Illinois · Private foundation
Joseph & Bessie Feinberg 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.
- $2.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 97
- Grants FY2025
- 112
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $225,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 112 to 135
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Joseph & Bessie Feinberg 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; $342k 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 | 96 | $2.7M | 13% |
| FY2024 | 112 | $3.3M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 127 | $3.4M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 122 | $3.5M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 135 | $4.0M | 37% |
| FY2020 | 125 | $3.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of Elnet | $1,125,000 | 6 | 4% |
| The National Public Housing Museum | $980,000 | 5 | 48% |
| Connections for the Homeless Inc | $800,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Imagine Englewood If NFP | $517,882 | 6 | 27% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $400,000 | 6 | 0% |
| International Neighborhood Collaborative | $375,000 | 6 | 11% |
| Better Government Association Inc | $375,000 | 6 | 2% |
| The Night Ministry | $365,000 | 6 | 2% |
| The People's Music School | $350,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Girls 4 Science | $306,679 | 6 | 51% |
Show all 133 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 114 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 121 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Joyce Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Pierce Family Charitable Foundation · Reva and David Logan Foundation
How this is measured
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About Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation
- How much does Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation give?
- Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation reported 97 grants totaling $2,691,882 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 112 and 135 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (19%), Housing & Shelter (13%), Health (11%).
- Who are Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Friends of Elnet ($1.1M), The National Public Housing Museum ($980k), Connections for the Homeless Inc ($800k).
- Does Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joseph & Bessie Feinberg 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 Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Polk Bros Foundation Inc, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation based?
- Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation is based in IL.
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