Illinois · Private foundation
Howard and Sheila Pizer Charitable Found
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.
- $11k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2024
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $337
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 61
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $165k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 48% of the organizations Howard and Sheila Pizer Charitable Found funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 24 | $10k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $23k | 48% |
| FY2022 | 61 | $42k | 49% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $16k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 60 | $31k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $11,075 | 2 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $5,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $4,750 | 3 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $4,050 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Special Children's Charities | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Briarwood Scholarship Foundation | $2,903 | 5 | 0% |
| Curt's Cafe | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $2,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 93 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($29k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Howard and Sheila Pizer Charitable Found 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 · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Give N Kind · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Howard and Sheila Pizer Charitable Found with peer funders
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About Howard and Sheila Pizer Charitable Found
- How much does Howard and Sheila Pizer Charitable Found give?
- Howard and Sheila Pizer Charitable Found reported 26 grants totaling $11,327 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 61 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Howard and Sheila Pizer Charitable Found fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (19%), Education (13%), International (12%).
- Who are Howard and Sheila Pizer Charitable Found's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Art Institute of Chicago ($11k), Northwestern University ($8k), Southern Poverty Law Center Inc ($5k).
- Does Howard and Sheila Pizer Charitable Found fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Howard and Sheila Pizer Charitable Found 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 Howard and Sheila Pizer Charitable Found?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, The Chicago Community Trust, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.
- Where is Howard and Sheila Pizer Charitable Found based?
- Howard and Sheila Pizer Charitable Found is based in IL.
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