Illinois · Private foundation
Kevin Walsh Family 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.
- $655k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2025
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $298,115
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 49
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations Kevin Walsh Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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 | 48 | $435k | 63% |
| FY2024 | 41 | $338k | 39% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $277k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $243k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $159k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $109k | 94% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $35k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loaves & Fishes Community Services | $56,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $50,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Marquette University | $29,476 | 6 | 0% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $24,420 | 4 | 0% |
| A Mothers Wish Inc | $16,500 | 3 | 4% |
| Midwest Shelter for Homeless Veterans Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Connections for Abused Women and Their Children | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| St Juliana Parish | $14,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Old St Patricks Church | $14,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Angels of Hope a Family Cancer Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 80 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 58 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kevin Walsh 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · The Barton Malow Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Kevin Walsh Family Foundation
- How much does Kevin Walsh Family Foundation give?
- Kevin Walsh Family Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $655,252 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 49 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Kevin Walsh Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Recreation & Sports (34%), Religion (6%).
- Who are Kevin Walsh Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Loaves & Fishes Community Services ($56k), Northern Illinois Food Bank ($51k), Marquette University ($29k).
- Does Kevin Walsh Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kevin Walsh Family 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 Kevin Walsh Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation.
- Where is Kevin Walsh Family Foundation based?
- Kevin Walsh Family Foundation is based in IL.
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