Illinois · Private foundation
Jentes Family 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.
- $469k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,598
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $101,711
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Jentes Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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 | 23 | $469k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $398k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $625k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $752k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $448k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $436k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $337k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $256k | 47% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hyde Park Art Center | $770,356 | 9 | 5% |
| Bryn Mawr College | $463,893 | 7 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Family Services | $431,805 | 4 | 0% |
| 826chi Inc | $136,219 | 9 | 5% |
| Chicago Shakespeare Theater | $118,690 | 3 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $98,691 | 9 | 0% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $94,136 | 5 | 0% |
| Pro Publica Inc | $68,533 | 6 | 0% |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $68,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Links Hall Inc | $67,063 | 9 | 5% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($887k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jentes Family 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: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Field Foundation of Illinois · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Prince Foundation · The Irving Harris Foundation · The Poetry Foundation · The Joyce Foundation
How this is measured
About Jentes Family Foundation
- How much does Jentes Family Foundation give?
- Jentes Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $469,238 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Jentes Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (45%), Education (23%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Jentes Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hyde Park Art Center ($770k), Bryn Mawr College ($464k), Metropolitan Family Services ($432k).
- Does Jentes Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jentes Family 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 Jentes Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc.
- Where is Jentes Family Foundation based?
- Jentes Family Foundation is based in IL.
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