Lydia & Gus Backer Family Foundation
EIN 88-4417929 · files IRS 990-PF
Where it gives
By cause and by place, from its own returns.
By cause
The cause each recipient registered with the IRS
Mostly grants abroad and recipients without a US registration. Shown, never hidden.
By place
Dollars received, by the recipient's state
half the top state or more10–50%2–10%under 2%
Grants abroad and place not on file: 11 grants · $40.7k
Who it funds most
1 of its 4 grantees were funded in more than one year.
Lydia & Gus Backer Family Foundation's own IRS 990-PF returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 4 largest grantees, leaving out fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds, which share an address rather than a cause. A fact, not a partnership.
Its board and officers
From its latest return.
Form 990PF Part VIII, tax year 2024, filing 202503179349100630
Name and title as its own return lists them. No pay, no address. A photograph appears only where the person's own organisation or a free licence publishes one, credited beside it; otherwise none. Anyone can ask to be removed: hello@philanova.ai.
Its money
What it gave, held and paid, by year.
Giving by year
Its returns4 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | IRS 990-PF | 202601919349100005 | IRS batch file |
| 2024 | IRS 990-PF | 202503179349100630 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS 990-PF | 202443209349103699 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS 990-PF | 202341789349100804 | IRS batch file |
An IRS batch file holds many returns; the filing number finds this one inside it.
The record as filedEvery table this page has always shown, in full.open
Lydia & Gus Backer Family Foundation made 16 grants across 2023–2025, totalling $46.7k as filed.
- Grants
- 16
- Total, as filed
- $46.7k
- Years
- 2023–2025
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Gabriels Light | 3 | $20.0k |
| Easterseals DuPage & Fox Valley | 2 | $15.0k |
| Food Bank of New York City | 3 | $3.5k |
| Hawaii Community Foundation | 1 | $2.5k |
| American Red Cross | 2 | $2.0k |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | 2 | $1.5k |
| Chicago Public Library Foundation | 1 | $1.0k |
| Friends of the Chicago River | 1 | $1.0k |
| Chicago Botanic Garden | 1 | $189 |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 8 | $11.7k |
| 2024 | 4 | $17.0k |
| 2025 | 4 | $18.0k |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-884417929. Register: Internal Revenue Service (US). Machine-readable: JSON.
What this page does not know
- Wrong if: a figure recovered from a subtotal is read as the sum of the recovered rows. A subtotal divides onto a whole penny whatever its parts did, so rows the per-row rule refuses are inside these figures.
- What they say they exist to do
- What each grant was for
- What they fund, by theme
- Balance sheet and financials
- Who runs it
- Whether they accept proposals
- Their own record on the register
- No website on file
- Leadership not yet identified