Illinois · Private foundation
A Just Better Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $112k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois Fire Safety Alliance | $40,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Champaign-Urbana Kiwanis Club Welfare Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Phoenix Society Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| United Way of Champaign County | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Barack Obama Foundation | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Don Moyer Boys & Girls Club | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Brain Tumor Association | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Carter Center Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois Fire Safety Alliance | $40,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Champaign-Urbana Kiwanis Club Welfare Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Phoenix Society Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| United Way of Champaign County | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Barack Obama Foundation | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Don Moyer Boys & Girls Club | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Brain Tumor Association | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Carter Center Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Global Sojourns Giving Circle | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| WGBH Educational Foundation | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chicago Community Foundation | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| 4222 Humanity Through Baseball Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($102k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget A Just Better Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About A Just Better Foundation
- How much does A Just Better Foundation give?
- A Just Better Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $112,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
- What does A Just Better Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (22%), Human Services (9%), Youth Development (8%).
- Who are A Just Better Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: Illinois Fire Safety Alliance ($40k), Champaign-Urbana Kiwanis Club Welfare Foundation ($10k), Phoenix Society Inc ($6k).
- Does A Just Better Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as A Just Better Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is A Just Better Foundation based?
- A Just Better Foundation is based in IL.
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