Illinois · Private foundation
The Witz Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $158k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations The Witz Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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 | 29 | $158k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $172k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $149k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $163k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $135k | 59% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $126k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $114k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $96k | 71% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swedish Covenant Hospital Foundation | $200,000 | 8 | 1% |
| The Well Resource Center NFP | $122,250 | 8 | 8% |
| United States Ski Team Foundation | $105,050 | 8 | 0% |
| Orchard Village | $102,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Music Associates of Aspen Inc | $95,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Bernie's Book Bank | $46,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Skender Foundation | $40,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Greenhouse Scholars | $31,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Ace Mentor Program of Illinois Inc | $27,000 | 5 | 2% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $22,638 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 65 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($88k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Witz Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 58 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Skender Foundation · Executive Construction Foundation · Clune Cares Foundation Inc · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Turner Construction Company Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · The Dupage Community Foundation · Usg Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Witz Family Foundation
- How much does The Witz Family Foundation give?
- The Witz Family Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $158,313 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Witz Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (38%), Human Services (16%), Education (10%).
- Who are The Witz Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Swedish Covenant Hospital Foundation ($200k), The Well Resource Center NFP ($122k), United States Ski Team Foundation ($105k).
- Does The Witz Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Witz Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Witz Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Skender Foundation, Executive Construction Foundation, Clune Cares Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Witz Family Foundation based?
- The Witz Family Foundation is based in IL.
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