Illinois · Private foundation
Ira and Janina Marks Charitable Trust
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.
- $71k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 81
- Grants FY2025
- 70
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 58 to 78
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 19
- Total assets, FY2025
- $453k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Ira and Janina Marks Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 79 | $71k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 70 | $63k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 67 | $66k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 67 | $56k | 46% |
| FY2021 | 77 | $57k | 49% |
| FY2020 | 78 | $97k | 71% |
| FY2019 | 58 | $43k | n/a |
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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Janina Marks Charitable Foundation | $52,000 | 2 | 50% |
| Cnpa Foundation | $45,000 | 4 | 100% |
| Bounce Children's Foundation | $30,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Chicago Sinai Congregation | $22,450 | 5 | n/a |
| Field Museum of Natural History | $14,950 | 5 | 0% |
| Youth Job Center Inc | $14,320 | 7 | 0% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $12,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hyde Park Art Center | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Evanston Art Center | $9,620 | 6 | 0% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $6,500 | 4 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 93 recipients with no EIN on record ($101k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ira and Janina Marks Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 135 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: The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial
How this is measured
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About Ira and Janina Marks Charitable Trust
- How much does Ira and Janina Marks Charitable Trust give?
- Ira and Janina Marks Charitable Trust reported 81 grants totaling $70,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 58 and 78 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Ira and Janina Marks Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Philanthropy (15%), Health (11%).
- Who are Ira and Janina Marks Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Janina Marks Charitable Foundation ($52k), Cnpa Foundation ($45k), Bounce Children's Foundation ($30k).
- Does Ira and Janina Marks Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ira and Janina Marks Charitable Trust 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 Ira and Janina Marks Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.
- Where is Ira and Janina Marks Charitable Trust based?
- Ira and Janina Marks Charitable Trust is based in IL.
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