Illinois · Private foundation
Graber 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.
- $435k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Graber Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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 | 31 | $435k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $403k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $367k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $435k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $520k | 4% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $366k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $310k | 59% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $248k | 40% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Illinois Foundation | $932,000 | 9 | 0% |
| American Assoc of Orthodontists Fdn | $525,000 | 9 | 41% |
| Citizens Climate Education Corp | $170,175 | 8 | 1% |
| Northlight Theatre Inc | $117,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest | $106,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Washington University | $104,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Eastern Wisconsin Inc | $89,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America | $87,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Window to the World Communications Inc | $61,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $59,500 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($387k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Graber Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Graber Family Foundation
- How much does Graber Family Foundation give?
- Graber Family Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $435,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Graber Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Health (23%), Environment (14%).
- Who are Graber Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Illinois Foundation ($932k), American Assoc of Orthodontists Fdn ($525k), Citizens Climate Education Corp ($170k).
- Does Graber Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Graber 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 Graber Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Graber Family Foundation based?
- Graber Family Foundation is based in IL.
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