Illinois · Private foundation
Joseph and Helen Komarek 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.
- $62k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 35
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- 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 Joseph and Helen Komarek Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 35 | $62k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $62k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $67k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $75k | 3% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $66k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $56k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago Youth Programs Inc | $29,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Cradles to Crayons Inc | $27,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $21,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Willow House | $18,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $14,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Connections for Abused Women and Their Children | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Family Rescue Inc | $11,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Shelter Inc | $11,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Jewish Child and Family Services | $10,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Christopher House | $5,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($192k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joseph and Helen Komarek 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: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Trustmark Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Greater Chicago Food Depository · The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Joseph and Helen Komarek Foundation with peer funders
About Joseph and Helen Komarek Foundation
- How much does Joseph and Helen Komarek Foundation give?
- Joseph and Helen Komarek Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $62,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 35 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Joseph and Helen Komarek Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (25%), Human Services (20%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Joseph and Helen Komarek Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Chicago Youth Programs Inc ($29k), Cradles to Crayons Inc ($27k), Anti-Defamation League ($21k).
- Does Joseph and Helen Komarek Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joseph and Helen Komarek 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 and Helen Komarek Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, AbbVie Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
- Where is Joseph and Helen Komarek Foundation based?
- Joseph and Helen Komarek Foundation is based in IL.
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