Illinois · Private foundation
James and Lesley Anixter 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.
- $147k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $430k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations James and Lesley Anixter Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 | 18 | $144k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $138k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $109k | 45% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $98k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $90k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $83k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $121k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $131k | 35% |
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, FY2017 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 | $595,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Jewish Council for Youth Services | $66,700 | 9 | 0% |
| Am Shalom | $51,230 | 9 | n/a |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $22,900 | 4 | 0% |
| Camp Gan Israel | $21,300 | 9 | n/a |
| Ravinia Festival Association | $17,000 | 2 | 0% |
| North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lester and Rosalie Anixter Center | $7,800 | 5 | 0% |
| Jesse White Foundation Ltd | $7,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $6,600 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($133k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget James and Lesley Anixter 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 · Highland Park Community Foundation · First Bank Chicago Foundation · The Bill Bass Foundation · Kovler Family Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · YEA Highland Park Inc · Goodman Family Fund · Sam I Am Foundation · Jerrold Ruskin Foundation Inc · Healthcare Foundation of Highland Park · Mills Family Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
Compare James and Lesley Anixter Foundation with peer funders
About James and Lesley Anixter Foundation
- How much does James and Lesley Anixter Foundation give?
- James and Lesley Anixter Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $146,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does James and Lesley Anixter Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (60%), Religion (11%), Health (7%).
- Who are James and Lesley Anixter Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($596k), Jewish Council for Youth Services ($67k), Am Shalom ($51k).
- Does James and Lesley Anixter Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does James and Lesley Anixter 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 James and Lesley Anixter Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Highland Park Community Foundation, First Bank Chicago Foundation.
- Where is James and Lesley Anixter Foundation based?
- James and Lesley Anixter Foundation is based in IL.
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