Ehrlichman Family Foundation
Highland Park, IL · EIN 20-1517940. Reported 92 grants totalling $110,040 to 63 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
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. Ehrlichman Family 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.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $250. Half of everything it gave fell between $200 and $500; the smallest was $50 and the largest $11,250. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | Chicago, IL | $44,250 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Jewish United Fund | Chicago, IL | $11,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mccallum Theatre Foundation Inc | Palm Desert, CA | $11,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Jewish Federation of Palm Springs and Desert Area | Rancho Mirage, CA | $10,250 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Jewish Federation of the Desert | Rancho Mirage, CA | $4,625 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ravinia Festival Association | Highland Park, IL | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mccallum Theatre | Palm Desert, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Institute for Cancer Research | Arlington, VA | $1,450 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Desert Community Foundation | Palm Desert, CA | $1,250 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Palm Springs Art Museum | Palm Springs, CA | $1,250 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Beit T'shuvah | Los Angeles, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Foundation for Hearing & Speech Resources | Chicago, IL | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Institute for Cancer Research | Washington, DC | $950 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Highland Park Community Foundation | Highland Park, IL | $800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind | Warrington, PA | $800 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Eisenhower Health Foundation | Rancho Mirage, CA | $750 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Foundation for Hearing & Speech Rehabilitation | Chicago, IL | $750 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| St Jude Childrens Research Hospital Inc | Memphis, TN | $550 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Dolphins Challenge Sylvester Cancer Research | Miami Gardens, FL | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Eisenhower Medical Center | Rancho Mirage, CA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MN | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| United Service Organizations | Arlington, VA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Working in the Schools | Chicago, IL | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United States Holocaust Memorial Musuem | Washington, DC | $400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rancho Mirage Library and Observatory Foundation | Rancho Mirage, CA | $300 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Chicago Botanic Garden | Glencoe, IL | $260 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| All Chicago Making Homelessness History | Chicago, IL | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chicago Sinai Congregation | Chicago, IL | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Environmental Defense Fund | New York, NY | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hollywood Food Coalition | Los Angeles, CA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Israel Guide Dog Center | Warrington, PA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jewish Family Services of the Desert | Palm Springs, CA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lubavitch Chabad of Northbrook | Northbrook, IL | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | New York, NY | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| North Suburban Synagogue Beth El | Highland Park, IL | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Northshore University Health System Foundation | Evanston, IL | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Northwestern School of Medicine | Chicago, IL | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Saint Andrews Lighthouse Inc | Jax Bch, FL | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital | Memphis, TN | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Temple Jeremiah | Northfield, IL | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Uja Federation | New York, NY | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wits | Clifton Park, NY | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| 112 Education Foundation | Highwood, IL | $200 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Anti Defamation League | New York, NY | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Barkee Laroux's House of Love Animal Sanctuary | Palm Springs, CA | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Evans Scholars Foundation | Glenview, IL | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hebrew Theological College | Skokie, IL | $200 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Jdrf International | New York, NY | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lester and Rosalie Anixter Center | Chicago, IL | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Foundation | Chicago, IL | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Miami City Ballet Inc | Miami Beach, FL | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| North Shore Senior Center | Northfield, IL | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Parkinsons Foundation Inc | Miami, FL | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Parkinsons Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning | Chicago, IL | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous Inc | West Orange, NJ | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Unc Health Foundation Inc | Chapel Hill, NC | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Young Lung Cancer Initiative Inc | Pewee Valley, KY | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| AARP Foundation | Washington, DC | $180 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Northshore Senior Center | Northfield, IL | $125 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rancho Mirage Library & Obervatory Foundation | Rancho Mirage, CA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alzheimers Disease Research | Clarksburg, MD | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
17 of 63 (27%) 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 28%, 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Jewish United Fund
EXEMPT PURPOSE OF ORGANIZATION
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 66 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 21 | $17,550 | $250 |
| 2022 | 15 | $21,650 | $500 |
| 2023 | 17 | $21,690 | $250 |
| 2024 | 23 | $23,910 | $250 |
| 2025 | 16 | $25,240 | $400 |
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
60% of its giving went to organizations in Illinois. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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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.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $250. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Illinois.
- 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.
- 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 Ehrlichman Family 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: 74 Oakvale, Highland Park, IL, 60035. 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.
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