Illinois · Private foundation
Lorelei Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $71k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $17,300
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations Lorelei Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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 | 16 | $61k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $60k | 48% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $106k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $75k | 48% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $118k | 41% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $88k | 73% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $75k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $49k | 60% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christ Church of Oak Brook | $145,355 | 9 | n/a |
| The Bev Hartig Huntingtons Disease Foundation Inc | $117,500 | 6 | 12% |
| Giving Dupage | $38,500 | 6 | 28% |
| Chamber Music Central | $27,500 | 8 | 19% |
| Huntingtons Disease Society of America Inc | $23,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Folds of Honor Foundation | $18,250 | 2 | 0% |
| One World Surgery | $16,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Psycho Tour | $13,500 | 5 | n/a |
| MidAmerica Service Dogs Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 63 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($183k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lorelei Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 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: The Chicago Community Trust · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Lorelei Foundation Inc
- How much does Lorelei Foundation Inc give?
- Lorelei Foundation Inc reported 17 grants totaling $71,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lorelei Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (23%), Health (21%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Lorelei Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Christ Church of Oak Brook ($145k), The Bev Hartig Huntingtons Disease Foundation Inc ($118k), Giving Dupage ($39k).
- Does Lorelei Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lorelei Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lorelei Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Arthur J Gallagher Foundation, American Endowment Foundation.
- Where is Lorelei Foundation Inc based?
- Lorelei Foundation Inc is based in IL.
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