Illinois · Private foundation
Lichtenheld 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.
- $23k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Lichtenheld Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 | 7 | $23k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $81k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $384k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $371k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $126k | 3% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $109k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $109k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $104k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Food Bank Inc | $60,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Emergency Medical Services Coordinating Council of Se Az | $47,000 | 8 | 7% |
| Spectrios Institute for Low Vision | $33,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Habitat for Humanity Tucson Inc | $26,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Leukemia Research Foundation | $25,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Casa of McHenry County Inc | $24,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Youth on Their Own | $24,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Outreach Community Ministries | $20,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Turquoise Trail Charter School Foundation | $15,000 | 8 | 15% |
| Turning Point Inc | $15,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($927k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lichtenheld Family Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Community Foundation for McHenry County · Full Circle Foundation · Ruth Family Foundation · Aptargroup Charitable Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · AbbVie Foundation · UNITED WAY OF GREATER McHENRY COUNTY INC · The Gerhard & Patricia Weiler Family Foundation · Willow Springs Charitable Trust Jenny B Stoddard Trustee · The Bersted Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Kunes Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Lichtenheld Family Foundation
- How much does Lichtenheld Family Foundation give?
- Lichtenheld Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $22,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lichtenheld Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (58%), Health (10%), Food & Nutrition (5%).
- Who are Lichtenheld Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Community Food Bank Inc ($60k), Emergency Medical Services Coordinating Council of Se Az ($47k), Spectrios Institute for Low Vision ($34k).
- Does Lichtenheld Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lichtenheld 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 Lichtenheld Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for McHenry County, Full Circle Foundation, Ruth Family Foundation.
- Where is Lichtenheld Family Foundation based?
- Lichtenheld Family Foundation is based in IL.
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