Illinois · Private foundation
Tengelsen 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.
- $920k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $475,875
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Tengelsen Family 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; $27k 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 | 14 | $920k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $806k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $477k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $427k | 59% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $787k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $1.1M | 56% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $146k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $446k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 | $2,397,880 | 8 | 2% |
| Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago | $1,211,100 | 7 | 0% |
| Kennesaw State University Foundation Inc | $260,000 | 1 | 0% |
| NAMI Chicago | $207,354 | 9 | 1% |
| Wolcott School | $134,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Big Green | $102,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Pilot Light | $59,700 | 6 | 2% |
| David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace | $38,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Playworks Education Energized | $33,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Thresholds | $30,400 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($589k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tengelsen 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 · The Lumpkin Family Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Albert Pick Jr Fund · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Builders Vision Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
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About Tengelsen Family Foundation
- How much does Tengelsen Family Foundation give?
- Tengelsen Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $919,952 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Tengelsen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (58%), Health (30%), Food & Nutrition (4%).
- Who are Tengelsen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Big Shoulders Fund ($2.4M), Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ($1.2M), Kennesaw State University Foundation Inc ($260k).
- Does Tengelsen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tengelsen 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 Tengelsen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, The Lumpkin Family Foundation, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc.
- Where is Tengelsen Family Foundation based?
- Tengelsen Family Foundation is based in IL.
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