Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation
Private foundation · Chicago, IL · EIN 36-2488355 · reported 2023–2025
230grants reported
$15Kmedian award
$10Klower quartile
$6,250smallest grant
$3.2Mtotal paid
2states reached
3years giving
This foundation funds faith-based organizations. 14 of its 230 reported grants went to churches, ministries or other religious organizations, $205K in total. That is what it paid, not what it says in a policy.
Gives every year. This foundation reported grants in 2023, 2024, 2025. A funder that shows up year after year is worth a letter even if this year is a no.
Where to write
200 W Madison St Ste 300
Chicago, IL 60606-3482
Address as registered with the IRS. Most foundations this size have no website and no application form, which is not a dead end: a short letter to this address is the whole process, and almost nobody sends one.
Who they funded
| Recipient and stated purpose | Where | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Community Health For General Operating Support of this free health care center which provides uninsured and low-incom | Chicago, IL | $20,000 |
| Connections for Abused Women and Their Children For General Operating Support. CAWC's comprehensive domestic violence services include crisis interv | Wheaton, IL | $20,000 |
| Franciscan Outreach Association For General Operating Support to provide emergency shelter, transitional housing, rapid rehousing, c | Chicago, IL | $20,000 |
| Heartland Alliance International For General Operating Support of the Kovler Center, which provide critical trauma-informed services | Chicago, IL | $20,000 |
| Kan-Win (korean American Women in Need) For General Operating Support. KAN-WIN serves Asian American domestic violence and sexual assault su | Chicago, IL | $20,000 |
| South Suburban Pads For General Operating Support. Programs and Services include Prevention (emergency funds), Street Ou | Oak Park, IL | $20,000 |
| Center on Halsted (formerly Horizons Community Services) For the Behavioral Health Services, which provides LGBTQ+ community in Chicago with comprehensive bi | Chicago, IL | $20,000 |
| Community Health For General Operating Support of this free health care center which provides uninsured and low-incom | Chicago, IL | $20,000 |
| Connections for the Homeless For General Operating Support. Programs and services include eviction prevention, daytime drop-in ce | Evanston, IL | $20,000 |
| Franciscan Outreach Association For General Operating Support. They provide emergency shelter, transitional housing, rapid rehousing | Chicago, IL | $20,000 |
| Heartland Alliance For General Operating Support of the Kovler Center, which provide critical trauma-informed services | Chicago, IL | $20,000 |
| Kan-Win (korean American Women in Need) For General Operating Support. Programs include multi-lingual crisis hotline, legal clinic, advocacy | Park Ridge, IL | $20,000 |
| Refugee One (formerly Interfaith Refugee and Immigration Ministries) For the Wellness Program for Refugee Youth, which addresses the mental health needs of youth in Chic | Chicago, IL | $20,000 |
| Resilience (formerly Rape Victim Advocates) For General Operating Support. Resilience empowers people and communities to help prevent sexual vio | Chicago, IL | $20,000 |
| South Suburban Pads For General Operating Support. Programs & Services include Prevention (emergency funds), Street Outr | Chicago Heights, IL | $20,000 |
| Center on Halsted (formerly Horizons Community Services) Center on Halsted (formerly Horizons Community Services) | Chicago, IL | $20,000 |
| Connections for the Homeless Connections for the Homeless | Evanston, IL | $20,000 |
| Franciscan Outreach Association Franciscan Outreach Association | Chicago, IL | $20,000 |
| Kan-Win (korean American Women in Need) KAN-WIN (Korean American Women in Need) | Park Ridge, IL | $20,000 |
| Refugee One (formerly Interfaith Refugee and Immigration Ministries) Refugee One (formerly Interfaith Refugee and Immigration Ministries) | Chicago, IL | $20,000 |
| South Suburban Pads South Suburban PADS | Country Club Hills, IL | $20,000 |
| The Boulevard of Chicago (formerly Interfaith House) The Boulevard of Chicago (Formerly Interfaith House) | Chicago, IL | $20,000 |
| Deborah's Place For General Operating Support. Deborah's Place provides housing and comprehensive supportive service | Chicago, IL | $17,500 |
| Deborah's Place For General Operating Support. Deborah's Place provides housing and comprehensive supportive service | Chicago, IL | $17,500 |
| Deborah's Place Deborah's Place | Chicago, IL | $17,500 |
| Margaret's Village (formerly Institute of Women Today) For General Operating Support. The agency operates Maria's Shelter, a 50-bed interim shelter for wom | Chicago, IL | $15,500 |
| Alexian Brothers Housing & Health Alliance For Bonaventure House, a transitional housing program for formerly homeless adults living with HIV/A | Chicago, IL | $15,000 |
| Apna Ghar Inc (our Home) For General Operating Support. Apna Ghar provides comprehensive culturally competent services, outre | Homewood, IL | $15,000 |
| Beds Plus Care For General Operating Support. Beds provides housing and stabilization services to individuals and f | Chicago, IL | $15,000 |
| Brave Space Alliance For Health Programming. BSA currently offers onsite HIV/STI testing along with medical referrals for | Chicago, IL | $15,000 |
| Bridge Communities For General Operating Support. Bridge Communities' programs aim to transition homeless families in D | Glen Ellyn, IL | $15,000 |
| Chicago Children's Advocacy Center For General Operating Support. ChicagoCAC provides child survivors of sexual abuse in Chicago with c | Chicago, IL | $15,000 |
| Chicago Coalition for the Homeless For the Youth Futures Legal Clinic, which provides legal aid and representation to students and yout | Chicago, IL | $15,000 |
| Chicago Community Foundation Immigrant Funders Collaborative | Chicago, IL | $15,000 |
| Chinese American Service League For Behavioral Health and Clinical Services Program, which offers uninsured individuals and families | Chicago, IL | $15,000 |
| Christian Outreach of Lutherans For the Family Housing Program, a transitional housing program for homeless families with children i | Carol Stream, IL | $15,000 |
| Facing Forward (formerly Interfaith Council for the Homeless) For General Operating Support. They provide individuals and families in Chicago with Permanent Suppo | Chicago, IL | $15,000 |
| Family Health Partnership Clinic For General Operating Support. FHPC provides a medical home for the uninsured in McHenry County. The | Chicago, IL | $15,000 |
| Family Rescue For General Operating Support of comprehensive services for domestic violence survivors and their ch | Chicago, IL | $15,000 |
| Home of the Sparrow For General Operating Support. HOS provides women and their children who are homelessness in McHenry | Lemont, IL | $15,000 |
| Housing Forward (formerly West Suburban Pads) For General Operating. They provide people experiencing homelessness in west suburban Cook with emer | Evanston, IL | $15,000 |
| Howard Brown Health Center For Broadway Youth Center, a drop-in center for LGBTQ and unstably housed youth in Chicago's Lakevie | Chicago, IL | $15,000 |
| Ignite (formerly Teen Living Programs) For General Operating Support. Ignite provides homeless youth, age 14-24, in Bronzeville neighborhoo | Chicago, IL | $15,000 |
| Infant Welfare Society of Chicago For General Operating Support of the Angel Harvey Family Clinic, which provides medical, dental, opt | Palatine, IL | $15,000 |
| Iws Children's Clinic For General Operating Support. The Clinic is a pediatric health clinic & medical home, providing med | Evanston, IL | $15,000 |
| Journeys-The Road Home For General Operating Support to provide shelter, social services and affordable housing to individu | Chicago, IL | $15,000 |
| LA Casa Norte For General Operating Support. LCN serves youth and families facing homelessness in Chicago's west a | Chicago, IL | $15,000 |
| Lake County Haven For General Operating Support. Lake County Haven provides women and their children who are homeless | Chicago, IL | $15,000 |
| Law Center for Better Housing (formerly Lawyers Committee for Better Housin Tenant Supportive Services | Chicago, IL | $15,000 |
| Lazarus House For General Operating Support. Lazarus House provides emergency shelter, and transitional living for | Chicago, IL | $15,000 |
| Margaret's Village (formerly Institute of Women Today) For General Operating Support. The agency operates Maria's Shelter, a 50-bed interim shelter for wom | Park Ridge, IL | $15,000 |
| Mobile Care Foundation For General Operating Support. Mobile Care provides no-cost medical/preventative care, education, an | Aurora, IL | $15,000 |
| Mutual Ground For General Operating Support. Mutual Ground is the only service provider of domestic and sexual vio | Wheaton, IL | $15,000 |
| New Moms For General Operating Support, serving young mothers and their children in need of housing stability | Chicago, IL | $15,000 |
| North Side Housing & Supportive Services (formerly Lakeview Shelter) For General Operating Support. Funds will be used towards programs and comprehensive services for in | Chicago, IL | $15,000 |
| Nourishing Hope (formerly Lakeview Pantry) For General Operating Support. Hunger is often connected to unemployment, homelessness, and mental h | Chicago, IL | $15,000 |
| Of Color Inc For General Operating Support. Funds will support job training, skills building and employment place | Waukegan, IL | $15,000 |
| Primo Center for Women and Children For General Operating Support. The Center provides housing and services to families who are homeless | Chicago, IL | $15,000 |
| Respond Now For General Operating Support. They provide health, hunger and housing services to low-income indivi | Flossmoor, IL | $15,000 |
| Sarah's Circle For General Operating Support of women who are homeless/at-risk of being homeless in Chicago's Uptow | Aurora, IL | $15,000 |
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