Illinois · Private foundation
Stephen and Christy King 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.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 70%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 70% of the organizations Stephen and Christy King Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $264k 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 | 19 | $1.6M | 47% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $1.4M | 70% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $631k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $678k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $505k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $621k | 58% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $450k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $139k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Shoulders Fund | $1,969,604 | 8 | 1% |
| Catholic Charities Inc | $806,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Loyola Academy | $500,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Central Catholic High School | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Illinois Foundation | $223,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hope Ignites Chicago | $215,000 | 4 | 2% |
| The Academy at St Joan of Arc | $145,000 | 5 | 21% |
| Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us | $105,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chicago Cred Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chicago Jesuit Academy | $59,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Stephen and Christy King Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 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: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Greater Chicago Food Depository · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · AbbVie Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Stephen and Christy King Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Stephen and Christy King Family Foundation
- How much does Stephen and Christy King Family Foundation give?
- Stephen and Christy King Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $1,657,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Stephen and Christy King Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (58%), Human Services (14%), Religion (8%).
- Who are Stephen and Christy King Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Big Shoulders Fund ($2.0M), Catholic Charities Inc ($806k), Loyola Academy ($500k).
- Does Stephen and Christy King Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 70% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Stephen and Christy King 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 Stephen and Christy King Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, Robert R McCormick Foundation.
- Where is Stephen and Christy King Family Foundation based?
- Stephen and Christy King Family Foundation is based in IL.
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