Massachusetts · Private foundation
Minow Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $960k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2024
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $75,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 38
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Minow Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k 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 | 9 | $810k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $1.1M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $269k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $180k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $188k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Window to the World Communications Inc | $650,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Chicago History Museum | $395,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Northwestern University | $225,000 | 4 | 0% |
| WGBH Educational Foundation | $120,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Rand Corporation | $103,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Chicago Sinai Congregation | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Shriver Center on Poverty Law | $53,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Ravinia Festival Association | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Millennium Park Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($680k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Minow 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: The Sidley Austin Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · California Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
About Minow Family Foundation
- How much does Minow Family Foundation give?
- Minow Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $960,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 38 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Minow Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (44%), Recreation & Sports (13%), Education (12%).
- Who are Minow Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Window to the World Communications Inc ($650k), Chicago History Museum ($395k), Northwestern University ($225k).
- Does Minow Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Minow Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Minow Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sidley Austin Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Lloyd a Fry Foundation.
- Where is Minow Family Foundation based?
- Minow Family Foundation is based in MA.
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