Illinois · Private foundation
The Weiner-Ellman 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.
- $50k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $300
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $21,561
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $291k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Weiner-Ellman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 21 | $50k | 62% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $48k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $37k | 54% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $39k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $22k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $18k | 48% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $12k | 35% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $14k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michiana Humane Society Inc | $103,708 | 8 | 1% |
| Youth Job Center Inc | $39,676 | 6 | 1% |
| Warren W Cherry Preschool | $8,845 | 8 | 0% |
| Northlight Theatre Inc | $8,793 | 1 | 0% |
| Felines Inc | $8,150 | 7 | 0% |
| One Tail at a Time Nfp | $4,133 | 4 | 0% |
| Tzedek Chicago | $4,087 | 6 | n/a |
| Curt's Cafe | $4,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Evanston Scholars | $3,709 | 5 | 0% |
| Youth & Opportunity United Inc | $3,700 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($41k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Weiner-Ellman 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: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Kellcie Fund · Northwestern University · AbbVie Foundation · Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl Foundation · Evanston Community Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Francis Beidler Foundation · Finnegan Family Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
Compare The Weiner-Ellman Family Foundation with peer funders
About The Weiner-Ellman Family Foundation
- How much does The Weiner-Ellman Family Foundation give?
- The Weiner-Ellman Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $50,042 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Weiner-Ellman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (49%), Employment (15%), Education (6%).
- Who are The Weiner-Ellman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Michiana Humane Society Inc ($104k), Youth Job Center Inc ($40k), Warren W Cherry Preschool ($9k).
- Does The Weiner-Ellman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Weiner-Ellman 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 Weiner-Ellman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, The Kellcie Fund.
- Where is The Weiner-Ellman Family Foundation based?
- The Weiner-Ellman Family Foundation is based in IL.
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