | $468,500 | 9 | 1% |
| University of Illinois Foundation | $360,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois Inc | $286,000 | 7 | 1% |
| American Jewish Committee | $200,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Interfaith America | $200,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Noble Network of Charter Schools | $182,020 | 9 | 0% |
| Endeavor Health Clinical Operations | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hebrew Seminary of the Deaf | $140,000 | 6 | 13% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc | $82,500 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 68 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($498k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Golder 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: The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Circle of Service Foundation · The Lake County Community Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · First Bank Chicago Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Gorter Family Foundation · Give N Kind · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About Golder Family Foundation
- How much does Golder Family Foundation give?
- Golder Family Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $537,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Golder Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (37%), Philanthropy (13%), Religion (12%).
- Who are Golder Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($471k), Golden Apple Foundation for Excellence in Teaching ($469k), University of Illinois Foundation ($360k).
- Does Golder Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Golder Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Golder Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Circle of Service Foundation.
- Where is Golder Family Foundation based?
- Golder Family Foundation is based in IL.
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