Illinois · Private foundation
The Schnitzer Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $97k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 39
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $879k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations The Schnitzer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 | 37 | $94k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $84k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $68k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $63k | 3% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $73k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $71k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $69k | 19% |
| FY2017 | 39 | $67k | 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 | $53,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Repro TLC | $40,000 | 4 | 2% |
| K a M Isaiah Israel Congregation | $33,660 | 8 | n/a |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $31,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Benedictine School for Exceptional Children Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Hias Inc | $29,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $22,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Field Museum of Natural History | $20,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Temple Beth Jacob | $19,398 | 8 | n/a |
| Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Inc | $14,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($209k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Schnitzer 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: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Schnitzer Family Foundation
- How much does The Schnitzer Family Foundation give?
- The Schnitzer Family Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $96,831 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 39 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Schnitzer Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (16%), Science & Tech (16%), Health (12%).
- Who are The Schnitzer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($53k), Repro TLC ($40k), K a M Isaiah Israel Congregation ($34k).
- Does The Schnitzer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Schnitzer Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Schnitzer Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is The Schnitzer Family Foundation based?
- The Schnitzer Family Foundation is based in IL.
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