How much does The Albert Pick Jr Fund give?

The Albert Pick Jr Fund reported 54 grants totaling $1,015,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 74 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does The Albert Pick Jr Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (16%), Health (12%), Youth Development (11%).

Who are The Albert Pick Jr Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Chicago Community Foundation ($595k), Kuumba Lynx ($145k), Storycatchers ($135k).

Does The Albert Pick Jr Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Albert Pick Jr Fund accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Albert Pick Jr Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Polk Bros Foundation Inc, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, Field Foundation of Illinois.

Where is The Albert Pick Jr Fund based?

The Albert Pick Jr Fund is based in IL.

Foundation Dossiers

Illinois · Private foundation

The Albert Pick Jr Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 54
Grants FY2024: 57
Organizations funded FY2023: 12%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $17,500
Largest grant, FY2024: $75,000
Organizations funded a year: 57 to 74; FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $20M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 12% of the organizations The Albert Pick Jr Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthCivil RightsOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	51	$920k	4%
FY2023	57	$914k	12%
FY2022	71	$1.2M	27%
FY2021	71	$1.4M	34%
FY2020	70	$1.4M	21%
FY2019	68	$1.3M	29%
FY2018	74	$1.3M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.4MHealth$1.0MYouth Development$940kEducation$923kPhilanthropy$745kHuman Services$675kCommunity Improvement$670kCivil Rights$633kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Chicago Community Foundation	$595,000	7	n/a
Kuumba Lynx	$145,000	7	3%
Storycatchers	$135,000	6	2%
Juvenile Protective Association	$135,000	6	1%
Tuesdays Child	$130,000	6	3%
Plant Chicago NFP	$128,000	6	9%
Chicago United for Equity	$125,000	5	8%
Alianza Leadership Institute	$125,000	6	14%
Target Hope	$120,000	6	9%
Chicago Women's Health Center	$120,000	6	2%

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All grantees of The Albert Pick Jr Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Chicago Community Foundation	$595,000	7	n/a
Kuumba Lynx	$145,000	7	3%
Storycatchers	$135,000	6	2%
Juvenile Protective Association	$135,000	6	1%
Tuesdays Child	$130,000	6	3%
Plant Chicago NFP	$128,000	6	9%
Chicago United for Equity	$125,000	5	8%
Alianza Leadership Institute	$125,000	6	14%
Target Hope	$120,000	6	9%
Chicago Women's Health Center	$120,000	6	2%
Family Rescue Inc	$120,000	5	1%
Latino Union of Chicago	$120,000	6	5%
Chicago Youth Programs Inc	$115,000	6	1%
Math Circles of Chicago	$115,000	6	5%
The Experimental Station	$110,000	6	1%
TFK Chicago Voyagers	$105,500	6	5%
National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum Dba National Veterans Art Museum	$105,000	5	9%
Southside Together Organizing For Power	$100,000	5	5%
Young Invincibles	$100,000	6	0%
Gilloury Institute	$100,000	4	3%
Crossroads Fund Inc	$95,000	4	0%
Chicago Freedom School	$95,000	5	2%
The Chicago Debate Commission	$95,000	6	2%
Community Organizing and Family Issues	$95,000	5	1%
Arab American Action Network	$95,000	5	4%
Communities United	$95,000	5	1%
Children's Research Triangle	$95,000	5	1%
Refugeeone	$90,000	5	1%
Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago	$90,000	6	0%
Arise Chicago	$90,000	6	2%
Restore Justice Foundation	$85,000	4	3%
Organizing Neighborhoods For Equality Northside	$85,000	5	1%
Project Exploration	$85,000	4	4%
Territory NFP	$80,000	5	9%
Mother and Child Alliance	$80,000	4	1%
Mobile Care Foundation	$80,000	5	1%
Chicago Coalition to Save Our Mental Health Centers	$80,000	5	5%
United Church of Rogers Park	$80,000	4	n/a
Latinos Progresando	$75,000	4	1%
Friends of the Parks	$75,000	5	2%
Logan Square Neighborhood Association	$75,000	4	1%
Changing Worlds	$72,500	6	3%
Connections for Abused Women and Their Children	$72,500	5	1%
Friends of the Children - Chicago	$70,000	4	2%
Project Syncere	$70,000	4	1%
Harmony Hope & Healing	$69,000	4	6%
New Moms Inc	$65,000	3	0%
Living Works	$60,000	4	12%
Fifth House Ensemble	$60,000	4	3%
Working in the Schools Inc	$60,000	5	1%
Snow City Arts Foundation	$60,000	4	2%
La Rabida Children's Hospital	$60,000	4	0%
Build Inc	$60,000	3	0%
Reading in Motion	$60,000	5	1%
Lugenia Burns Hope Center	$60,000	4	n/a
International Childrens Media Center	$59,100	4	13%
Healing to Action	$57,500	4	2%
Indo-American Center	$57,000	4	1%
Firebird Community Arts	$55,000	3	4%
Health and Medicine Policy Research Group	$53,000	3	1%
Primo Center for Women & Children	$50,000	2	1%
Disability Lead	$50,000	4	3%
Julie and Michael Tracy Family Foundation	$50,000	3	3%
Options for Youth	$45,000	3	1%
First Defense Legal Aid	$45,000	3	2%
Apna Ghar Inc	$45,000	2	1%
Girls 4 Science	$45,000	3	7%
Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation	$45,000	2	2%
Literature for All of US	$45,000	2	5%
Girls Inc of Chicago	$45,000	2	2%
Kenwood Oakland Community Organization	$45,000	3	1%
Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation Nfp	$40,000	2	1%
West Side Justice Center Inc	$40,000	2	7%
Illinois Pirg Education Fund Inc	$40,000	2	6%
Chicago Pre-College Science and Engineering Program	$40,000	2	7%
Greater Chicago Legal Clinic	$40,000	2	1%
Raise Your Hand for Illinois Public Education	$40,000	2	5%
The Poetry Center	$37,500	2	3%
People Matter	$35,000	3	7%
Fathers Families Healthy Communities	$35,000	2	14%
Northwest Side Housing Center	$35,000	2	1%
Everthrive Illinois	$35,000	2	1%
Project Vision Inc	$30,000	3	3%
Red Line Service Institute	$30,000	3	10%
Chicago Sinfonietta Inc	$30,000	3	1%
Brighton Park Neighborhood Council	$30,000	2	0%
Ladies of Virtue	$30,000	3	1%
Lawndale Christian Legal Center	$30,000	2	1%
We All Code	$30,000	2	16%
Heartland Alliance International Inc	$25,000	2	0%
Science and Entrepreneurship Exchange	$25,000	2	2%
Howard Area Community Center	$25,000	2	0%
The Hana Center	$25,000	1	n/a
Housing Opportunities for Women Inc	$25,000	2	0%
Contextos Nfp	$20,000	1	1%
Metropolitan Family Services	$20,000	1	0%
Green Era Educational Nfp	$20,000	1	33%
Ignite	$20,000	2	0%
The Musical Arts Institute	$20,000	2	1%
Centro de Trabajadores Unidos	$20,000	1	1%
Barat Education Foundation	$20,000	1	3%
The Brown House Experience Inc	$20,000	3	21%
Restoring the Path	$20,000	1	5%
Sit Stay Read Inc	$15,000	1	3%
Garfield Park Community Council	$15,000	1	n/a
SkyArt NFP	$15,000	1	1%
Chicago Children's Advocacy Center	$15,000	1	0%
Pilot Light	$15,000	1	3%
Firehouse Community Arts Center of Chicago	$15,000	1	1%
Hamdard Health Alliance	$15,000	1	0%
Black Alphabet Nfp	$15,000	1	3%
Lost Boyzinc	$15,000	1	3%
Sarah's Circle	$15,000	1	0%
True Star Foundation Inc	$15,000	1	2%
Forging Opportunities for Refugees in America Inc Nfp	$15,000	1	2%
Peer Health Exchange Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Arts & Business Council of Chicago	$15,000	1	4%
Chicago City Theatre Company dba Joel Hall Dancers & Center	$15,000	1	2%
Chicago Chess Foundation	$15,000	2	7%
Saint Agatha Dream Builders Association Nfp	$15,000	1	n/a
NAMI Chicago	$15,000	1	1%
Forefront	$12,074	5	0%
Free Lunch Academy	$10,000	1	n/a
Bennett College	$10,000	1	0%
Gardeneers	$10,000	1	1%
Schools That Can	$10,000	1	1%
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Cook County	$10,000	1	0%
Resilience	$10,000	1	n/a
Girls in the Game Nfp	$10,000	1	1%
FreshLens Chicago	$10,000	1	6%
Bright Promises Foundation	$10,000	1	1%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($771k), not named here.

The Albert Pick Jr Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 123 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

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 123.

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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.

Polk Bros Foundation IncIL123.2× affinity63 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Field Foundation of Illinois · The Chicago Community Trust · Chicago Foundation for Women · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Woods Fund of Chicago · Circle of Service Foundation · Crossroads Fund Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Albert Pick Jr Fund

How much does The Albert Pick Jr Fund give?: The Albert Pick Jr Fund reported 54 grants totaling $1,015,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 74 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does The Albert Pick Jr Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (16%), Health (12%), Youth Development (11%).
Who are The Albert Pick Jr Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Chicago Community Foundation ($595k), Kuumba Lynx ($145k), Storycatchers ($135k).
Does The Albert Pick Jr Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Albert Pick Jr Fund accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Albert Pick Jr Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Polk Bros Foundation Inc, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, Field Foundation of Illinois.
Where is The Albert Pick Jr Fund based?: The Albert Pick Jr Fund is based in IL.