Illinois · Private foundation
Irish Woods Foundation
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.
- $955k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 69
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Irish Woods Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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 | 54 | $955k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $852k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $773k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 53 | $743k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 62 | $835k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 69 | $747k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 58 | $646k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Lumiere School Inc | $996,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $470,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Chicago Jesuit Academy | $420,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Rebuilding Together Metro Chicago | $270,000 | 7 | 6% |
| After School Matters Inc | $205,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Share Foundation With the Handicapped Inc | $170,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Beyond Hunger | $131,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $90,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Anthony Rizzo Family Foundation | $90,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Special Olympics Illinois | $86,550 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Irish Woods 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: The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Joseph R & Helen Shaker Family Foundation · Good Heart Work Smart Foundation · Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · Usg Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc
How this is measured
About Irish Woods Foundation
- How much does Irish Woods Foundation give?
- Irish Woods Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $955,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 69 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Irish Woods Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Health (24%), Housing & Shelter (6%).
- Who are Irish Woods Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: La Lumiere School Inc ($996k), Cystic Fibrosis Foundation ($470k), Chicago Jesuit Academy ($420k).
- Does Irish Woods Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Irish Woods Foundation 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 Irish Woods Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, AbbVie Foundation, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.
- Where is Irish Woods Foundation based?
- Irish Woods Foundation is based in IL.
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