Illinois · Private foundation
Walter S Mander 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.
- $538k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 58
- Grants FY2025
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $116,393
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 49
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Walter S Mander Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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 | 57 | $531k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 46 | $545k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $533k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $463k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $541k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forefront | $477,191 | 5 | 1% |
| Garfield Park Community Council | $82,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Growing Home Inc | $82,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Star Farm Chicago | $78,350 | 5 | 2% |
| Advocates for Urban Agriculture Nfp | $77,500 | 4 | 5% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $70,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Bnai Abraham-Zion Congregation | $65,000 | 5 | n/a |
| The Selfhelp Home Inc | $60,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Opportunity Knocks Incorporated | $60,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 64 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($834k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Walter S Mander 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: The Chicago Community Trust · Forefront · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Lumpkin Family Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Joyce Foundation · Builders Vision Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc
How this is measured
About Walter S Mander Foundation
- How much does Walter S Mander Foundation give?
- Walter S Mander Foundation reported 58 grants totaling $538,351 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 49 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Walter S Mander Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (30%), Food & Nutrition (13%), Crime & Legal (10%).
- Who are Walter S Mander Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Forefront ($477k), Garfield Park Community Council ($83k), Growing Home Inc ($82k).
- Does Walter S Mander Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Walter S Mander 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 Walter S Mander Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Forefront, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.
- Where is Walter S Mander Foundation based?
- Walter S Mander Foundation is based in IL.
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