Delaware · Private foundation
The Egerter Family 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.
- $591k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 87
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations The Egerter Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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 | 46 | $575k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $487k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 66 | $403k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 87 | $372k | 63% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $138k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School | $92,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Communities in Schools of Chicago | $68,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Build Inc | $61,700 | 5 | 0% |
| Breakthrough Urban Ministries Inc | $60,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund | $60,275 | 5 | 0% |
| Refugeeone | $59,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago | $58,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Infant Welfare Society of Chicago | $54,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Allies for Community Business Inc | $53,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago | $52,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 105 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($141k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Egerter 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: The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · AbbVie Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · North Shore Exchange Nfp · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation
How this is measured
About The Egerter Family Foundation
- How much does The Egerter Family Foundation give?
- The Egerter Family Foundation reported 48 grants totaling $590,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 87 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Egerter Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Youth Development (16%), Employment (9%).
- Who are The Egerter Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Lawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School ($93k), Communities in Schools of Chicago ($68k), Build Inc ($62k).
- Does The Egerter Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Egerter 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 Egerter Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, Arie and Ida Crown Memorial.
- Where is The Egerter Family Foundation based?
- The Egerter Family Foundation is based in DE.
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