Illinois · Private foundation
The Baila 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.
- $55k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $26,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $320k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations The Baila Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 16 | $55k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $52k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $30k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $45k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $52k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $42k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $30k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $45k | 52% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Chicago | $89,050 | 8 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $58,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Illinois Muslim Communiity Foundation Inc | $38,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Chicago Architecture Foundation | $26,820 | 9 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $12,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Chicago Shakespeare Theater | $9,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Council for Jewish Elderly | $8,100 | 5 | 0% |
| Music Will Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Pandas Networkorg | $7,500 | 3 | 1% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $6,750 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($77k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Baila 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 · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Walder Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · AbbVie Foundation · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About The Baila Foundation
- How much does The Baila Foundation give?
- The Baila Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $54,865 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Baila Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Education (25%), Recreation & Sports (15%).
- Who are The Baila Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Chicago ($89k), Northwestern University ($58k), Illinois Muslim Communiity Foundation Inc ($39k).
- Does The Baila Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Baila 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 Baila Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.
- Where is The Baila Foundation based?
- The Baila Foundation is based in IL.
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