Illinois · Private foundation
Sonja & F Conrad Fischer Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $553k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2024
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $9.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 26% of the organizations Sonja & F Conrad Fischer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 14 | $553k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $213k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $204k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $235k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $1.2M | 17% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $233k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $316k | 29% |
| FY2017 | 31 | $473k | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Joffrey Ballet | $1,271,688 | 6 | 4% |
| Chicago Shakespeare Theater | $520,079 | 6 | 1% |
| Kalamazoo College | $255,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Ray of Hope Cancer Foundation | $200,000 | 2 | 14% |
| Trustees of Deerfield Academy | $117,730 | 6 | 0% |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $105,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Ray of Hope Inc | $100,000 | 4 | n/a |
| University of Chicago | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $76,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Lyric Opera of Chicago | $72,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($382k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sonja & F Conrad Fischer 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: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Sonja & F Conrad Fischer Foundation with peer funders
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About Sonja & F Conrad Fischer Foundation
- How much does Sonja & F Conrad Fischer Foundation give?
- Sonja & F Conrad Fischer Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $552,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Sonja & F Conrad Fischer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (58%), Education (17%), Health (7%).
- Who are Sonja & F Conrad Fischer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Joffrey Ballet ($1.3M), Chicago Shakespeare Theater ($520k), Kalamazoo College ($255k).
- Does Sonja & F Conrad Fischer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sonja & F Conrad Fischer Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sonja & F Conrad Fischer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is Sonja & F Conrad Fischer Foundation based?
- Sonja & F Conrad Fischer Foundation is based in IL.
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