The Herbert Rose Trust Consolidation concentrates its philanthropy on supporting child welfare and family services, primarily through large, unrestricted gifts to Children's Home & Aid Society. Grants are sizable and designed as general operating support, indicating a preference for funding core capacity rather than restricted program projects. Though based in Dallas, the foundation’s giving in this data is directed to established child-serving organizations in Illinois and shows a pattern of repeat support to the same institution.
Highly concentrated: very few, large grants focused on a single organization (repeat grantee) and provided as unrestricted/general support.
Herbert Rose Trust Consolidation’s clearest pattern is repeated large unrestricted support for child welfare providers in Chicago. Across the latest grants on file, the foundation gave six-figure general support to Children's Home & Aid Society in 2023, 2024, and 2025, indicating sustained backing for an established Illinois-based service organization rather than short-term project funding. It also extended general support to Chicago Foundlings Home, adding a second child-serving institution in the same city to its recent grant history. The trust’s giving profile points to flexible institutional funding: awards are labeled unrestricted general support, and the largest recent grants are concentrated at a scale well above the foundation’s smaller awards. That pattern suggests a preference for core operating capacity in organizations serving children and families. Although Herbert Rose Trust Consolidation is headquartered in Dallas, its documented grantmaking in this dataset is directed entirely to Illinois recipients, with Chicago appearing repeatedly across the recent grants list. The foundation’s priorities, as reflected here, center on foster care, adoption, and family-strengthening services, with child welfare as the most visible thread across its grant history.
Child welfare is the strongest theme in Herbert Rose Trust Consolidation’s recent giving. In 2023, it awarded $603,757 to Children's Home & Aid Society in Chicago for unrestricted general support, and that same organization received another unrestricted grant of $552,334 in 2024 and $546,775 in 2025. Those repeated awards show sustained support for a child-serving institution across multiple years. The trust also backed another Chicago-based nonprofit serving children and families. Chicago Foundlings Home received $25,000 in 2024 and $21,000 in 2023, both labeled unrestricted general support, which places the organization alongside the larger child welfare grantee in the foundation’s recent portfolio. Taken together, the grants point to support for foster care, adoption, and family-strengthening services through established nonprofits rather than narrowly defined projects.
The foundation’s recent grant sizes are spread from a p25 of $25,000 to a median of $285,888 and a p75 of $550,944, showing a mix of smaller support grants and much larger institutional awards. The pattern also includes repeat funding across multiple years, especially for the same Chicago child-welfare organizations. Grants in the data are unrestricted general support, which points to flexible operating support rather than project-restricted giving. Herbert Rose Trust Consolidation is not a funder of individuals and does not make program-related investments.
$650K
$7.6M
$605K
$779K
Most grants fall between $25K and $551K, with a median of $286K.
25th Percentile
$25K
Median
$286K
75th Percentile
$551K
About 0% of grants go to recipients in IL.
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Notable grantees: Children's Home & Aid Society Illinois, Children's Home & Aid Society
All recent grants in the dataset went to U.S. recipients, with Illinois receiving the most grants by count. Chicago is the central city in the record: both Children's Home & Aid Society and Chicago Foundlings Home are located there, and the top state by grant count is IL. Although the foundation is headquartered in Dallas, none of the documented grants went to recipients in Texas.
The recent record centers on child welfare and family services. The foundation supported Children's Home & Aid Society and Chicago Foundlings Home with unrestricted general grants, and the existing focus areas identify foster care, adoption, and family-strengthening services in Illinois as the main themes.
Yes. Every recent grant listed is labeled unrestricted general support, including three large awards to Children's Home & Aid Society and smaller gifts to Chicago Foundlings Home. That pattern suggests a preference for flexible operating funding.
The typical grant-size distribution is p25 $25,000, median $285,888, and p75 $550,944. That mix shows both small support grants and much larger institutional awards.
Illinois is the top state by grant count in the data, and Chicago is the most visible city among recipients. All grants shown went to U.S. organizations, with no grants in the foundation’s home state of Texas.
Yes. Children's Home & Aid Society received grants in 2023, 2024, and 2025, and Chicago Foundlings Home received grants in 2023 and 2024. That repetition points to ongoing relationships rather than one-time awards.
2026
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2026.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY ILLINOIS | CHICAGO, IL | $622,000 | 2026 | UNRESTRICTED GENERAL |
| CHICAGO FOUNDLINGS HOME | CHICAGO, IL | $28,000 | 2026 | UNRESTRICTED GENERAL |
| CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY ILLINOIS | CHICAGO, IL | $546,775 | 2025 | UNRESTRICTED GENERAL |
| CHICAGO FOUNDLINGS HOME | CHICAGO, IL | $25,000 | 2025 | UNRESTRICTED GENERAL |
| CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY ILLINOIS | CHICAGO, IL | $552,334 | 2024 | UNRESTRICTED GENERAL |
| CHICAGO FOUNDLINGS HOME | CHICAGO, IL | $25,000 | 2024 | UNRESTRICTED GENERAL |
| CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY | CHICAGO, IL | $603,757 | 2023 | UUNRESTRICTED GENERAL |
| CHICAGO FOUNDLINGS HOME | CHICAGO, IL | $21,000 | 2023 | UUNRESTRICTED GENERAL |
CHICAGO FOUNDLINGS HOME
$28,000UNRESTRICTED GENERAL
CHICAGO FOUNDLINGS HOME
$25,000UNRESTRICTED GENERAL
CHICAGO FOUNDLINGS HOME
UNRESTRICTED GENERAL
CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY
$603,757UUNRESTRICTED GENERAL
CHICAGO FOUNDLINGS HOME
$21,000UUNRESTRICTED GENERAL