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.

Graber Family Foundation

Graber Family Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$80k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.1MHealth$732kEnvironment$458kArts & Culture$385kHuman Services$111kYouth Development$87kPhilanthropy$80kFood & Nutrition$62kOther$0

02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k10 grants · $48k
$10k–50k20 grants · $307k
$50k–250k1 grant · $80k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DORIS GRABER ENDOWED FUND - UNIERSITY OF IL FOUNDATION	$80,000
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ORTHODONTISTS FOUNDATION	$40,000
CITIZENS' CLIMATE EDUCATION	$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION	$25,000
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER	$20,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WISCONSIN	$15,000
WTTW	$15,000
NORTH LIGHT THEATER	$15,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY	$15,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF AMERICA	$15,000
Individual grant recipient	$15,000
CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN	$15,000
FEEDING AMERICA	$11,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION	$11,000
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 62% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.1M · 30 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.1M

$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+26%

Still filing today

77%

86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentHealthEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

University of Illinois Foundation
9× · 2017–2025 · $932k · revenue +127%
AA
AMERICAN ASSOC OF ORTHODONTISTS FDN
9× · 2017–2025 · $525k · revenue +101% · 41% of their budget
CC
CITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP
8× · 2017–2025 · $170k · revenue +1%

Funded once

BT
BREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +26%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2019 · $2k
SP
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
one grant, 2017 · $100 · revenue +10%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Climate Institute

The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…

Environment

Earth & Space Research

Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.

Science & Tech

Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals

Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights

The International Dark-Sky Association Inc

Darksky international restores the nighttime environment and protects communities from the harmful effects of light pollution through outreach, advocacy, and conservation.

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Fresh Energy

Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.

Environment

Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech

Alliance for Sustainable Energy Llc

The mission of the alliance for sustainable energy llc (alliance) is to operate the u.s. department of energy's national renewable energy laboratory to advance the science and engineering of energy efficiency, sustainable transportation,…

Science & Tech

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Earth; the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/30

Grantees still filing

26/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$1,062,550Health$731,520Other$621,700Environment$404,955Arts & Culture$235,500Public Safety & Disaster$57,500Recreation & Sports$54,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Graber Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Graber Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home