Illinois · Private foundation
Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $300k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 58
- Grants FY2024
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $143,286
- Organizations funded a year
- 46 to 65
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 54 | $293k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $296k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 53 | $275k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $139k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 58 | $270k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 59 | $142k | 42% |
| FY2018 | 65 | $184k | 52% |
| FY2017 | 57 | $163k | n/a |
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 FY2024, 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 | $792,570 | 8 | 0% |
| The Ember Foundation | $51,768 | 7 | 2% |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $37,680 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Illinois Foundation | $36,650 | 8 | 0% |
| Israel Emergency Alliance | $22,986 | 8 | 0% |
| B'Nai B'Rith Youth Organization | $21,800 | 5 | 0% |
| Torahub | $20,080 | 8 | n/a |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | $13,902 | 5 | 0% |
| Ravinia Festival Association | $13,700 | 5 | 0% |
| Jet - Jewish Education Team Inc | $12,636 | 6 | 1% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 82 recipients with no EIN on record ($592k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Maury and Nancy Fertig Family 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 · Lev Zahav NFP · Hochberg Family Foundation · Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Elliott and Ronni Charitable Fdn · Charles and M R Shapiro Foundation Inc · Crain-Maling Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Aj & Sl Stern Family Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation
How this is measured
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About Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation
- How much does Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation give?
- Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation reported 58 grants totaling $299,861 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 65 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (59%), Religion (13%), Education (9%).
- Who are Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($793k), The Ember Foundation ($52k), Friends of United Hatzalah Inc ($38k).
- Does Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Lev Zahav NFP, Hochberg Family Foundation.
- Where is Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation based?
- Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation is based in IL.
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