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Jonathan & Elke Glenner Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$176k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2025
21
Organizations funded FY2024
62%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,450
Largest grant, FY2025
$66,357
Organizations funded a year
16 to 21
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 62% of the organizations Jonathan & Elke Glenner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

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RenewedFirst-time

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

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HealthOther
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
FY2025still arriving22$176k32%
FY202421$132k62%
FY202316$98k81%
FY202220$143k80%
FY202117$78k59%
FY202016$56kn/a
62% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$281kReligion$263kHuman Services$9kInternational$8kHealth$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kollel Ateres Ami$66,7805n/a
Chicago Community Kollel Inc$32,2504n/a
Chicago Chesed Fund$7,53040%
Telshe Yeshiva-Chicago Rabbinical College Telshe-Chicago$7,1203n/a
Congregation Bmba$6,5002n/a
Chicago Mikvah Association Inc$5,04040%
Chicago Center for Torah & Chesed Inc$1,6901n/a
Chai Lifeline Inc$1,36010%
Kedusha Inc$1,0001n/a
Ner Naftali Inc$1,0001n/a
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All grantees of Jonathan & Elke Glenner Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kollel Ateres Ami$66,7805n/a
Chicago Community Kollel Inc$32,2504n/a
Chicago Chesed Fund$7,53040%
Telshe Yeshiva-Chicago Rabbinical College Telshe-Chicago$7,1203n/a
Congregation Bmba$6,5002n/a
Chicago Mikvah Association Inc$5,04040%
Chicago Center for Torah & Chesed Inc$1,6901n/a
Chai Lifeline Inc$1,36010%
Kedusha Inc$1,0001n/a
Ner Naftali Inc$1,0001n/a
Kehilas Meor Yisroel$5401n/a

Plus 64 recipients with no EIN on record ($550k), not named here.

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.

Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family FoundationIL17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Sidney and Lisa Glenner Foundation · Daniel & Chayala Glenner Foundation · Dennis and Joyce Ruben Foundation · Menachem & Ahuva Shabat Family Foundation INC · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Jonathan & Elke Glenner Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Jonathan & Elke Glenner Foundation

How much does Jonathan & Elke Glenner Foundation give?
Jonathan & Elke Glenner Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $175,951 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Jonathan & Elke Glenner Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (41%), Religion (39%), Human Services (1%).
Who are Jonathan & Elke Glenner Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Kollel Ateres Ami ($67k), Chicago Community Kollel Inc ($32k), Chicago Chesed Fund ($8k).
Does Jonathan & Elke Glenner Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jonathan & Elke Glenner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jonathan & Elke Glenner Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family Foundation, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Sidney and Lisa Glenner Foundation.
Where is Jonathan & Elke Glenner Foundation based?
Jonathan & Elke Glenner Foundation 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 75 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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