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The Gies Foundation

Name: The Gies Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

46
grants reported: $5.1M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $34,650
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

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Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Chicago Jesuit Academy4 grants · $2.7M
Thomas Jefferson University2 grants · $500,000
Accelerate Institute4 grants · $452,500
Huntington'S Disease Society2 grants · $340,500
By the Hand Club for Kids4 grants · $258,000
Culver Academies3 grants · $175,000
Christ the King Academy2 grants · $147,000
Glenwood School for Boys3 grants · $107,300
Holy Trinity High School2 grants · $76,275
Geneva Community Unit School District3 grants · $50,750

Giving over time

$1.1M

2022

$834,500

2023

$1.1M

2024

$2.1M

2025

Grant history

All 46 reported grants, largest first.

$1.7M
Chicago Jesuit Academy · Chicago, IL · 2025
To offer children with educational and economic needs access to a catholic, college preparattory middle school education in the jesuit tradition.
$767,500
Chicago Jesuit Academy · Chicago, IL · 2024
To offer children with educational and economic needs access to a catholic, college preparattory middle school education in the jesuit tradition.
$250,000
Thomas Jefferson University · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
To challenge and nuture students academically and personally as they prepare to lead lives of leadership and service.
$250,000
Thomas Jefferson University · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
To challenge and nuture students academically and personally as they prepare to lead lives of leadership and service
$214,500
Huntington'S Disease Society · St Charles, IL · 2022
To improve the lives of everyone affected by huntington's disease through community services, education, advocacy and research.
$200,000
Accelerate Institute · Chicago, IL · 2022
To create transformational school leaders to ensure that children growing up in poverty have access to great schools.
$171,205
Chicago Jesuit Academy · Chicago, IL · 2022
To offer children with educational and economic needs access to a catholic, college preparattory middle school education in the jesuit tradition.
$126,000
Huntington'S Disease Society · St Charles, IL · 2023
To improve the lives of everyone affected by huntington's disease through community services, education, advocacy and research.
$110,000
Chicago Jesuit Academy · Chicago, IL · 2023
To offer children with educational and economic needs access to a catholic, college preparattory middle school education in the jesuit tradition.
$103,200
By the Hand Club for Kids · Chicago, IL · 2023
To help children who live in under-resourced neighborhoods have abundant lives.
$102,500
Accelerate Institute · Chicago, IL · 2025
To create transformational school leaders to ensure that children growing up in poverty have access to great schools.
$100,000
Culver Academies · Culver, IN · 2022
To develop and nurture the whole individual through integrated programs that emphasize the cultivation of character.
$98,000
Christ the King Academy · Chicago, IL · 2025
To offer children with educational and economic needs access to a catholic, college preparattory school education in the jesuit tradition.
$75,000
Accelerate Institute · Chicago, IL · 2024
To create transformational school leaders to ensure that children growing up in poverty have access to great schools.
$75,000
Accelerate Institute · Chicago, IL · 2023
To create transformational school leaders to ensure that children growing up in poverty have access to great schools.
$51,600
By the Hand Club for Kids · Chicago, IL · 2025
To help children who live in under-resourced neighborhoods have abundant lives.
$51,600
By the Hand Club for Kids · Chicago, IL · 2024
To help children who live in under-resourced neighborhoods have abundant lives.
$51,600
By the Hand Club for Kids · Chicago, IL · 2022
To help children who live in under-resourced neighborhoods have abundant lives
$50,850
Holy Trinity High School · Chicago, IL · 2025
To help students with educational and economic needs have access to a catholic school.
$50,000
Culver Academies · Culver, IN · 2023
To develop and nurture the whole individual through integrated programs that emphasize the cultivation of character.
$49,000
Christ the King Academy · Chicago, IL · 2024
To offer children with educational and economic needs access to a catholic, college preparattory school education in the jesuit tradition.
$38,000
Glenwood School for Boys · Glenwood, IL · 2025
To help children and families who live in cycles of poverty, injustice, and inequity.
$38,000
Glenwood School for Boys · Glenwood, IL · 2024
To help children and families who live in cycles of poverty, injustice, and inequity.
$31,300
Glenwood School for Boys · Glenwood, IL · 2022
To provide a supportive learning community for students and their families who have been impacted by poverty, violence, inadequate educational systems or lack of resources.
$25,425
Holy Trinity High School · Chicago, IL · 2024
To help students with educational and economic needs have access to a catholic school.
$25,000
Gigi'S Playhouse · Chicago, IL · 2025
GiGi's Playhouse offers therapeutic, educational and research-driven programs to individuals of all ages with Down syndrome. We make a lifetime commitment to changing lives and providing hope through the consistent deli… read allGiGi's Playhouse offers therapeutic, educational and research-driven programs to individuals of all ages with Down syndrome. We make a lifetime commitment to changing lives and providing hope through the consistent delivery of educational, therapeutic, and career development programs for individuals with Down syndrome, their families, and the community, using a replicable playhouse model. less
$25,000
Culver Academies · Culver, IN · 2024
To develop and nurture the whole individual through integrated programs that emphasize the cultivation of character.
$25,000
Teach for America · New York, NY · 2023
To enlist, develop and mobilize our nation's most promising future leaders to grow and strengthen the movement for educational equity and excellence.
$25,000
Teach for America · New York, NY · 2022
To enlist, develop and mobilize our nation's most promising future leaders to grow and strengthen the movement for educational equity and excellence.
$20,300
Geneva Community Unit School District · Geneva, IL · 2023
To help students become self-directed lifelong learners, effective communicators, complex, creative, and adaptive thinkers and collaborative and productive citizens.
$20,300
Geneva Community Unit School District · Geneva, IL · 2022
To help students become self-directed lifelong learners, effective communicators, complex, creative, and adaptive thinkers and collaborative and productive citizens.
$20,000
Link Scholars Unlimited · Chicago, IL · 2023
To support low-income, academically struggling young learners by providing rigorous literacy instruction and enrichment programs to help students achieve measurable success - and to inspire life-long learning.
$20,000
Link Scholars Unlimited · Chicago, IL · 2022
To support low-income, academically struggling young learners by providing rigorous literacy instruction and enrichment programs to help students achieve measurable success - and to inspire life-long learning
$15,000
Royal Family Kids Camp · Santa Ana, CA · 2024
To support camps and clubs for children in the foster care system.
$15,000
Casa Kane County · Geneva, IL · 2023
To help children in the foster care system have safe, nurturing, and permanent homes.
$15,000
Royal Family Kids Camp · Santa Ana, CA · 2023
To support camps and clubs for children in the foster care system.
$15,000
Royal Family Kids Camp · Santa Ana, CA · 2022
To support camps and clubs for children in the foster care system.
$10,150
Geneva Community Unit School District · Geneva, IL · 2024
To help students become self-directed lifelong learners, effective communicators, complex, creative, and adaptive thinkers and collaborative and productive citizens.
$10,000
Link Scholars Unlimited · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support low-income, academically struggling young learners by providing rigorous literacy instruction and enrichment programs to help students achieve measurable success - and to inspire life-long learning.
$10,000
Misericordia Women'S League · Western Springs, IL · 2024
To raise funds for and provide service to misericordia heart of mercy center.
$10,000
Global Youth Force · Wheaton, IL · 2023
To help empower young leaders to be a force for good in the world.
$10,000
Misericordia Women'S League · Western Springs, IL · 2023
To raise funds for and provide service to misericordia heart of mercy center.
$10,000
Misericordia Women'S League · Western Springs, IL · 2022
To raise funds for and provide service to misericordia heart of mercy center.
$5,000
Chicago Area Track and Field · St Joseph, IL · 2025
The Chicago area offers a vibrant track and field community with various clubs, events, and facilities for athletes of all ages.
$5,000
Merit School of Music · Chicago, IL · 2023
To transform the lives of chicago-area youth through removing barriers to high-quality music education.
$5,000
Merit School of Music · Chicago, IN · 2022
To transform the lives of chicago-area youth through removing barriers to high-quality music education.

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