Illinois · Community foundation
Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation
Unite community members to mobilize resources to advance a racially just society and equitable outcomes for residents of oak park, river forest and surrounding communities.
- $4.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 73
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 63
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $535,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 59 to 91
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $61M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k 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 | 73 | $2.6M | 23% |
| FY2024 | 63 | $1.7M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 72 | $1.9M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 70 | $2.1M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 91 | $2.1M | 45% |
| FY2019 | 59 | $1.4M | 24% |
| FY2018 | 59 | $1.5M | 31% |
| FY2017 | 61 | $1.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Heph Foundation | $1,804,832 | 5 | 77% |
| Chicago Public Media Inc | $980,350 | 8 | 0% |
| Ulta Beauty Charitable Foundation | $865,321 | 1 | n/a |
| Seven Generations Ahead | $825,318 | 8 | 16% |
| Animal Care League | $774,247 | 8 | 10% |
| Thrive Counseling Center | $710,177 | 8 | 4% |
| Lawrence Technological University | $645,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Frank Lloyd Wright Trust | $518,303 | 8 | 3% |
| Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry | $325,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Housing Forward | $274,843 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 186 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 134 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Good Heart Work Smart Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Healthy Communities Foundation · Westlake Health Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · The Christopher Family Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women
How this is measured
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About Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation
- How much does Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation give?
- Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation reported 73 itemized grants totaling $2,624,168, out of $4,335,727 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 59 and 91 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (15%), Education (13%), Health (12%).
- Who are Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Heph Foundation ($1.8M), Chicago Public Media Inc ($980k), Ulta Beauty Charitable Foundation ($865k).
- Does Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Good Heart Work Smart Foundation, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, Healthy Communities Foundation.
- Where is Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation based?
- Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation is based in IL.
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