Illinois · Private foundation
Karen and Jason Sussman Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $69k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $18,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $907k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Karen and Jason Sussman Family Foundation 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; $500 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 | 13 | $69k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $71k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $58k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $56k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $47k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $70k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $59k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $72k | 32% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $112,500 | 9 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $86,200 | 7 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $75,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Endeavor Health Clinical Operations | $16,850 | 8 | 0% |
| Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation | $13,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Cancer Wellness Center | $6,450 | 7 | 0% |
| Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $4,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc | $3,750 | 8 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $3,500 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($233k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Karen and Jason Sussman Family 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Karen and Jason Sussman Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Karen and Jason Sussman Family Foundation
- How much does Karen and Jason Sussman Family Foundation give?
- Karen and Jason Sussman Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $69,445 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Karen and Jason Sussman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (38%), Philanthropy (20%), Religion (11%).
- Who are Karen and Jason Sussman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($113k), American Cancer Society Inc ($86k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($76k).
- Does Karen and Jason Sussman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Karen and Jason Sussman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Karen and Jason Sussman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Karen and Jason Sussman Family Foundation based?
- Karen and Jason Sussman Family Foundation is based in IL.
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