Illinois · Private foundation
Kindness Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $35k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 12
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Kindness Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 3 | $35k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $41k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $78k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $62k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $87k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $73k | 78% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $127k | 58% |
| FY2017 | 5 | $103k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Sunshine Kids Foundation | $384,365 | 8 | 2% |
| Homeservices Foundation for Housing Equity | $25,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Connections for the Homeless Inc | $3,900 | 2 | 0% |
| Northfield Township Food Pantry | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New Trier Township Angel Fund Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Beacon Place NFP | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Glen Ellyn Food Pantry | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| People's Resource Center | $507 | 1 | 0% |
| The Anti-Cruelty Society | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Sunshine Kids Foundation | $384,365 | 8 | 2% |
| Homeservices Foundation for Housing Equity | $25,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Connections for the Homeless Inc | $3,900 | 2 | 0% |
| Northfield Township Food Pantry | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New Trier Township Angel Fund Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Beacon Place NFP | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Glen Ellyn Food Pantry | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| People's Resource Center | $507 | 1 | 0% |
| The Anti-Cruelty Society | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Respiratory Health Association | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($177k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kindness 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 · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Kindness Foundation
- How much does Kindness Foundation give?
- Kindness Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $35,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Kindness Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (66%), Housing & Shelter (31%), Food & Nutrition (2%).
- Who are Kindness Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Sunshine Kids Foundation ($384k), Homeservices Foundation for Housing Equity ($25k), Greater Chicago Food Depository ($6k).
- Does Kindness Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kindness Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kindness Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
- Where is Kindness Foundation based?
- Kindness Foundation is based in IL.
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