Illinois · Private foundation
Harczak 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.
- $472k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $362,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $438k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Harczak Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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 | 18 | $472k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $144k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $86k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $145k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $95k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $285k | 46% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $136k | 70% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $135k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depaul University | $636,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Chicago Theatre Group Inc | $106,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Chicago Children's Advocacy Center | $96,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Marist High School | $74,350 | 5 | n/a |
| Chicago Police Memorial Foundation | $42,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Streetwise | $35,579 | 6 | 1% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $22,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $18,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Code Our Dreams | $15,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Golden Apple Foundation for Excellence in Teaching | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depaul University | $636,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Chicago Theatre Group Inc | $106,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Chicago Children's Advocacy Center | $96,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Marist High School | $74,350 | 5 | n/a |
| Chicago Police Memorial Foundation | $42,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Streetwise | $35,579 | 6 | 1% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $22,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $18,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Code Our Dreams | $15,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Golden Apple Foundation for Excellence in Teaching | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Steppenwolf Theatre Company | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Breakthrough Urban Ministries Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chicago History Museum | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jazz Institute of Chicago | $1,200 | 1 | 0% |
| The American Writers Museum | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Museum of Contemporary Art | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Illinois Youth Dance Theatre Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($416k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harczak 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.
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How this is measured
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About Harczak Family Foundation
- How much does Harczak Family Foundation give?
- Harczak Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $471,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Harczak Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (51%), Arts & Culture (10%), Crime & Legal (7%).
- Who are Harczak Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Depaul University ($636k), Chicago Theatre Group Inc ($107k), Chicago Children's Advocacy Center ($97k).
- Does Harczak Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harczak 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 Harczak Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Harczak Family Foundation based?
- Harczak Family Foundation is based in IL.
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