Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Highland Park, Illinois

71
foundations with a Highland Park address
$94.7M
grants paid, FY2023–FY2025
9
say they accept unsolicited
$5,000
median grant

Grantlas lists 71 foundations that gave a Highland Park, Illinois address on their tax filing — 70 private foundations and 1 grantmaking charity — from filings for FY2023–FY2025. Together they paid out $94.7 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 9 of them (13%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Highland Park foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 71 foundations

Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing, with the ones that accept unsolicited requests first, then the ones whose filing doesn’t say.

Foundations in Highland Park, Illinois
The Simon Family FoundationAccepts$100,000$5.9M$5,000–$550,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Ploughshares FoundationAccepts$5,000$3.6M$999–$85,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
First Bank Chicago FoundationAccepts$1,000$451,856$50–$34,690FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Foxman Family FoundationAccepts$12,000$433,715$264–$305,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Harken FoundationAccepts$500$250,080$50–$73,116FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Lieber Charitable TrustAccepts$10,000$70,500$3,000–$10,020FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Ehrlichman Family FoundationAccepts$250$25,240$90–$11,250FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Shantinath Educational FoundationAccepts$5,000$12,500$2,500–$15,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Nj Jacobs Family FoundationAccepts$275$600$250–$300FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Highland Park Community FoundationCommunity foundationNot stated$13,713Over $5k only$1M$5,500–$105,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Eleven Eleven FoundationInvitation only$50,000$27.6M$1,000–$7.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Wayfarer FoundationInvitation only$87,500$23.9M$250–$4.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Julian Grace FoundationInvitation only$60,000$8.1M$1,000–$310,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Sacks Family FoundationInvitation only$50,000$7M$1,000–$1.1MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Sheba FoundationInvitation only$20,879$4.4M$263–$1.1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Donald M Ephraim FamilyInvitation only$750$1.2M$100–$754,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Dolores Kohl Education FoundationInvitation only$2,250$1.2M$50–$410,100FY2023Locked: fit score and contacts
Ilene & Michael Shaw Charitable Trust IInvitation only$648,650$628,650$628,650–$668,650FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Irving & Marilyn NaiditchInvitation only$1,500$570,750$100–$200,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Sam I Am FoundationInvitation only$5,000$565,653$50–$350,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Steve and Janice HefterInvitation only$25,000$550,800$2,600–$150,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Leva Family FoundationInvitation only$1,100$503,101$44–$60,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Pattis Family FoundationInvitation only$387,899$502,998$272,800–$502,998FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Peter and Carol Goldman FamilyInvitation only$2,000$489,702$100–$105,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Frank & Dolores Corbett Charitable FundInvitation only$10,000$488,500$1,000–$100,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from each funder’s grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report. Community foundations and other charities list only grants over $5,000, so their figures run high.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.
  • A median grant larger than the grants paid is not a mistake: the grant schedule and the year’s total come from different parts of the tax filing, and a foundation can list a grant it approved in a year it paid out less.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2023–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.