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Daniel & Chayala Glenner Foundation

Lincolnwood, IL · EIN 27-1386249. Reported 103 grants totalling $446,749 to 58 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,480median grant
$446,749granted, 2021-2025
58recipients, as named on its returns
44%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,216assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Daniel & Chayala Glenner Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,480. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $3,372; the smallest was $300 and the largest $45,446. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
19 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
66 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
6 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
8 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
4 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
The Donors FundLincolnwood, IL$104,341552025
Miscellaneous Organized ChartiesLincolnwood, IL$98,670442025
Kahl Ohr Yisocher ChodorovLincolnwood, IL$40,005432025
Miscellaneous Organized CharitiesLincolnwood, IL$20,966112021
Kahal Zidichov ChodrovLincolnwood, IL$20,560112025
Telshe Yeshiva ChicagoLincolnwood, IL$10,180332025
Kahl Ohr YisocherLincolnwood, IL$10,050112022
Khal Ohr YisocherLincolnwood, IL$8,700112021
Yeshivas Kesser YonahLincolnwood, IL$8,210222025
Agudath Israel of IllinoisLincolnwood, IL$7,384332025
Camp Nageela MidwestLincolnwood, IL$7,280442025
Tat of EdisonLincolnwood, IL$7,100332023
Midwest Bais HoraahLincolnwood, IL$6,400332025
Cong BmbaLincolnwood, IL$5,000112021
Congregation MeadoebrookLincolnwood, IL$5,000112024
Jewish FederationLincolnwood, IL$5,000112023
Kahal Zichron YoelLincolnwood, IL$5,000112025
Adopt-a-KollelLincolnwood, IL$4,500442025
Agudath Israel CampLincolnwood, IL$4,400112023
Hatzalah ChicagoLincolnwood, IL$4,390332025
Joan Dachs Bais YaakovLincolnwood, IL$4,080332025
Yeshiva Eitz ChaimLincolnwood, IL$3,800222023
Joan Dachs Hachnosas Kallah FundLincolnwood, IL$3,732322022
Mesivta of CliftonLincolnwood, IL$3,660222025
Yeshiva Derech HatorahLincolnwood, IL$3,360222025
Mesivta Shaarei AdirimLincolnwood, IL$3,108222025
Ahavas TorahLincolnwood, IL$3,060222025
Kollel Ateres AmiLincolnwood, IL$3,000112024
Camp Agudah MidwestLincolnwood, IL$2,900222024
Congregation Ohr YechezkalLincolnwood, IL$2,500112023
The Kehilla Jewish Education FundLincolnwood, IL$2,400222025
The Chicago CenterLincolnwood, IL$2,000222023
Friends of EmvhLincolnwood, IL$1,850112021
Chicago Mikvah AssociationLincolnwood, IL$1,720222025
Kollel Tiferes YisraelLincolnwood, IL$1,500332025
Toras AvigdorLincolnwood, IL$1,296222025
Hebrew Theological CollegeLincolnwood, IL$1,250112023
Adopt-a-LollelLincolnwood, IL$1,200112022
Kever RochelLincolnwood, IL$1,200112025
Mosdos SpinkaLincolnwood, IL$1,200112024
RccsLincolnwood, IL$1,137112025
Aderes Miriam FundLincolnwood, IL$1,100112021
Chai LifelineLincolnwood, IL$1,000222023
Chicago Chesed FundLincolnwood, IL$1,000112025
Cong Ateres SholomLincolnwood, IL$1,000112021
Congregation Khal ChasidimLincolnwood, IL$1,000112023
Congregation MeadowbrookLincolnwood, IL$1,000112021
Congregation Zichron ChaimLincolnwood, IL$1,000112023
Guard Your EyesLincolnwood, IL$1,000112021
Kotel ConnectionsLincolnwood, IL$1,000112025
Yeshiva Meor HatorahLincolnwood, IL$1,000112021
Adirei HatorahLincolnwood, IL$720222025
Yad EliezerLincolnwood, IL$540112025
HalaLincolnwood, IL$500112022
Kollel ToferesLincolnwood, IL$500112022
Kollel Yad ChaimLincolnwood, IL$500112022
Toras ChesedLincolnwood, IL$500112022
Rabinic Seminary of AmericaLincolnwood, IL$300112025

26 of 58 (45%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 44%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 17 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Religion
7 grants
Health Care
5 grants
Education
4 grants
Human Services
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202116$51,698$1,140
202216$60,765$1,100
202320$116,349$1,650
202423$123,637$1,790
202528$94,300$1,350

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Lincolnwood, IL
$447K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund8 shared recipientsJewish Federation of Metropolitan7 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc7 shared recipientsJewish Communal Fund6 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc5 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust5 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,480. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Illinois.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Daniel & Chayala Glenner Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 7358 N Lincoln Ave 120, Lincolnwood, IL, 60712. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 27-1386249 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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