Illinois · Private foundation
Thierer Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $639k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 22
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $6.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 47% of the organizations Thierer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 13 | $639k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $726k | 47% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $493k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $188k | 73% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $394k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $356k | 47% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $388k | 73% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $215k | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food Access Project | $1,065,500 | 3 | 62% |
| Nourishing Hope | $261,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Lyric Opera of Chicago | $250,517 | 7 | 0% |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $230,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Urban Gateways | $200,500 | 3 | 3% |
| Ignite | $110,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Sinai Health System | $104,127 | 2 | 0% |
| The Chicago High School for the Arts | $103,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Cradles to Crayons Inc | $70,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Inspiration Corporation | $56,400 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($364k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Thierer Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · Circle of Service Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Forefront · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Greater Chicago Food Depository · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Cuore e Mani Foundation · The Pierce Family Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Thierer Family Foundation
- How much does Thierer Family Foundation give?
- Thierer Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $638,904 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Thierer Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (45%), Arts & Culture (26%), Health (8%).
- Who are Thierer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Food Access Project ($1.1M), Nourishing Hope ($261k), Lyric Opera of Chicago ($251k).
- Does Thierer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thierer 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 Thierer Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Circle of Service Foundation.
- Where is Thierer Family Foundation based?
- Thierer Family Foundation is based in IL.
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