Illinois · Private foundation
Sbb Research Group 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.
- $320k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 75
- Grants FY2025
- 66
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 68%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 52 to 66
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 68% of the organizations Sbb Research Group Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k 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 | 73 | $315k | 59% |
| FY2024 | 66 | $207k | 68% |
| FY2023 | 59 | $234k | 68% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $151k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 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, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Chicago Scholars Foundation | $66,641 | 4 | 1% |
| Surge for Water Inc | $42,950 | 4 | 41% |
| Heartland Animal Shelter Nfp | $42,010 | 4 | 2% |
| Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center | $40,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Andrew Weishar Foundation | $27,584 | 4 | 1% |
| Automotive Mentoring Group Inc | $20,972 | 4 | 5% |
| The Dragonfly Foundation | $18,063 | 4 | 1% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $17,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Dkms | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The Outreach House | $10,800 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 144 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($139k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sbb Research Group Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 112 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: Circle of Service Foundation · Give N Kind · The Chicago Community Trust · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · The Lake County Community Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Trustmark Foundation · First Bank Chicago Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women
How this is measured
About Sbb Research Group Foundation
- How much does Sbb Research Group Foundation give?
- Sbb Research Group Foundation reported 75 grants totaling $319,642 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 52 and 66 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Sbb Research Group Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Health (15%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Sbb Research Group Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: The Chicago Scholars Foundation ($67k), Surge for Water Inc ($43k), Heartland Animal Shelter Nfp ($42k).
- Does Sbb Research Group Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 68% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sbb Research Group 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 Sbb Research Group Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Circle of Service Foundation, Give N Kind, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Sbb Research Group Foundation based?
- Sbb Research Group Foundation is based in IL.
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