Illinois · Private foundation
The Van Grinsven Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $80k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $492k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations The Van Grinsven Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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 | 12 | $80k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $65k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $47k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $36k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $50k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $40k | 86% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $27k | 71% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $23k | 57% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago Jesuit Academy | $66,597 | 7 | n/a |
| Institute for Nonviolence Chicago | $39,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $36,800 | 3 | 0% |
| Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Dba Cure Sma | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund | $20,570 | 2 | 0% |
| Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hearts and Homes for Refugees | $12,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Capital Area Food Bank Inc | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sandy Hook Promise Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lewy Body Dementia Association Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($101k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Van Grinsven 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: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Van Grinsven Family Foundation with peer funders
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About The Van Grinsven Family Foundation
- How much does The Van Grinsven Family Foundation give?
- The Van Grinsven Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $80,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Van Grinsven Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Food & Nutrition (13%), Health (13%).
- Who are The Van Grinsven Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Chicago Jesuit Academy ($67k), Institute for Nonviolence Chicago ($40k), Greater Chicago Food Depository ($37k).
- Does The Van Grinsven Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Van Grinsven Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Van Grinsven Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Van Grinsven Family Foundation based?
- The Van Grinsven Family Foundation is based in IL.
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