Illinois · Private foundation
Howard & Helaine Resnick Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $30k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 54%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $207
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,165
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 34
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $181k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 54% of the organizations Howard & Helaine Resnick Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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 | 24 | $28k | 54% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $52k | 54% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $30k | 57% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $762k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $286k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $349k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $313,396 | 6 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $196,060 | 6 | 0% |
| North Suburban Synagogue Beth El Endowment Fund Inc | $77,826 | 6 | n/a |
| Israel Tennis Centers Foundation Inc | $30,360 | 3 | 0% |
| Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation | $16,937 | 6 | 1% |
| Opendor Media Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Moriah Congregation | $14,740 | 4 | n/a |
| Camp Ramah in Wisconsin Inc | $11,192 | 3 | n/a |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $11,165 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $10,445 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 61 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($729k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Howard & Helaine Resnick 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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Hochberg Family Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Chicago Community Trust · Sam I Am Foundation · Charles and M R Shapiro Foundation Inc · Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation · Kovler Family Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · AbbVie Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Howard & Helaine Resnick Foundation with peer funders
About Howard & Helaine Resnick Foundation
- How much does Howard & Helaine Resnick Foundation give?
- Howard & Helaine Resnick Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $30,380 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 34 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Howard & Helaine Resnick Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (65%), Recreation & Sports (14%), Religion (8%).
- Who are Howard & Helaine Resnick Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($313k), Northwestern University ($196k), North Suburban Synagogue Beth El Endowment Fund Inc ($78k).
- Does Howard & Helaine Resnick Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Howard & Helaine Resnick Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Howard & Helaine Resnick Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Hochberg Family Foundation, Arie and Ida Crown Memorial.
- Where is Howard & Helaine Resnick Foundation based?
- Howard & Helaine Resnick Foundation is based in IL.
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