Illinois · Private foundation
Thing 123 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.
- $257k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Thing 123 Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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 | 26 | $257k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $232k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $206k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $254k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $197k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $181k | 89% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $7k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $101k | 100% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Care for Friends | $242,522 | 6 | 23% |
| Elmhurst-Yorkfield Food Pantry | $83,015 | 7 | 1% |
| Chicago Lights | $82,756 | 8 | 1% |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $69,432 | 6 | 0% |
| St James Faith Lab | $48,411 | 4 | 2% |
| The Josselyn Center Nfp | $40,951 | 4 | 0% |
| Chicago Youth Programs Inc | $38,951 | 5 | 1% |
| Exodus World Service | $36,434 | 3 | 1% |
| Book Harvest | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $33,176 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($408k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Thing 123 Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 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: Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Lyon Family Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Dr Scholl Foundation · Synchrony Foundation
How this is measured
About Thing 123 Foundation
- How much does Thing 123 Foundation give?
- Thing 123 Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $256,796 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Thing 123 Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (20%), Food & Nutrition (19%), Housing & Shelter (17%).
- Who are Thing 123 Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Care for Friends ($243k), Elmhurst-Yorkfield Food Pantry ($83k), Chicago Lights ($83k).
- Does Thing 123 Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thing 123 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 Thing 123 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Thing 123 Foundation based?
- Thing 123 Foundation is based in IL.
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