Illinois · Private foundation
Moving Lives Ahead 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.
- $632k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
87% of Moving Lives Ahead Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $551,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $551,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 11
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Moving Lives Ahead Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 1 | $80k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $7k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $71k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $103k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $155k | 73% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $10k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $193k | 25% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $182k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Hearing Impaired Hockey Assn Inc | $70,000 | 2 | 22% |
| Lake Forest Country Day School | $70,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Park Community Church | $60,080 | 2 | n/a |
| Career Transitions Center of Chicago | $50,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Move for Hunger Inc | $10,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Indiana University Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Golden Apple Foundation for Excellence in Teaching | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Urban Initiatives Inc | $6,400 | 1 | 0% |
| Elawa Farm Foundation | $6,100 | 1 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Hearing Impaired Hockey Assn Inc | $70,000 | 2 | 22% |
| Lake Forest Country Day School | $70,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Park Community Church | $60,080 | 2 | n/a |
| Career Transitions Center of Chicago | $50,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Move for Hunger Inc | $10,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Indiana University Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Golden Apple Foundation for Excellence in Teaching | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Urban Initiatives Inc | $6,400 | 1 | 0% |
| Elawa Farm Foundation | $6,100 | 1 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| NAMI Chicago | $600 | 1 | 0% |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($501k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Moving Lives Ahead 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: Baird Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Moving Lives Ahead Foundation
- How much does Moving Lives Ahead Foundation give?
- Moving Lives Ahead Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $631,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Moving Lives Ahead Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (76%), Education (16%), Religion (2%).
- Who are Moving Lives Ahead Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Hearing Impaired Hockey Assn Inc ($70k), Lake Forest Country Day School ($70k), Park Community Church ($60k).
- Does Moving Lives Ahead Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Moving Lives Ahead 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 Moving Lives Ahead Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baird Foundation Inc, The Chicago Community Trust, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc.
- Where is Moving Lives Ahead Foundation based?
- Moving Lives Ahead Foundation is based in IL.
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