Illinois · Private foundation
Zivin Family Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $161k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2026
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 28
- FY2021 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 7
- Total assets, FY2026
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 25% of the organizations Zivin Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 30 | $156k | 7% |
| FY2025 | 28 | $131k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $117k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $109k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $72k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $97k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $110,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The International Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia Foundation Inc | $84,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Alliance for Middle East Peace Inc | $80,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Rush University Medical Center | $70,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $33,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Bridgeport Hospital Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| North Shore Congregation Israel | $30,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Rainbow Railroad USA Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Public Citizen Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Erie Family Health Foundation Inc | $17,000 | 5 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($56k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Zivin Family 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 · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Kellcie Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · First Bank Chicago Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
About Zivin Family Foundation
- How much does Zivin Family Foundation give?
- Zivin Family Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $160,500 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 28 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
- What does Zivin Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Health (37%), Philanthropy (22%), International (14%).
- Who are Zivin Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($110k), The International Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia Foundation Inc ($84k), Alliance for Middle East Peace Inc ($80k).
- Does Zivin Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Zivin Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Zivin Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, The Kellcie Fund.
- Where is Zivin Family Foundation based?
- Zivin Family Foundation is based in IL.
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