Illinois · Private foundation
Philip E Fess 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.
- $56k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,400
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $976k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Philip E Fess Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% 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 | 10 | $56k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $52k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $55k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $63k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $61k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $58k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $60k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $61k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feeding San Diego | $73,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Fenix Family Health Center | $62,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Top Box Foods | $57,000 | 8 | 2% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $55,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Brain Tumor Association | $39,000 | 7 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $17,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Bishop School | $14,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Anti-Cruelty Society | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Black Mountain Home for Children Youth and Families Inc | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($87k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Philip E Fess 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 San Diego Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About Philip E Fess Family Foundation
- How much does Philip E Fess Family Foundation give?
- Philip E Fess Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $56,270 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Philip E Fess Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (35%), Health (34%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Philip E Fess Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Feeding San Diego ($73k), Fenix Family Health Center ($62k), Top Box Foods ($57k).
- Does Philip E Fess Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Philip E Fess 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 Philip E Fess Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, Sempra Foundation, Rancho Santa Fe Foundation.
- Where is Philip E Fess Family Foundation based?
- Philip E Fess Family Foundation is based in IL.
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