Illinois · Private foundation
John R Halligan Charitable Fund
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.
- $2.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 112
- Grants FY2025
- 111
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $13,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $274,062
- Organizations funded a year
- 92 to 111
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations John R Halligan Charitable Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% 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 | 112 | $2.8M | 3% |
| FY2024 | 111 | $2.8M | 6% |
| FY2023 | 105 | $2.5M | 4% |
| FY2022 | 101 | $2.4M | 5% |
| FY2021 | 102 | $2.4M | 1% |
| FY2020 | 101 | $2.1M | 3% |
| FY2019 | 99 | $2.1M | 8% |
| FY2018 | 92 | $2.0M | 7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lyric Opera of Chicago | $2,202,903 | 9 | 1% |
| Chicago History Museum | $760,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Hawaii Opera Theatre | $740,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Hawaiian Humane Society | $740,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Honolulu Museum of Art | $710,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Hawaii Public Television Foundation Dba Pbs Hawaii | $685,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Bishop Museum | $620,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $465,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Chicago Opera Theater | $445,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Diamond Head Theatre | $442,000 | 9 | 1% |
Show all 86 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John R Halligan Charitable Fund 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: Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Atherton Family Foundation · The Cades Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Kosasa Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Hawaii Community Reinvestment Corporation · Hawaii Council for Humanities · Cooke Foundation Limited · Tradewind Group Foundation
How this is measured
About John R Halligan Charitable Fund
- How much does John R Halligan Charitable Fund give?
- John R Halligan Charitable Fund reported 112 grants totaling $2,835,562 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 92 and 111 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does John R Halligan Charitable Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (70%), Animals (13%), Science & Tech (3%).
- Who are John R Halligan Charitable Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lyric Opera of Chicago ($2.2M), Chicago History Museum ($760k), Hawaii Opera Theatre ($740k).
- Does John R Halligan Charitable Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John R Halligan Charitable 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John R Halligan Charitable Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, J Watumull Fund.
- Where is John R Halligan Charitable Fund based?
- John R Halligan Charitable Fund is based in IL.
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