Illinois · Private foundation
The Grossinger 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.
- $186k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 56
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations The Grossinger 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; $11k 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 | 17 | $171k | 41% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $166k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $192k | 41% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $190k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $270k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $174k | 68% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $166k | 52% |
| FY2017 | 56 | $194k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $225,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired | $129,225 | 8 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago | $117,996 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $70,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Hope Chicago Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Wellesley College | $48,600 | 5 | 0% |
| Ravinia Festival Association | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Hope for the Day | $40,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Uniting Voices | $34,823 | 5 | 0% |
| Share Our Strength | $32,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 77 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($448k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Grossinger 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 · The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · The Lyon Family Foundation · The Kadens Family Foundation · Jarvis Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Baxter International Foundation
How this is measured
About The Grossinger Foundation
- How much does The Grossinger Foundation give?
- The Grossinger Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $185,901 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 56 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Grossinger Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Philanthropy (17%), Health (16%).
- Who are The Grossinger Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($225k), The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired ($129k), Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago ($118k).
- Does The Grossinger Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Grossinger 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 Grossinger Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, The Chicago Community Trust, AbbVie Foundation.
- Where is The Grossinger Foundation based?
- The Grossinger Foundation is based in IL.
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