Illinois · Private foundation
The Kjellstrom Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $710k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2025
- 53
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 49%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $82,459
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 53
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 49% of the organizations The Kjellstrom Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $312k 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 | 47 | $710k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 53 | $711k | 49% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $632k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $457k | 55% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $617k | 97% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $509k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Rock River Valley | $472,300 | 1 | 9% |
| Rockford Area Arts Council | $137,700 | 5 | 24% |
| Discovery Center Museum of Rockford Inc | $93,352 | 4 | 1% |
| Rockford Symphony Orchestras Inc | $92,578 | 5 | 3% |
| Friends of the Coronado | $82,330 | 5 | 20% |
| Easter Seals Inc | $71,427 | 4 | 0% |
| Regional Access & Mobilization Project Inc | $67,420 | 2 | 1% |
| Midway Village & Museum Center | $65,605 | 5 | 2% |
| Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill | $62,418 | 4 | 0% |
| Rockford Promise | $62,285 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 74 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Kjellstrom Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 60 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: Community Foundation of Northern IL · Blazer Foundation · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · United Way of Rock River Valley · The Ben Harding Family Foundation · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · The Mill Foundation · Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · Smith Charitable Foundation Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx · Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation · John & Linda Anderson Charitable Foundation · Woodward Governor Charitable Trust
How this is measured
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About The Kjellstrom Family Foundation
- How much does The Kjellstrom Family Foundation give?
- The Kjellstrom Family Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $710,460 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 53 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Kjellstrom Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Education (17%), Human Services (17%).
- Who are The Kjellstrom Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: United Way of Rock River Valley ($472k), Rockford Area Arts Council ($138k), Discovery Center Museum of Rockford Inc ($93k).
- Does The Kjellstrom Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 49% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kjellstrom Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Kjellstrom Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Northern IL, Blazer Foundation, Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008.
- Where is The Kjellstrom Family Foundation based?
- The Kjellstrom Family Foundation is based in IL.
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