The Husain Family Foundation concentrates its funding on postsecondary access and youth development, preferring flexible, unrestricted grants that support scholarship programs, college-focused initiatives, and residential youth experiences. It makes relatively large awards to a small set of repeat grantees—including university foundations and local college-access organizations—while also making occasional gifts to youth and reentry service providers.
Concentrated, high-dollar unrestricted grants to a small number of repeat core grantees; few total grants but substantial amounts per award.
Three consecutive $83,333 unrestricted grants to Evanston Scholars show the clearest pattern in Husain Family Foundation Inc’s recent giving: sustained support for college access rather than one-time project funding. The foundation pairs that kind of repeated commitment with other flexible awards to education and youth-serving organizations, including Indiana State University Foundation, Camp Catanese Fdn, and Facing Forward. Its recent grants are mostly unrestricted, which suggests a preference for general support that recipients can apply where needed most. The portfolio also shows a mix of higher-education and youth-development interests. University-related gifts sit alongside awards to organizations serving students, residential youth experiences, and people in transitional services. The foundation’s recurring support for some grantees across multiple years points to ongoing relationships rather than ad hoc philanthropy. At the same time, its grant list includes smaller gifts to food-access nonprofits and other community organizations, indicating a range that extends beyond its core education theme. Across the recent record, the foundation gives to a relatively small set of organizations and uses grant sizes that can reach six figures over time when a grantee is supported year after year.
College access is the clearest theme in the foundation’s giving. It awarded $83,333 to Evanston Scholars in 2025 for unrestricted use, alongside smaller unrestricted grants to Eths Foundation in Evanston in 2023, 2024, and 2025. That pattern points to consistent support for scholarship and college-focused work. Higher education also appears through unrestricted gifts to Indiana State University Foundation in 2024 and 2025, including a $55,000 grant in each year and a smaller $5,000 grant in 2023. The foundation’s support for Camp Catanese Fdn in Phoenix came as a $50,000 unrestricted grant, fitting its youth-development interest in residential or camp-based programming. In transitional services, Facing Forward received unrestricted grants in 2023, 2024, and 2025, including a $30,000 gift in 2025.
Typical awards fall at $5,000 at the 25th percentile, $15,000 at the median, and $45,000 at the 75th percentile. The recent record shows repeated giving to the same organizations over multiple years, especially in education and youth development, rather than isolated one-off grants. Every listed grant is unrestricted use, aligning with a flexible-support style. The foundation does not fund individuals and is not identified as making program-related investments. Its grantmaking appears regional, with a concentrated set of recipients rather than broad, scattered giving.
$595K
$1.2M
$19K
$280K
Most grants fall between $5K and $45K, with a median of $15K.
25th Percentile
$5K
Median
$15K
75th Percentile
$45K
About 9% of grants go to recipients in IL.
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Notable grantees: Evanston Scholars, Indiana State University Foundation, Camp Catanese Foundation, Facing Forward
Grant recipients are all in the United States. Illinois receives the largest share of awards, with repeated gifts to organizations in Evanston and Chicago. Indiana also appears several times, including Terre Haute and Saint Mary-of-the-Wood. Arizona shows up through Phoenix and Cave Creek, while North Carolina appears with Boone. The foundation’s own headquarters is in Scottsdale, but most grants go elsewhere, led by Illinois recipients.
The recent grants are all listed as unrestricted use. That includes repeated support for Evanston Scholars, Indiana State University Foundation, and Facing Forward, which indicates a preference for flexible funding rather than restricted project grants.
College access and higher education appear most often. Recent gifts include multiple years of support for Evanston Scholars, Eths Foundation, and Indiana State University Foundation, alongside youth-development grants such as Camp Catanese Fdn and transitional services support for Facing Forward.
Yes. Several grantees appear in multiple years, including Evanston Scholars in 2023, 2024, and 2025; Indiana State University Foundation in 2023, 2024, and 2025; Wine to Water in 2023, 2024, and 2025; and Facing Forward in 2023, 2024, and 2025.
Illinois is the top state by grant count. Recent recipients there include Evanston Scholars and Eths Foundation in Evanston, Facing Forward and Greater Chicago Food Depository in Chicago, and multiple awards across several years.
The grant-size distribution is $5,000 at the 25th percentile, $15,000 at the median, and $45,000 at the 75th percentile. In the recent list, grants range from $5,000 to $83,333, with several repeat awards at the same amount over multiple years.
2025
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2025.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EVANSTON SCHOLARS | EVANSTON, IL | $83,333 | 2025 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | TERRE HAUTE, IN | $55,000 | 2025 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| CAMP CATANESE FDN | PHOENIX, AZ | $50,000 | 2025 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| FACING FORWARD | CHICAGO, IL | $30,000 | 2025 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| WINE TO WATER | BOONE, NC | $25,000 | 2025 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| FOOTHILLS FOOD BANK | CAVE CREEK, AZ | $10,000 | 2025 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| SISTERS OF PROVIDENCE | SAINTMARYOFTHEWOOD, IN | $5,000 | 2025 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | CHICAGO, IL | $5,000 | 2025 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| ETHS FOUNDATION | EVANSTON, IL | $5,000 | 2025 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| HILLSIDE FOOD PANTRY | EVANSTON, IL | $5,000 | 2025 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| EVANSTON SCHOLARS | EVANSTON, IL | $83,333 | 2024 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | TERRE HAUTE, IN | $55,000 | 2024 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| WINE TO WATER | BOONE, NC | $20,000 | 2024 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| FACING FORWARD | CHICAGO, IL | $10,000 | 2024 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| ETHS FOUNDATION | EVANSTON, IL | $5,000 | 2024 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| SISTERS OF PROVIDENCE | SAINTMARYOFTHEWOOD, IN | $5,000 | 2024 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| EVANSTON SCHOLARS | EVANSTON, IL | $83,333 | 2023 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| WINE TO WATER | BOONE, NC | $25,000 | 2023 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| FACING FORWARD | CHICAGO, IL | $20,000 | 2023 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| SISTERS OF PROVIDENCE | SAINTMARYOFTHEWOOD, IN | $5,000 | 2023 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| ETHS FOUNDATION | EVANSTON, IL | $5,000 | 2023 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
| INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | TERRE HAUTE, IN | $5,000 | 2023 | UNRESTRICTED USE |
EVANSTON SCHOLARS
$83,333UNRESTRICTED USE
INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
$55,000UNRESTRICTED USE
CAMP CATANESE FDN
$50,000UNRESTRICTED USE
FACING FORWARD
$30,000UNRESTRICTED USE
WINE TO WATER
$25,000UNRESTRICTED USE
FOOTHILLS FOOD BANK
$10,000UNRESTRICTED USE
SISTERS OF PROVIDENCE
UNRESTRICTED USE
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
$5,000UNRESTRICTED USE
ETHS FOUNDATION
$5,000UNRESTRICTED USE
HILLSIDE FOOD PANTRY
$5,000UNRESTRICTED USE
EVANSTON SCHOLARS
$83,333UNRESTRICTED USE
INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
$55,000UNRESTRICTED USE
WINE TO WATER
$20,000UNRESTRICTED USE
FACING FORWARD
$10,000UNRESTRICTED USE
ETHS FOUNDATION
$5,000UNRESTRICTED USE
SISTERS OF PROVIDENCE
$5,000UNRESTRICTED USE
EVANSTON SCHOLARS
$83,333UNRESTRICTED USE
WINE TO WATER
$25,000UNRESTRICTED USE
FACING FORWARD
$20,000UNRESTRICTED USE
SISTERS OF PROVIDENCE
$5,000UNRESTRICTED USE
ETHS FOUNDATION
$5,000UNRESTRICTED USE
INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
$5,000UNRESTRICTED USE