Illinois · Private foundation
Sagalyn Family Fund
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.
- $174k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 52%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $26,900
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $983k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 52% of the organizations Sagalyn Family Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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 | 27 | $174k | 63% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $170k | 52% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $143k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $154k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $156k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $134k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $124k | 46% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $114k | 56% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groundswell Community Mural Projectinc | $90,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Vocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders | $84,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Mikva Challenge Grant Foundation | $77,500 | 4 | 1% |
| The Phillips Collection | $71,320 | 8 | 0% |
| Maine Boys to Men | $61,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Trevor Project Inc | $42,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Essential Partners Inc | $41,400 | 3 | 1% |
| Keep Rising to the Top | $38,500 | 8 | 8% |
| Braver AngelsInc | $30,500 | 2 | 1% |
| New York University | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 82 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($279k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sagalyn Family Fund 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: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Ford Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Tides Foundation · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation
How this is measured
About Sagalyn Family Fund
- How much does Sagalyn Family Fund give?
- Sagalyn Family Fund reported 27 grants totaling $174,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sagalyn Family Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (21%), Arts & Culture (19%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Sagalyn Family Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Groundswell Community Mural Projectinc ($91k), Vocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders ($84k), Mikva Challenge Grant Foundation ($78k).
- Does Sagalyn Family Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sagalyn Family Fund 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 Sagalyn Family Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Polk Bros Foundation Inc.
- Where is Sagalyn Family Fund based?
- Sagalyn Family Fund is based in IL.
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