Illinois · Private foundation
Shade 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.
- $160k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $61,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 24
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $427k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Shade Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 | 31 | $160k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $134k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $100k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $150k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $136k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $101k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $56k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union League Boys and Girls Clubs | $314,514 | 7 | 1% |
| Miami University | $124,386 | 7 | n/a |
| Service League of Crystal Lake Inc | $63,271 | 7 | 7% |
| Ocean Reef Chapel Foundation Inc | $29,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Armed Forces Council of Chicago | $21,907 | 5 | 10% |
| Immanuel Lutheran Church | $20,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Friends of the Folds of Honor Foundation | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Luminarts Cultural Foundation the Union League Club of Chicago | $12,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Illinois Railway Museum Inc | $10,800 | 5 | 0% |
| First Congregational Church | $10,500 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($170k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shade 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: AbbVie Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Shade Family Foundation
- How much does Shade Family Foundation give?
- Shade Family Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $160,345 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 24 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Shade Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (35%), Education (27%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Shade Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Union League Boys and Girls Clubs ($315k), Miami University ($124k), Service League of Crystal Lake Inc ($63k).
- Does Shade Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shade 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 Shade Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, Arthur J Gallagher Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Shade Family Foundation based?
- Shade Family Foundation is based in IL.
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