Illinois · Private foundation
Mickelson 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.
- $2k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 6
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $46k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Mickelson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 71% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 29% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $2k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $4k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $3k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $4k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $1k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $3k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $8k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $8k | 100% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council | $7,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Francis W Parker School | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Collaboration for Early Childhood | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Center on Halsted | $2,636 | 3 | 0% |
| Himalayan Cataract Project Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Family Equality | $1,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Howard Brown Health Center | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Temple Sholom of Chicago | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wikimedia Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council | $7,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Francis W Parker School | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Collaboration for Early Childhood | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Center on Halsted | $2,636 | 3 | 0% |
| Himalayan Cataract Project Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Family Equality | $1,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Howard Brown Health Center | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Temple Sholom of Chicago | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wikimedia Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Shedd Aquarium Society | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| 51st Street Business Association | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($7k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mickelson 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
About Mickelson Family Foundation
- How much does Mickelson Family Foundation give?
- Mickelson Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $1,936 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mickelson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Community Improvement (23%), Health (21%).
- Who are Mickelson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council ($8k), Francis W Parker School ($6k), Collaboration for Early Childhood ($3k).
- Does Mickelson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mickelson 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 Mickelson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Mickelson Family Foundation based?
- Mickelson Family Foundation is based in IL.
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