Funding search · EIN 843791888 · Chicago, IL

Ralla Klepak Performing Arts Foundation

Name: Ralla Klepak Performing Arts Foundation grants, 2021–2025
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.

127
grants reported: $23.2M
total given: 2021–2025
filing years: $150,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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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.

5 grants matching “chai” · $2.1M

$536,000
Chai Lifeline Midwest · Lincolnwood, IL · 2025
Program Support
$500,000
Chai Lifeline Midwest · Lincolnwood, IL · 2024
Program Support
$410,000
Chai Lifeline Midwest · Lincolnwood, IL · 2023
Program Support
$192,600
Chai Lifeline Midwest · Lincolnwood, IL · 2022
Program Support
$480,000
Chai Lifeline Midwest · Lincolnwood, IL · 2021
Program Support

Top recipients

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

Chai Lifeline Midwest5 grants · $2.1M
Merit School of Music5 grants · $1.9M
The Ark4 grants · $1.3M
Yachad Chicago4 grants · $1.1M
Jdby3 grants · $900,000
Northlight Theater3 grants · $865,000
Agudath Israel of Chicago4 grants · $863,000
The Chicago Center for Music Educat3 grants · $775,000
Ncsy Mid3 grants · $750,000
Chicago Chesed Fund3 grants · $704,425

Giving over time

$4.8M

2021

$3.5M

2022

$5.0M

2023

$5.0M

2024

$4.9M

2025

Grant history

The 100 largest of 127 grants.

$1.1M
Merit School of Music · Chicago, IL · 2025
Program Support
$550,000
Midwest Refuah · Chicago, IL · 2025
Program Support
$536,000
Chai Lifeline Midwest · Lincolnwood, IL · 2025
Program Support
$500,000
The Ark · Chicago, IL · 2025
Program Support
$500,000
The Chicago Center for Music Educat · Lincolnwood, IL · 2025
Program Support
$500,000
Chai Lifeline Midwest · Lincolnwood, IL · 2024
Program Support
$500,000
Merit School of Music · Chicago, IL · 2024
Program Support
$500,000
Sarah Hartman Institute · Chicago, IL · 2024
Program Support
$480,000
Chai Lifeline Midwest · Lincolnwood, IL · 2021
Program Support
$450,000
Ncsy Mid · Skokie, IL · 2025
Program Support
$415,000
Ravinia Festival · Highland Park, IL · 2024
Program Support
$410,000
Chai Lifeline Midwest · Lincolnwood, IL · 2023
Program Support
$400,000
Jdby · Chicago, IL · 2024
Program Support
$370,000
Yachad Chicago · Skokie, IL · 2021
Program Support
$350,000
The Ark · Chicago, IL · 2024
Program Support
$347,000
Blitstein Institute · Chicago, IL · 2021
Program Support
$339,500
Chicago Chesed Fund · Lincolnwood, IL · 2023
Program Support
$335,925
Chicago Chesed Fund · Lincolnwood, IL · 2021
Program Support
$315,000
Northlight Theater · Skokie, IL · 2022
Program Support
$300,000
Wesleyan University of Illinois · Bloomington, IL · 2023
Program Support
$300,000
Jdby · Chicago, IL · 2021
Program Support
$300,000
Northlight Theater · Skokie, IL · 2021
Program Support
$280,000
Yachad Chicago · Skokie, IL · 2024
Program Support
$280,000
Yachad Chicago · Skokie, IL · 2023
Program Support
$250,000
Agudath Israel of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2025
Program Support
$250,000
Arie Crown Hebrew Day School · Skokie, IL · 2025
Program Support
$250,000
Northlight Theater · Skokie, IL · 2024
Program Support
$250,000
Ravinia Festival · Highland Park, IL · 2023
Program Support
$250,000
The Ark · Chicago, IL · 2023
Program Support
$250,000
Merit School of Music · Chicago, IL · 2022
Program Support
$250,000
Steppenwolf Theater · Chicago, IL · 2021
Program Support
$225,000
Torah Mitzion Kolel · Skokie, IL · 2025
Program Support
$225,000
Agudath Israel of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Program Support
$220,000
Wfmt · Chicago, IL · 2021
Program Support
$208,000
Agudath Israel of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
Program Support
$200,000
Chicago Childrens Theater · Chicago, IL · 2024
Program Support
$200,000
Search · Chicago, IL · 2024
Program Support
$200,000
Tapestry 360 Health · Chicago, IL · 2024
Program Support
$200,000
Jdby · Chicago, IL · 2023
Program Support
$200,000
Tapestry 360 Health · Chicago, IL · 2023
Program Support
$200,000
Heartland Health · Morton, IL · 2022
Program Support
$200,000
Kumba Lynx · Chicago, IL · 2022
Program Support
$200,000
Timeless Gifts · Chicago, IL · 2022
Program Support
$200,000
Wesleyan University of Illinois · Bloomington, IL · 2021
Program Support
$197,000
Arie Crown Hebrew Day School · Skokie, IL · 2023
Program Support
$192,600
Chai Lifeline Midwest · Lincolnwood, IL · 2022
Program Support
$185,000
Wesleyan University of Illinois · Bloomington, IL · 2022
Program Support
$180,000
Young Chicago Authors · Chicago, IL · 2022
Program Support
$180,000
Agudath Israel of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2021
Program Support
$175,000
The Chicago Center for Music Educat · Lincolnwood, IL · 2023
Program Support
$175,000
Chime Music Academy · Chicago, IL · 2022
Program Support
$175,000
The Ark · Chicago, IL · 2022
Program Support
$175,000
Changing Worlds · Chicago, IL · 2021
Program Support
$165,000
Ida Crown Academy · Skokie, IL · 2023
Program Support
$155,000
Timeless Gifts · Chicago, IL · 2023
Program Support
$150,000
The People'S Music School · Chicago, IL · 2025
Program Support
$150,000
Bais Yaakov High School · Chicago, IL · 2024
Program Support
$150,000
Center On Halsted · Chicago, IL · 2024
Program Support
$150,000
Chicago Poetry Center · Chicago, IL · 2024
Program Support
$150,000
Soulu Sb Upward Community · Chicago, IL · 2024
Program Support
$150,000
Bais Yaakov High School · Chicago, IL · 2023
Program Support
$150,000
Changing Worlds · Chicago, IL · 2023
Program Support
$150,000
Lubavich Girls High School · Chicago, IL · 2023
Program Support
$150,000
Ncsy Mid · Skokie, IL · 2023
Program Support
$150,000
Southside Community Center · Chicago, IL · 2023
Program Support
$150,000
Ncsy Mid · Skokie, IL · 2022
Program Support
$150,000
Madraigos Midwest · Chicago, IL · 2021
Program Support
$150,000
Metropolitan Family Services · Skokie, IL · 2021
Program Support
$138,600
Yeshiva Ohr Eliyahu · Chicago, IL · 2025
Program Support
$135,000
Wfmt · Chicago, IL · 2022
Program Support
$133,000
Chicago Poetry Center · Chicago, IL · 2021
Program Support
$130,000
Yachad Chicago · Skokie, IL · 2022
Program Support
$110,000
Chicago Childrens Theater · Chicago, IL · 2023
Program Support
$110,000
Soulu Sb Upward Community · Chicago, IL · 2023
Program Support
$110,000
Wfmt · Chicago, IL · 2023
Program Support
$105,000
Center On Halsted · Chicago, IL · 2023
Program Support
$105,000
Vandercook College of Music · Chicago, IL · 2023
Program Support
$105,000
Center On Halsted · Chicago, IL · 2022
Program Support
$105,000
Heartland Health · Morton, IL · 2021
Program Support
$100,000
Harold and Rosemarie Marx Memorial · Chicago, IL · 2025
Program Support
$100,000
Harold and Rosemarie Marx Memorial · Chicago, IL · 2024
Program Support
$100,000
Mesifta Shaarei Adirim · Skokie, IL · 2024
Program Support
$100,000
The Chicago Center for Music Educat · Lincolnwood, IL · 2024
Program Support
$100,000
Merit School of Music · Chicago, IL · 2023
Program Support
$100,000
Mesifta Shaarei Adirim · Skokie, IL · 2023
Program Support
$100,000
Metropolitan Family Services · Skokie, IL · 2023
Program Support
$100,000
American Jewish Committee · Chicago, IL · 2022
Program Support
$100,000
Centro Romero · Chicago, IL · 2022
Program Support
$100,000
Chicago Childrens Theater · Chicago, IL · 2022
Program Support
$100,000
Mesivta Shaarei · Skokie, IL · 2022
Program Support
$100,000
American Jewish Committee · Chicago, IL · 2021
Program Support
$100,000
Chicago Childrens Theater · Chicago, IL · 2021
Program Support
$100,000
Chime Music Academy · Chicago, IL · 2021
Program Support
$100,000
Freedom Church · Lansing, IL · 2021
Program Support
$100,000
Griffin Institute of Performing Art · Matteson, IL · 2021
Program Support
$100,000
Kumba Lynx · Chicago, IL · 2021
Program Support
$100,000
The Chicago Center · Lincolnwood, IL · 2021
Program Support
$100,000
Timeless Gifts · Chicago, IL · 2021
Program Support
$100,000
Young Chicago Authors · Chicago, IL · 2021
Program Support
$96,500
Glenwood Academy · Chicago, IL · 2022
Program Support

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The Big Ten Conference60 grants · $3.91B

Similar grant size

The Ford Foundation10,731 grants · $2.35B
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)7,100 grants · $1.67B
Wk Kellogg Foundation7,234 grants · $1.30B

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.