Illinois · Private foundation
Siegfried and Marjorie Claussner Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $83k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $18,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 36
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Siegfried and Marjorie Claussner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 30 | $82k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $62k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $71k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $73k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $69k | 3% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $76k | 3% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $65k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $58k | 26% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity Roselle Foundation | $43,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Grace Lutheran Church | $23,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Phil's Friends Nfp | $21,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Amigos En Cristo Inc | $19,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Our Savior Lutheran Church | $18,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Mt Calvary Lutheran Church | $17,000 | 9 | n/a |
| St Edward Central Catholic High School | $12,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Food for the Poor Inc | $12,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Hope Grows International Inc | $11,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Chicago Hope Church | $11,000 | 6 | n/a |
Show all 31 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity Roselle Foundation | $43,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Grace Lutheran Church | $23,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Phil's Friends Nfp | $21,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Amigos En Cristo Inc | $19,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Our Savior Lutheran Church | $18,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Mt Calvary Lutheran Church | $17,000 | 9 | n/a |
| St Edward Central Catholic High School | $12,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Food for the Poor Inc | $12,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Hope Grows International Inc | $11,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Chicago Hope Church | $11,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Moving Hope Foundation | $9,500 | 8 | 11% |
| Allina Health Foundation | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Concordia University Inc | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Public Action to Deliver Shelter Inc D/B/A Hesed House | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Life Center | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Lutheran Bible Translators Inc | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Fountain of Life Lutheran Church | $9,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Amazing Grace Lutheran Church | $8,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Our Savior Lutheran Church | $7,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Lutheran World Relief Inc | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| First Trinity Lutheran Church | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Lutheran Church Missouri Synod | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Our Savior Lutheran Church | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Thrive Community Church Inc | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Hope House Foundation Inc | $1,952 | 1 | 1% |
| Caitlin Duffy Memorial Foundation | $1,500 | 2 | 92% |
| Ray Graham Association for People With Disabilities | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Mile Bluff Medical Center | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Trinity Hope Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Association for Individual Development | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lutheran Life Communities Foundation | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($316k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Siegfried and Marjorie Claussner Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 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: Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Siegfried and Marjorie Claussner Foundation with peer funders
About Siegfried and Marjorie Claussner Foundation
- How much does Siegfried and Marjorie Claussner Foundation give?
- Siegfried and Marjorie Claussner Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $82,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Siegfried and Marjorie Claussner Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (58%), Education (12%), Health (8%).
- Who are Siegfried and Marjorie Claussner Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Trinity Roselle Foundation ($43k), Grace Lutheran Church ($24k), Phil's Friends Nfp ($21k).
- Does Siegfried and Marjorie Claussner Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Siegfried and Marjorie Claussner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Siegfried and Marjorie Claussner Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing, Arthur J Gallagher Foundation.
- Where is Siegfried and Marjorie Claussner Foundation based?
- Siegfried and Marjorie Claussner Foundation is based in IL.
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