Illinois · Private foundation
The Atkins Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $211k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2024
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $102,064
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 40
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations The Atkins Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 30 | $108k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $70k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $221k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $222k | 46% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $79k | 48% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $225k | 54% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $131k | 37% |
| FY2017 | 40 | $132k | n/a |
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 FY2024, 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 | $319,633 | 8 | 0% |
| Jewish Community Centers of Chicago | $56,783 | 4 | 0% |
| Houston Achievement Place | $47,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Jewish Community Centers Association of North America | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Museum of Contemporary Art | $15,305 | 7 | 0% |
| Threewalls | $8,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $6,075 | 6 | 0% |
| Briarwood Scholarship Foundation | $5,981 | 8 | 1% |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $4,030 | 2 | 0% |
| Society for Contemporary Art C-O The Art Institute of Chicago | $3,500 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 82 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($657k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Atkins 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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Metzner Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · Leon and Sharon Kaufman Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · AbbVie Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jerrold Ruskin Foundation Inc · Mills Family Charitable Foundation · Prince Foundation · Reva and David Logan Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Atkins Family Foundation
- How much does The Atkins Family Foundation give?
- The Atkins Family Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $211,070 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 40 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Atkins Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (53%), Religion (15%), Youth Development (13%).
- Who are The Atkins Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($320k), Jewish Community Centers of Chicago ($57k), Houston Achievement Place ($48k).
- Does The Atkins Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Atkins 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 The Atkins Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Metzner Family Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is The Atkins Family Foundation based?
- The Atkins Family Foundation is based in IL.
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