Illinois · Private foundation
Irving and Cecelia Appelbaum 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.
- $3k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,800
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 11
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $46k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Irving and Cecelia Appelbaum Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $360 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 | 2 | $2k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $24k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $37k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $33k | 82% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $27k | 80% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $500 | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | $99,100 | 6 | 0% |
| San Diego Center for Jewish Culture | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Stephen Wise Free Synagogue | $2,700 | 2 | n/a |
| South Philadelphia Shtiebel | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Global Village Connect | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Limb Kind Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Project Open Inc | $760 | 4 | 0% |
| Jewish Theological Seminary of America | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | $99,100 | 6 | 0% |
| San Diego Center for Jewish Culture | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Stephen Wise Free Synagogue | $2,700 | 2 | n/a |
| South Philadelphia Shtiebel | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Global Village Connect | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Limb Kind Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Project Open Inc | $760 | 4 | 0% |
| Jewish Theological Seminary of America | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Berkshires Bounty Inc | $360 | 1 | 0% |
| Sefaria Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Rashi School Inc | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| National Brain Tumor Society Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($4k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Irving and Cecelia Appelbaum 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 Communal Fund · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Irving and Cecelia Appelbaum Foundation with peer funders
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About Irving and Cecelia Appelbaum Foundation
- How much does Irving and Cecelia Appelbaum Foundation give?
- Irving and Cecelia Appelbaum Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $3,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Irving and Cecelia Appelbaum Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (83%), Arts & Culture (6%), Human Services (3%).
- Who are Irving and Cecelia Appelbaum Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life ($99k), San Diego Center for Jewish Culture ($6k), The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ($3k).
- Does Irving and Cecelia Appelbaum Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Irving and Cecelia Appelbaum 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 Irving and Cecelia Appelbaum Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Irving and Cecelia Appelbaum Foundation based?
- Irving and Cecelia Appelbaum Foundation is based in IL.
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