Illinois · Private foundation
Sam & Mary Palumbo Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $466k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2024
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $84,150
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Sam & Mary Palumbo Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $183k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 42 | $456k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $331k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $280k | 53% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $227k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $224k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $143k | 54% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $266k | 59% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $160k | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elmhurst University | $181,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Infant Welfare Society of Chicago | $84,150 | 1 | 1% |
| Northwestern University | $75,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Marquette University | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Loyola University of Chicago | $64,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Turning Pointe Autism Foundation | $55,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $50,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Depaul University | $47,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston College | $36,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Ray Graham Association for People With Disabilities | $36,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 66 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($774k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sam & Mary Palumbo Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Coleman Foundation Inc · Goldenberg Max Tw M G Foundation · The Dupage Community Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Ernest Wentcher Educational Fund · Marquette Bank Education Foundation · Best Walter & Edith Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Sam & Mary Palumbo Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Sam & Mary Palumbo Family Foundation
- How much does Sam & Mary Palumbo Family Foundation give?
- Sam & Mary Palumbo Family Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $466,150 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Sam & Mary Palumbo Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (75%), Health (13%), Recreation & Sports (4%).
- Who are Sam & Mary Palumbo Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Elmhurst University ($181k), Infant Welfare Society of Chicago ($84k), Northwestern University ($75k).
- Does Sam & Mary Palumbo Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sam & Mary Palumbo Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sam & Mary Palumbo Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Coleman Foundation Inc, Goldenberg Max Tw M G Foundation, The Dupage Community Foundation.
- Where is Sam & Mary Palumbo Family Foundation based?
- Sam & Mary Palumbo Family Foundation is based in IL.
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