Illinois · Private foundation
Schwan 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.
- $108k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $55,205
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $829k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Schwan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 9 | $108k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $78k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $79k | 80% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $46k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $63k | 65% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $287k | 83% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $31k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $33k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Community Impact Fund | $260,000 | 2 | 42% |
| Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research | $13,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Chicago Youth Centers | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Children's Hemiplegia and Stroke Association | $4,271 | 1 | 6% |
| Camp Kesem National | $1,027 | 1 | 0% |
| Start Early | $1,013 | 2 | 0% |
| The Digdeep Right to Water Project | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Illinois Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Healthnet Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $800 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Community Impact Fund | $260,000 | 2 | 42% |
| Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research | $13,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Chicago Youth Centers | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Children's Hemiplegia and Stroke Association | $4,271 | 1 | 6% |
| Camp Kesem National | $1,027 | 1 | 0% |
| Start Early | $1,013 | 2 | 0% |
| The Digdeep Right to Water Project | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Illinois Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Healthnet Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $800 | 3 | 0% |
| Project N95 Inc | $780 | 2 | 0% |
| Humane World for Animals Inc | $756 | 2 | 0% |
| Glen Ellyn Food Pantry | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Moody Church | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Morton Arboretum | $390 | 1 | 0% |
| The Ablegamers Foundation Inc | $162 | 1 | 0% |
| Team Bright Side Inc | $105 | 1 | 0% |
| St Baldrick's Foundation Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Anchor House Foundation Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Musicares Foundation Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Globalgiving Foundation Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| 305 Pink Pack Inc | $90 | 1 | n/a |
| The Anti-Cruelty Society | $20 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($433k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Schwan Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 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: AbbVie Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Schwan Family Foundation
- How much does Schwan Family Foundation give?
- Schwan Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $107,923 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Schwan Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (42%), Education (22%), Health (19%).
- Who are Schwan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Community Impact Fund ($260k), Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research ($14k), Chicago Youth Centers ($5k).
- Does Schwan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Schwan 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 Schwan Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, Arthur J Gallagher Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
- Where is Schwan Family Foundation based?
- Schwan Family Foundation is based in IL.
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