Illinois · Private foundation
Tinberg Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $450,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 30
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Tinberg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k 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 | $998k | 41% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $755k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $389k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $376k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $304k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $412k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $337k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Writers Theatre Inc | $825,600 | 7 | 4% |
| Northwestern University | $655,500 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $331,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Ingenuity Incorporated Chicago | $303,250 | 7 | 5% |
| Chicago Public Media Inc | $267,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Colorado State University Foundation | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Erikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression | $144,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Steppenwolf Theatre Company | $104,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $95,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Window to the World Communications Inc | $60,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($227k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tinberg 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: Kemper Educational and Charitable Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · Ross Family Foundation · John D and Alexandra Nichols Family Foundation · Frank Family Foundation · Sheila Reynolds Berner Foundation · Charles H and Beverly E Shaw Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · The Winnetka Club · Center Street Foundation · Bundy Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Tinberg Foundation
- How much does Tinberg Foundation give?
- Tinberg Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $1,002,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 30 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Tinberg Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (46%), Education (32%), Recreation & Sports (8%).
- Who are Tinberg Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Writers Theatre Inc ($826k), Northwestern University ($656k), University of Chicago ($331k).
- Does Tinberg Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tinberg Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Tinberg Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kemper Educational and Charitable Fund, The Chicago Community Trust, Ross Family Foundation.
- Where is Tinberg Foundation based?
- Tinberg Foundation is based in IL.
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