Illinois · Private foundation
Sumac 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.
- $415k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $59,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Sumac Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 17 | $415k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $375k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $360k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $263k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $305k | 58% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $348k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $318k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $270k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maldef - Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund | $423,500 | 8 | 1% |
| The Resurrection Project | $255,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Erie Neighborhood House | $235,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $185,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Casa Central Social Services Corporation | $160,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Gala Inc Grupo de Artistas Latino Americanos | $128,000 | 3 | 3% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $105,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Beyond Hunger | $52,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition | $31,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sarah's Inn | $27,000 | 7 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maldef - Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund | $423,500 | 8 | 1% |
| The Resurrection Project | $255,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Erie Neighborhood House | $235,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $185,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Casa Central Social Services Corporation | $160,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Gala Inc Grupo de Artistas Latino Americanos | $128,000 | 3 | 3% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $105,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Beyond Hunger | $52,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition | $31,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sarah's Inn | $27,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Abused and Homeless Children's Refuge Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Illinois Coalition for Community Services | $25,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| 1st Stage Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Purple Asparagus | $15,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Hispanic Federation Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($939k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sumac 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 · Healthy Communities Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Sumac Foundation
- How much does Sumac Foundation give?
- Sumac Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $414,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sumac Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (18%), Human Services (17%), Food & Nutrition (15%).
- Who are Sumac Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Maldef - Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund ($424k), The Resurrection Project ($255k), Erie Neighborhood House ($235k).
- Does Sumac Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sumac 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 Sumac Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Healthy Communities Foundation, Robert R McCormick Foundation.
- Where is Sumac Foundation based?
- Sumac Foundation is based in IL.
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