Illinois · Private foundation
Tessie Grosby Charitable 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.
- $70k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,050
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 24
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $85k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Tessie Grosby Charitable 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; $3k 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 | 27 | $68k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $83k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $67k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $33k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $12k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $10k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $68,603 | 6 | 0% |
| Give Kids the World Inc | $26,562 | 6 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Global | $14,013 | 4 | 0% |
| Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation | $10,927 | 6 | 0% |
| Jane's Room | $10,257 | 3 | 5% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $9,928 | 5 | 0% |
| Role Model Movement Inc (NFP) | $9,407 | 4 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $9,023 | 6 | 0% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $8,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Multiple Sclerosis Foundation Inc | $6,050 | 3 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($70k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tessie Grosby Charitable 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: AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Verizon Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Tessie Grosby Charitable Foundation
- How much does Tessie Grosby Charitable Foundation give?
- Tessie Grosby Charitable Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $70,472 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Tessie Grosby Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (26%), Youth Development (19%), Health (15%).
- Who are Tessie Grosby Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($69k), Give Kids the World Inc ($27k), Ronald McDonald House Global ($14k).
- Does Tessie Grosby Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tessie Grosby Charitable 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 Tessie Grosby Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Verizon Foundation.
- Where is Tessie Grosby Charitable Foundation based?
- Tessie Grosby Charitable Foundation is based in IL.
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