Illinois · Private foundation
Martin and Patricia Jahn 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.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,042,138
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $39M
- 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 Martin and Patricia Jahn 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 | 7 | $1.6M | 43% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $2.1M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $777k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $1.2M | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $360k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $217k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $282k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $184k | 0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| King-Bruwaert House | $1,030,702 | 3 | 4% |
| The Corning Museum of Glass | $329,988 | 3 | 1% |
| Hinsdale United Methodist Church | $312,672 | 4 | n/a |
| McLaren Northern Michigan Foundation | $233,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Bridge Communities Inc | $210,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Midwest Shelter for Homeless Veterans Inc | $210,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Mackinaw Area Historical Society | $60,000 | 3 | 33% |
| St Pauls United Methodist Church | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mackinac Associates | $33,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Armed Forces Council of Chicago | $30,000 | 3 | 6% |
Show all 22 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Martin and Patricia Jahn Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 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.
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How this is measured
Compare Martin and Patricia Jahn Foundation with peer funders
About Martin and Patricia Jahn Foundation
- How much does Martin and Patricia Jahn Foundation give?
- Martin and Patricia Jahn Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $1,934,513 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Martin and Patricia Jahn Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Philanthropy (16%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Martin and Patricia Jahn Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: King-Bruwaert House ($1.0M), The Corning Museum of Glass ($330k), Hinsdale United Methodist Church ($313k).
- Does Martin and Patricia Jahn Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Martin and Patricia Jahn 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 Martin and Patricia Jahn Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, American Endowment Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Martin and Patricia Jahn Foundation based?
- Martin and Patricia Jahn Foundation is based in IL.
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