Illinois · Private foundation
Origami Works 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.
- $244k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $16,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 19
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations Origami Works Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k 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 | 32 | $244k | 59% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $255k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $143k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $96k | 87% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $67k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $16k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $5k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders | $49,150 | 3 | 1% |
| The Cara Program | $38,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Skills for Chicago | $38,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Alternatives Inc | $37,600 | 4 | 0% |
| New Moms Inc | $32,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Braven Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Chicago Jobs Council | $29,250 | 3 | 1% |
| Claretian Associates Inc | $29,100 | 2 | n/a |
| Kids First Chicago for Education | $26,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Girls in the Game Nfp | $17,500 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($205k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Origami Works 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: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Chicago Foundation for Women · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · The Allstate Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Christopher Family Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation
How this is measured
About Origami Works Foundation
- How much does Origami Works Foundation give?
- Origami Works Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $243,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 19 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Origami Works Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (28%), Youth Development (18%), Education (13%).
- Who are Origami Works Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Vocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders ($49k), The Cara Program ($39k), Skills for Chicago ($39k).
- Does Origami Works Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Origami Works 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 Origami Works Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Polk Bros Foundation Inc, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Origami Works Foundation based?
- Origami Works Foundation is based in IL.
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