· Private foundation
The Marjorie & Edward Illig 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SISTERS OF SOCIAL SERVICE | $15,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD SHELTER | $15,000 |
| THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| EQUESTRIAN ORDER OF HOLY SEPULCHRE | $10,000 |
| MEND-MEET EACH NEED WITH DIGNITY | $10,000 |
| PREP MINISTRY OF ARCHDIOCESE OF LA | $10,000 |
| DOMINICAN SISTES OF ST CECILIA | $8,000 |
| CATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS AND SISTERS | $7,500 |
| DOMINICAN SISTERS OF MISSION SAN JO | $5,000 |
| RACHEL'S VINEYARD OF BOWLING GREEN | $5,000 |
| CALIFORNIA MISSIONS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ST THOMAS AQUINAS CHURCH | $2,800 |
| ST JOHN'S SEMINARY | $2,500 |
| CARMELITE SISTERS OF MSH OF LA | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +142% since the first grant, against +84% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CMCALIFORNIA MISSIONS FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $31k · revenue +279%
- FKFather Kens Vineyard Inc4× · 2017–2021 · $26k · revenue +159%
- DSDeeper Still Upper Cumberland Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $9k · revenue +142%
Funded once
- SBST BEDE THE VENERABLEone grant, 2019 · $30k
- AOARCHDIOCESE OF LOS ANGELESone grant, 2018 · $20k
- PFPAULIST FATHERSone grant, 2020 · $20k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Consulting for Catholic organizations
The Mission of Marian Outreach is to reach out to those most in need who are hungry, need clothing or need a compassionate word of support, following the Gospel message of Jesus Christ. As a ministry of the Daughters of Charity, the Marian…
Exaltation of god evangelization of the world
To evangelize and feed the poorest of the poor.
Ignatian Ministries accompanies those who are called to a deeper faith by offering Ignatian tools, resources, and community for contemplative prayer, for hearing God's voice, for embracing the companionship of Christ, and for living their…
To provide pastoral ministries in the San Diego County Hispanic community.
United Saints is committed to taking the Gospel to both major cities and the most remote regionsreaching places like the Amazon Jungle and beyondwith the power and love of Jesus.
The Camino de California is an all volunteer apostolate and movement of the Holy Spirit seeking the conversion of souls in California thru Eucharistic procession and pilgrimage centered on Californias missions.
Move A Mountain Missions is a non-profit organization rooted in the Catholic faith and inspired by the healing and caring ministry of Jesus. It is our goal to provide genuine encounters with Christ through service to the most vulnerable.…
The organizations conducts Christian Life Programs, marriage enrichment retreats and conferences to strengthen participants Catholic faith as it relates to family life including relationships between spouses and their children
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity ↗
- Who funds THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA MISSIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Father Kens Vineyard Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Deeper Still Upper Cumberland Inc ↗
- Who funds BROTHERS HELPERS INC ↗
- Who funds IMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC ↗
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: Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Marjorie & Edward Illig Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Marjorie & Edward Illig Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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