Illinois · Private foundation
The Bellick 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.
- $410k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $23,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 41
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Bellick Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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 | $410k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $234k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $552k | 59% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $391k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $322k | 59% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $457k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $535k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $715k | 43% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Museum of Contemporary Art | $420,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Friends of School in the Square Inc | $385,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $316,357 | 6 | 0% |
| Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation | $282,113 | 9 | 11% |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $240,360 | 8 | 0% |
| Wolcott School | $175,721 | 4 | 1% |
| University of Michigan | $175,000 | 7 | 11% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $96,074 | 5 | 0% |
| The Latin School of Chicago | $95,580 | 5 | 0% |
| Francis W Parker School | $68,335 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 76 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bellick 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 · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · United Jewish Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
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About The Bellick Foundation
- How much does The Bellick Foundation give?
- The Bellick Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $409,703 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Bellick Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (43%), Health (22%), Philanthropy (15%).
- Who are The Bellick Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Museum of Contemporary Art ($420k), Friends of School in the Square Inc ($385k), Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($316k).
- Does The Bellick Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bellick 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 Bellick Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, United Jewish Foundation.
- Where is The Bellick Foundation based?
- The Bellick Foundation is based in IL.
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