Illinois · Private foundation
Streska Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $8k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $288k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Streska Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 4 | $8k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $36k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $31k | 64% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $7k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $26k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $7k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| North River Commission | $36,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Well of Mercy Inc | $13,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Mayfair Civic Association | $6,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Northwest Arts Connection | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $2,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Window to the World Communications Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Albany Park Theater Project | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Building Peaceful Bridges | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Youth Services of Glenviewnorthbrook | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Chicago Cabaret Professionals | $500 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| North River Commission | $36,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Well of Mercy Inc | $13,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Mayfair Civic Association | $6,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Northwest Arts Connection | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $2,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Window to the World Communications Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Albany Park Theater Project | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Building Peaceful Bridges | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Youth Services of Glenviewnorthbrook | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Chicago Cabaret Professionals | $500 | 1 | 1% |
| Chicago Public Media Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Circle of Friends | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Samaritan Interfaith Counseling Center | $250 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($49k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Streska 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: The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Streska Family Foundation
- How much does Streska Family Foundation give?
- Streska Family Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $8,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Streska Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (34%), Religion (14%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Streska Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: North River Commission ($36k), Well of Mercy Inc ($13k), Mayfair Civic Association ($6k).
- Does Streska Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Streska Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Streska Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, National Philanthropic Trust, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Streska Family Foundation based?
- Streska Family Foundation is based in IL.
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