PATRICK & ANNA M. CUDAHY FUND
Updated December 4, 2023
NEWS & UPDATES
New Website Coming Soon
Our new and updated website will be launched soon. The new website will feature the ability to submit LOI Forms, proposals, and reports online. If you are planning on submitting a proposal, you may wish to wait for the new site which should be launching soon, however we will continue to accept LOI's and proposals via e-mail as well.
The Patrick and Anna M. Cudahy Fund has a new home!
Our new address is:
1010 Lake Street, Suite 200
Oak Park, IL. 60301
Spring Meeting of Board of Directors 2024
The spring meeting will be on June 1, 2024. The proposal deadline is April 15, 2024. This website will be updated shortly and you will soon be able to submit proposals and LOI's online. You will still be able to send applications to us via e-mail, if preferred.
All organizations that received grants in the spring of 2023 may reapply for the spring 2024 meeting UNLESS your organization's grant was directed by a specific Cudahy family member and was considered a Discretionary Grant. If you are unsure whether your grant was discretionary, the grant agreement and transmittal letter that was sent with the grant check last fall has that information. If you are still unsure whether your organization's spring 2023 grant was discretionary or have other questions, please e-mail our Executive Director, Lauren Krieg, and she will be able to assist you. All organizations that received discretionary grants need to be invited to reapply. If you received a discretionary grant in 2023 and you apply without being invited, your proposal will not be considered.
This webpage will be updated with any changes.
The Patrick and Anna M. Cudahy Fund is a private family foundation that supports social services, health care and human services, the arts, education and environmental issues. If your organization is interested in being considered for a grant, please read about our application process on the Guidelines and Application page.
The Patrick and Anna M. Cudahy Fund has enjoyed active involvement in local, state, national and global communities, seeking new ways to effectively enhance common welfare. The Fund conducts most of its grantmaking throughout the state of Wisconsin and in the Chicago metropolitan area. However, a portion of the fund's annual grantmaking budget is allocated to discretionary grants in geographic areas across the United States and abroad reflecting the interests of Directors.
Patrick and Anna Cudahy in 1908
HISTORY OF THE FUND
The Fund officially dates back to September 15, 1921, when Articles of Association were originally drawn for the purpose of creating the Alice Dickson Cudahy Clinic in order to provide free education, medical attention, domestic service and child welfare services to all dependent members of any family of an employee of the Cudahy Brothers Company However, Patrick and Anna's philanthropic giving and civic engagement began several several decades earlier after Patrick became a successful business entrepreneur in the meat-packing industry.
ABOUT US
We are proud of the wonderful organizations we support and the work they do to improve the lives of people of all ages, families and entire communities. We believe that everyone should have the resources to lead happy and healthy lives. Although we do not accept unsolicited proposals, we do give all nonprofit organizations within the Chicagoland area and throughout Wisconsin the opportunity to tell us about what they do through our Letter of Inquiry process. Please visit our Guidelines and Application page for more information.
What we Fund
To achieve our goals, the Fund supports organizations and programs in the following categories:
