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Joel & Carol Honigberg Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,478
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,478
Organizations funded a year
3 to 39
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Joel & Carol Honigberg Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
Arts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$5k100%
FY20233$30k100%
FY20223$3k100%
FY201939$79kn/a
82% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$88kEducation$7kHealth$3kPhilanthropy$750Religion$700Human Services$600International$500Animals$400Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Pilgrim Chamber Players$15,000122%
Ravinia Festival Association$10,00010%
Merit School of Music$5,00010%

Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($87k), not named here.

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About Joel & Carol Honigberg Fund

How much does Joel & Carol Honigberg Fund give?
Joel & Carol Honigberg Fund reported 1 grants totaling $5,478 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 39 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Joel & Carol Honigberg Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (44%), Education (3%), Health (2%).
Who are Joel & Carol Honigberg Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Pilgrim Chamber Players ($15k), Ravinia Festival Association ($10k), Merit School of Music ($5k).
Does Joel & Carol Honigberg Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Joel & Carol Honigberg Fund 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.
Where is Joel & Carol Honigberg Fund based?
Joel & Carol Honigberg Fund is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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