2025 Grants and Awards
Education, opportunity, health, and hope for all.
That is the vision behind the Fry Foundation’s grantmaking.
We provide support to nonprofit organizations that have the strength and commitment to improve conditions for low-income, underserved Chicago residents.
Grants are awarded in three major areas:
Arts Learning, Education, and Employment.
Across all of our funding areas, our focus is on helping organizations:
Build capacity to enhance the quality of services and better assess the impact of programs;
Develop successful program innovations that other organizations in the field can learn from or adopt; and
Share knowledge so that information which can help low-income communities and individuals is widely and readily available.
2025 Grants and Awards Totals
| Arts Learning | $1,650,000 |
| Education | $2,185,000 |
| Employment | $1,510,000 |
| Health* | $1,585,000 |
| Special Purposes | $2,103,835 |
| World Relief | $300,000 |
| Total | $9,333,835 |
*At their board meeting on November 14, 2023, the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation’s Board of Directors made the decision to phase out funding in its Health program area. The total listed here and the Health grants listed below represent the final Health payments.
For FY2025, $725,000 of the grant award total supported convening and collaborations in the Education, Employment, Health and Special Purposes Programs.