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Suzanne Dreebin Wilensky Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6k
Granted FY2021
8
Grants FY2021
8
Organizations funded FY2021
0%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$150
Largest grant, FY2021
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 18
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
5
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations Suzanne Dreebin Wilensky Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21
HealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20218$6k0%
FY202018$10k11%
FY201917$5k18%
FY201818$4k6%
FY201718$7kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Health$20kEducation$6kHuman Services$3kInternational$2kArts & Culture$450Philanthropy$450

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
CT
KY
MD
TN
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of Suzanne Dreebin Wilensky Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Leukemia Research Foundation$7,10030%
University of Illinois Foundation$6,00040%
The Salvation Army$2,5004n/a
Evan Joseph Gerstein Foundation$2,00024%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$1,78550%
Keshet$1,15050%
Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Foundation$95040%
Mercy Ships International$75050%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of America$75050%
United States Fund for Unicef$50050%
Fisher House Foundation Inc$40040%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$40040%
Hope of Lyon County Inc$4004n/a
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$30020%
Chai Lifeline Inc$10010%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Suzanne Dreebin Wilensky Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLeukemia Research Foundation: $7,100 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEvan Joseph Gerstein Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,785 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKeshet: $1,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCornelia de Lange Syndrome Foundation: $950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of America: $750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFisher House Foundation Inc: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChai Lifeline Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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About Suzanne Dreebin Wilensky Foundation

How much does Suzanne Dreebin Wilensky Foundation give?
Suzanne Dreebin Wilensky Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $6,435 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Suzanne Dreebin Wilensky Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Health (63%), Education (19%), Human Services (10%).
Who are Suzanne Dreebin Wilensky Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Leukemia Research Foundation ($7k), University of Illinois Foundation ($6k), The Salvation Army ($3k).
Does Suzanne Dreebin Wilensky Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Suzanne Dreebin Wilensky Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Suzanne Dreebin Wilensky Foundation based?
Suzanne Dreebin Wilensky Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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