Illinois · Private foundation
Kovler Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 191
- Grants FY2024
- 186
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,008,149
- Organizations funded a year
- 174 to 197
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 19
- Total assets, FY2024
- $35M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Kovler Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 185 | $5.6M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 186 | $5.8M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 197 | $5.1M | 14% |
| FY2021 | 174 | $4.6M | 10% |
| FY2020 | 174 | $4.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Chicago | $5,880,436 | 5 | 0% |
| Chicago Parks Foundation | $4,900,000 | 4 | 36% |
| Eisenhower Medical Center | $2,111,149 | 4 | 0% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $1,803,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Pcd Ks Foundation | $1,323,333 | 5 | 35% |
| Prostate Cancer Foundation | $870,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Invest for Kids Inc | $816,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Lincoln Park Zoological Society | $794,562 | 4 | 1% |
| Teach for America Inc | $500,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Academy for Global Citizenship Charter School | $400,000 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 207 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Kovler Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 197 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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Circle of Service Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Jarvis Foundation · Sacks Family Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Kovler Family Foundation
- How much does Kovler Family Foundation give?
- Kovler Family Foundation reported 191 grants totaling $5,611,710 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 174 and 197 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Kovler Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (28%), Health (22%), Recreation & Sports (18%).
- Who are Kovler Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: University of Chicago ($5.9M), Chicago Parks Foundation ($4.9M), Eisenhower Medical Center ($2.1M).
- Does Kovler Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kovler Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kovler Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Circle of Service Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Kovler Family Foundation based?
- Kovler Family Foundation is based in IL.
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