Illinois · Private foundation
The Christopher Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $4.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 81
- Grants FY2024
- 87
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $290,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 94
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $74M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations The Christopher Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k 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 | 80 | $4.5M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 87 | $4.0M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 91 | $4.3M | 26% |
| FY2021 | 94 | $3.0M | 35% |
| FY2020 | 78 | $3.1M | 73% |
| FY2017 | 45 | $1.4M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walther Lutheran High School Association Inc | $1,242,944 | 6 | n/a |
| Forefront | $986,917 | 4 | 3% |
| Chicago Community Foundation | $985,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago | $710,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $677,100 | 6 | 0% |
| Timothy Christian Schools | $545,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church of River Forest | $446,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Meals on Wheels of Sheboygan County Inc | $432,500 | 5 | 5% |
| Chicagoland Lutheran Educational Foundation | $412,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Lutheran Music Program | $405,000 | 6 | 8% |
Show all 165 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Christopher Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 150 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Forefront · Chicago Foundation for Women
How this is measured
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About The Christopher Family Foundation
- How much does The Christopher Family Foundation give?
- The Christopher Family Foundation reported 81 grants totaling $4,516,136 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 94 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Christopher Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (23%), Philanthropy (11%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
- Who are The Christopher Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Walther Lutheran High School Association Inc ($1.2M), Forefront ($987k), Chicago Community Foundation ($985k).
- Does The Christopher Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Christopher Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Christopher Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Polk Bros Foundation Inc, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, Circle of Service Foundation.
- Where is The Christopher Family Foundation based?
- The Christopher Family Foundation is based in IL.
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