Illinois · Private foundation
Snyder 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.
- $55k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 26
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $800k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Snyder 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; $500 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 | 28 | $55k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $48k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $51k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $52k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwestern University | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Gulfshore Playhouse Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc | $9,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Big Shoulders Fund | $9,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Paws Chicago | $7,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Shriners' Hospital for Children | $6,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $6,200 | 4 | 0% |
| A Silver Lining Foundation | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Marine Toys for Tots Foundation | $5,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($64k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Snyder 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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Snyder Family Foundation
- How much does Snyder Family Foundation give?
- Snyder Family Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $54,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 26 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Snyder Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (15%), Education (12%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are Snyder Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Northwestern University ($25k), Gulfshore Playhouse Inc ($20k), Make-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc ($10k).
- Does Snyder Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Snyder 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 Snyder Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Snyder Family Foundation based?
- Snyder Family Foundation is based in IL.
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