Illinois · Private foundation
Herrendorf Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 267
- Grants FY2025
- 86
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 69%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,447
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $170,766
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 86
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $44M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 69% of the organizations Herrendorf Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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 | 99 | $2.5M | 49% |
| FY2024 | 86 | $3.9M | 69% |
| FY2023 | 70 | $2.3M | 79% |
| FY2022 | 55 | $2.3M | 80% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $1.1M | 60% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $1.5M | 68% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $1.7M | 36% |
| FY2018 | 43 | $1.4M | 93% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $3,940,332 | 5 | 1% |
| Admirals Cove Foundation Inc | $576,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $445,700 | 7 | 0% |
| Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc | $405,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| American Friends of Sheba Medical Center Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Arie Crown Endowment Foundation | $166,666 | 2 | 53% |
| Place of Hope Inc | $125,000 | 1 | n/a |
| No Shame on U Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 38% |
| Agudah Camps Inc | $70,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 69 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 236 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Herrendorf Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 55 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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Communal Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · Deitchman Charitable Foundation Inc · Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago · The Harold Grinspoon Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About Herrendorf Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Herrendorf Family Foundation Inc give?
- Herrendorf Family Foundation Inc reported 267 grants totaling $2,502,623 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 86 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Herrendorf Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (29%), Education (23%), Civil Rights (10%).
- Who are Herrendorf Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Friends of the Israel Defense Forces ($3.9M), Admirals Cove Foundation Inc ($576k), Friends of United Hatzalah Inc ($446k).
- Does Herrendorf Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Herrendorf Family 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 Herrendorf Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Jewish Communal Fund, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Herrendorf Family Foundation Inc based?
- Herrendorf Family Foundation Inc is based in IL.
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