Illinois · Private foundation
Meyer and Raena Hammerman 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.
- $68k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 116
- Grants FY2025
- 129
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,834
- Organizations funded a year
- 66 to 129
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 18
- Total assets, FY2025
- $378k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Meyer and Raena Hammerman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 | 116 | $68k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 129 | $68k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 102 | $20k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 93 | $20k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 95 | $80k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 66 | $20k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planned Parenthood of Illinois | $10,175 | 6 | 0% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc | $7,480 | 3 | 0% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $7,235 | 4 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Inc | $6,667 | 1 | 0% |
| Americares Foundation Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $5,352 | 6 | 0% |
| Build Inc | $4,950 | 5 | 0% |
| The Wetlands Initiative | $4,840 | 6 | 0% |
| Puppies Behind Bars Inc | $4,807 | 6 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($43k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Meyer and Raena Hammerman 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.
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How this is measured
Compare Meyer and Raena Hammerman Foundation with peer funders
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About Meyer and Raena Hammerman Foundation
- How much does Meyer and Raena Hammerman Foundation give?
- Meyer and Raena Hammerman Foundation reported 116 grants totaling $68,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 66 and 129 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Meyer and Raena Hammerman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (17%), Arts & Culture (15%), Environment (10%).
- Who are Meyer and Raena Hammerman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Planned Parenthood of Illinois ($10k), Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($8k), The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc ($7k).
- Does Meyer and Raena Hammerman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Meyer and Raena Hammerman 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 Meyer and Raena Hammerman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc.
- Where is Meyer and Raena Hammerman Foundation based?
- Meyer and Raena Hammerman Foundation is based in IL.
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