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Sidney and Lisa Glenner Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$263k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
38
Grants FY2025
28
Organizations funded FY2024
32%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,300
Largest grant, FY2025
$32,284
Organizations funded a year
24 to 39
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$3.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Sidney and Lisa Glenner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

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ReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving38$263k37%
FY202428$158k32%
FY202324$223k42%
FY202239$205k74%
FY202131$151k0%
FY202031$151kn/a
64% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$401kHuman Services$213kPhilanthropy$207kEducation$71kHealth$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Libenu$182,34663%
Chicago Community Kollel Inc$45,7516n/a
Joan Dachs Bais Yaakov Elementary School-Yeshivas Tiferes Tzvi Inc$37,2413n/a
Telshe Yeshiva-Chicago Rabbinical College Telshe-Chicago$22,5684n/a
Chicago Center for Torah & Chesed Inc$20,3006n/a
Chicago Chesed Fund$14,88950%
Hebrew Theological College$11,6902n/a
Congregation Bmba$10,0002n/a
Chai Lifeline Inc$5,40030%
Ohel Tefillah$4,3002n/a
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All grantees of Sidney and Lisa Glenner Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Libenu$182,34663%
Chicago Community Kollel Inc$45,7516n/a
Joan Dachs Bais Yaakov Elementary School-Yeshivas Tiferes Tzvi Inc$37,2413n/a
Telshe Yeshiva-Chicago Rabbinical College Telshe-Chicago$22,5684n/a
Chicago Center for Torah & Chesed Inc$20,3006n/a
Chicago Chesed Fund$14,88950%
Hebrew Theological College$11,6902n/a
Congregation Bmba$10,0002n/a
Chai Lifeline Inc$5,40030%
Ohel Tefillah$4,3002n/a
Associated Talmud Torahs of Chicago$3,3603n/a
Chicago Mezuzah and Mitzvah Campaign$2,15020%
Chicago Mikvah Association Inc$1,25210%
Kollel Zichron Yitzchok Zev$1,2501n/a
Gemach Harabbonim Nfp$1,0001n/a
Beverly Berzinski Charitable Trust$1,00010%

Plus 77 recipients with no EIN on record ($786k), not named here.

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.

Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family FoundationIL24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Elliott and Ronni Charitable Fdn · Yeshivas Kesser Yonah · Noah Wolff Family Foundation Inc · Dennis and Joyce Ruben Foundation · Lev Zahav NFP · Menachem & Ahuva Shabat Family Foundation INC · Lakewood Cheder School Inc · Walder Foundation · Aviva and David Weinschneider Foundation · Jonathan & Elke Glenner Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Sidney and Lisa Glenner Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Sidney and Lisa Glenner Foundation

How much does Sidney and Lisa Glenner Foundation give?
Sidney and Lisa Glenner Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $263,080 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 39 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Sidney and Lisa Glenner Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (35%), Human Services (19%), Philanthropy (18%).
Who are Sidney and Lisa Glenner Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Libenu ($182k), Chicago Community Kollel Inc ($46k), Joan Dachs Bais Yaakov Elementary School-Yeshivas Tiferes Tzvi Inc ($37k).
Does Sidney and Lisa Glenner Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sidney and Lisa Glenner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sidney and Lisa Glenner Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family Foundation, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Elliott and Ronni Charitable Fdn.
Where is Sidney and Lisa Glenner Foundation based?
Sidney and Lisa Glenner Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 93 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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