Illinois · Private foundation
Law-Ware-Shedd-Murphy 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.
- $100k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $545k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Law-Ware-Shedd-Murphy 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 | 6 | $100k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $108k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $102k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $91k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $81k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $80k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $62k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $71k | 38% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $140,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Illinois Fire Safety Alliance | $46,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Leo High School | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The 100 Club of Illinois | $34,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Window to the World Communications Inc | $33,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Latin School of Chicago | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lake Forest College | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Scripps College | $10,546 | 1 | 0% |
| Lincoln Park Zoological Society | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Global | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $140,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Illinois Fire Safety Alliance | $46,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Leo High School | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The 100 Club of Illinois | $34,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Window to the World Communications Inc | $33,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Latin School of Chicago | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lake Forest College | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Scripps College | $10,546 | 1 | 0% |
| Lincoln Park Zoological Society | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Global | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Traverse Symphony Orchestra D/B/A Traverse City Philharmonic | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chicago Children's Museum | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Masters School | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Sea Lions Inc Dba Pacific Marine Mammal Center | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Omena Historical Society | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($374k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Law-Ware-Shedd-Murphy 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.
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How this is measured
About Law-Ware-Shedd-Murphy Foundation
- How much does Law-Ware-Shedd-Murphy Foundation give?
- Law-Ware-Shedd-Murphy Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $99,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Law-Ware-Shedd-Murphy Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (28%), Human Services (24%), Education (14%).
- Who are Law-Ware-Shedd-Murphy Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Greater Chicago Food Depository ($140k), Illinois Fire Safety Alliance ($46k), Leo High School ($35k).
- Does Law-Ware-Shedd-Murphy Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Law-Ware-Shedd-Murphy 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 Law-Ware-Shedd-Murphy Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Law-Ware-Shedd-Murphy Foundation based?
- Law-Ware-Shedd-Murphy Foundation is based in IL.
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