Illinois · Private foundation
Leon and Sharon Kaufman 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.
- $90k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $27,458
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 60
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $280k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations Leon and Sharon Kaufman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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 | 45 | $89k | 60% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $92k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $44k | 53% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $51k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $42k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $103k | 56% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $42k | 41% |
| FY2018 | 60 | $62k | 68% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, 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 | $137,628 | 7 | 0% |
| Jewish Community Centers of Chicago | $74,202 | 9 | 0% |
| Briarwood Scholarship Foundation | $58,541 | 9 | 6% |
| College Bound Opportunities | $19,975 | 7 | 1% |
| Jet - Jewish Education Team Inc | $17,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Central Fund of Israel | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Congregation Beth El | $10,872 | 2 | n/a |
| Hope for the Silent Voices | $9,200 | 4 | 2% |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | $7,855 | 1 | 0% |
| Israel Emergency Alliance | $7,316 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 118 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 98 recipients with no EIN on record ($119k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Leon and Sharon Kaufman 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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · AbbVie Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · Goodman Family Fund · The Atkins Family Foundation · Jbs Foundation · Sacks Family Foundation · Kovler Family Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Rosslevee Charitable Foundation · Peter and Carol Goldman Family Foundation · The Bill Bass Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Leon and Sharon Kaufman Foundation with peer funders
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About Leon and Sharon Kaufman Foundation
- How much does Leon and Sharon Kaufman Foundation give?
- Leon and Sharon Kaufman Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $89,566 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 60 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Leon and Sharon Kaufman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (24%), Education (17%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Leon and Sharon Kaufman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($138k), Jewish Community Centers of Chicago ($74k), Briarwood Scholarship Foundation ($59k).
- Does Leon and Sharon Kaufman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Leon and Sharon Kaufman 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 Leon and Sharon Kaufman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, AbbVie Foundation, Baxter International Foundation.
- Where is Leon and Sharon Kaufman Foundation based?
- Leon and Sharon Kaufman Foundation is based in IL.
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