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Harold F & Suzanne D Falk Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$67k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2024
20
Organizations funded FY2023
10%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
18 to 20
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$450k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 10% of the organizations Harold F & Suzanne D Falk Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving18$67k0%
FY202320$62k10%
FY202220$62k10%
FY202119$50k0%
FY202018$46k0%
FY201920$45kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$142kHealth$64kYouth Development$41kSocial Science$19kCivil Rights$17kReligion$11kRecreation & Sports$10kEnvironment$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
CA
CO
MO
VA
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Milwaukee School of Engineering$75,00060%
Rush University Medical Center$50,00060%
Bernie's Book Bank$38,50060%
Loyola Academy$25,0005n/a
Foundation for Economic Education Inc$18,50060%
Noble Network of Charter Schools$18,00060%
Young America's Foundation$8,00060%
Partners for Progress Nfp$8,00060%
Openlands$7,50060%
Achieve Tahoe$7,00030%
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All grantees of Harold F & Suzanne D Falk Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Milwaukee School of Engineering$75,00060%
Rush University Medical Center$50,00060%
Bernie's Book Bank$38,50060%
Loyola Academy$25,0005n/a
Foundation for Economic Education Inc$18,50060%
Noble Network of Charter Schools$18,00060%
Young America's Foundation$8,00060%
Partners for Progress Nfp$8,00060%
Openlands$7,50060%
Achieve Tahoe$7,00030%
Americas Future Inc$6,00061%
Christian Anti-Communism Crusade Dba Christian Worldview Ministry$2,00051%
Chicago Horticultural Society$2,00020%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($67k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harold F & Suzanne D Falk Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMilwaukee School of Engineering: $75,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBernie's Book Bank: $38,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Economic Education Inc: $18,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNoble Network of Charter Schools: $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPartners for Progress Nfp: $8,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOpenlands: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAchieve Tahoe: $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmericas Future Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetChristian Anti-Communism Crusade Dba Christian Worldview Ministry: $2,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetChicago Horticultural Society: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to Harold F & Suzanne D Falk Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Harold F & Suzanne D Falk Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Harold F & Suzanne D Falk Foundation Inc

How much does Harold F & Suzanne D Falk Foundation Inc give?
Harold F & Suzanne D Falk Foundation Inc reported 18 grants totaling $66,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 20 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Harold F & Suzanne D Falk Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (43%), Health (19%), Youth Development (12%).
Who are Harold F & Suzanne D Falk Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Milwaukee School of Engineering ($75k), Rush University Medical Center ($50k), Bernie's Book Bank ($39k).
Does Harold F & Suzanne D Falk Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Harold F & Suzanne D Falk Foundation Inc 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 Harold F & Suzanne D Falk Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Harold F & Suzanne D Falk Foundation Inc based?
Harold F & Suzanne D Falk Foundation Inc is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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