Delaware · Private foundation
The Sammann 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.
- $233k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 93%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $66,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 15
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 93% of the organizations The Sammann Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $233k | 48% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $209k | 93% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $30k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 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, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Suburban Evangelical Free Church | $188,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Feed My Starving Children Inc | $120,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $32,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Casa Lake County Inc | $24,280 | 2 | 1% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| United Way of Lake County Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| K-Love Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Safe Families for Children Alliance | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($3k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sammann 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.
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How this is measured
About The Sammann Family Foundation
- How much does The Sammann Family Foundation give?
- The Sammann Family Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $232,680 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 15 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does The Sammann Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (42%), Food & Nutrition (30%), International (8%).
- Who are The Sammann Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: North Suburban Evangelical Free Church ($188k), Feed My Starving Children Inc ($120k), Samaritan's Purse ($33k).
- Does The Sammann Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 93% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sammann 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 Sammann Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, National Philanthropic Trust, AbbVie Foundation.
- Where is The Sammann Family Foundation based?
- The Sammann Family Foundation is based in DE.
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