Illinois · Private foundation
Susan & Jerome Ettelson Fund
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.
- $98k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 65
- Grants FY2025
- 74
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $400
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,800
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 78
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 20
- Total assets, FY2025
- $315k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Susan & Jerome Ettelson Fund 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; $1k 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 | 65 | $98k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 74 | $97k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 78 | $101k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 72 | $82k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 56 | $85k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $75k | 37% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $60k | 34% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $41k | 29% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Anti-Cruelty Society | $92,150 | 9 | 0% |
| Shedd Aquarium Society | $62,501 | 9 | 0% |
| Lincoln Park Zoological Society | $45,500 | 9 | 0% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $39,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Cradles to Crayons Inc | $28,600 | 6 | 0% |
| Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry | $28,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $26,150 | 7 | 0% |
| Field Museum of Natural History | $17,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Tree House Humane Society Inc | $16,290 | 9 | 0% |
| Best Friends Animal Society | $15,450 | 7 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($148k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Susan & Jerome Ettelson Fund 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.
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How this is measured
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About Susan & Jerome Ettelson Fund
- How much does Susan & Jerome Ettelson Fund give?
- Susan & Jerome Ettelson Fund reported 65 grants totaling $97,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 78 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Susan & Jerome Ettelson Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (56%), Human Services (6%), Food & Nutrition (6%).
- Who are Susan & Jerome Ettelson Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Anti-Cruelty Society ($92k), Shedd Aquarium Society ($63k), Lincoln Park Zoological Society ($46k).
- Does Susan & Jerome Ettelson Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Susan & Jerome Ettelson Fund 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 Susan & Jerome Ettelson Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr, Bradford Family Foundation, Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation.
- Where is Susan & Jerome Ettelson Fund based?
- Susan & Jerome Ettelson Fund is based in IL.
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