Illinois · Private foundation
Ronald and Mary Ann Lachman 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.
- $81k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,800
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $31,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Ronald and Mary Ann Lachman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 12 | $65k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $65k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $79k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $88k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $53k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $65k | 60% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $103k | 57% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Graham Bell Montessori School | $161,500 | 6 | 4% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $80,400 | 6 | 0% |
| Growing Home Inc | $39,410 | 3 | 1% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $16,450 | 7 | 0% |
| CUE College | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| America-Israel Friendship League Inc | $9,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $5,400 | 2 | 0% |
| Jewish Council on Urban Affairs | $5,400 | 3 | 0% |
| Rush University Medical Center | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| America Israel Democracy Coalition | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Graham Bell Montessori School | $161,500 | 6 | 4% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $80,400 | 6 | 0% |
| Growing Home Inc | $39,410 | 3 | 1% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $16,450 | 7 | 0% |
| CUE College | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| America-Israel Friendship League Inc | $9,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $5,400 | 2 | 0% |
| Jewish Council on Urban Affairs | $5,400 | 3 | 0% |
| Rush University Medical Center | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| America Israel Democracy Coalition | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Albany Park Theater Project | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Language Matters Academy Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jewish Family Service | $1,980 | 1 | 0% |
| The Global FoodBanking Network | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hillel of San Luis Obispo | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Injustice Watch NFP | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Listen and Talk | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New Horizons Rehabilitation Services Inc | $760 | 1 | 0% |
| The Nora Project | $750 | 1 | 0% |
| Descendants of Holocaust Survivors | $680 | 2 | 0% |
| Parkinson's Foundation Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish Women International | $380 | 2 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $318 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($289k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ronald and Mary Ann Lachman 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.
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How this is measured
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About Ronald and Mary Ann Lachman Foundation
- How much does Ronald and Mary Ann Lachman Foundation give?
- Ronald and Mary Ann Lachman Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $81,003 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ronald and Mary Ann Lachman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (47%), Philanthropy (12%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Ronald and Mary Ann Lachman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Alexander Graham Bell Montessori School ($162k), Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($80k), Growing Home Inc ($39k).
- Does Ronald and Mary Ann Lachman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ronald and Mary Ann Lachman 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 Ronald and Mary Ann Lachman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, The Chicago Community Trust, Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation.
- Where is Ronald and Mary Ann Lachman Foundation based?
- Ronald and Mary Ann Lachman Foundation is based in IL.
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