Illinois · Private foundation
Rydell 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.
- $93k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 63%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $29,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $908k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 63% of the organizations Rydell Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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 | $93k | 42% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $88k | 63% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $55k | 45% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $51k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $40k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $76k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $84k | 63% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $129k | 81% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Marks Lutheran Church | $123,850 | 6 | n/a |
| United Way of Rock River Valley | $112,250 | 6 | 1% |
| St Mark Lutheran Church | $95,300 | 3 | n/a |
| Heartland Community Church | $70,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The Lincoln Academy of Illinois | $50,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Rosecrance Foundation Inc | $26,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Rockford University | $25,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Rockford Park District Foundation | $16,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Rockford Rescue Mission Ministries | $15,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Life Decisions Inc | $12,500 | 2 | 3% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($100k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rydell 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: Community Foundation of Northern IL · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · Blazer Foundation · Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation · John & Linda Anderson Charitable Foundation · Jeffrey R Anderson Charitable Foundation · John T Wolf Charitable Trust II · Guy Reno Family Foundation · United Way of Rock River Valley
How this is measured
About Rydell Family Foundation
- How much does Rydell Family Foundation give?
- Rydell Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $93,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Rydell Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (42%), Education (17%), Philanthropy (15%).
- Who are Rydell Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Marks Lutheran Church ($124k), United Way of Rock River Valley ($112k), St Mark Lutheran Church ($95k).
- Does Rydell Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rydell 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 Rydell Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Northern IL, Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008, The Kjellstrom Family Foundation.
- Where is Rydell Family Foundation based?
- Rydell Family Foundation is based in IL.
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