Illinois · Private foundation
Gummow 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.
- $33k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $26,490
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 7
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $242k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Gummow Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 73% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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 | 5 | $33k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $19k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $4k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $37k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $68k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $26k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $34k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock House Kids | $96,800 | 7 | 4% |
| City First Church | $39,490 | 2 | n/a |
| Rockford Rescue Mission Ministries | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Carpenter's Place Inc | $1,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Gigis Playhouse Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rosecrance Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Miss Carly's Inc | $400 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($69k), not named here.
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: Jeffrey R Anderson Charitable Foundation · Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · John T Wolf Charitable Trust II · Amended and Restated Brubaker Charitable Trust · Guy Reno Family Foundation · Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation · Ralph J Baudhuin Foundation · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · Community Foundation of Northern IL · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
About Gummow Family Foundation
- How much does Gummow Family Foundation give?
- Gummow Family Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $32,890 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Gummow Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (44%), Religion (23%), Environment (21%).
- Who are Gummow Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Rock House Kids ($97k), City First Church ($39k), Rockford Rescue Mission Ministries ($13k).
- Does Gummow Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gummow 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 Gummow Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jeffrey R Anderson Charitable Foundation, Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation, The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Gummow Family Foundation based?
- Gummow Family Foundation is based in IL.
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