How much does Abbott Fund give?

Abbott Fund reported 62 grants totaling $17,424,431 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 106 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Abbott Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (41%), International (16%), Education (13%).

Who are Abbott Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: University of the Pacific ($7.4M), Direct Relief ($6.7M), The Joffrey Ballet ($4.5M).

Does Abbott Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Abbott Fund accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Abbott Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baxter International Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Trustmark Foundation.

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Illinois · Private foundation

Abbott Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$17M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 62
Grants FY2024: 52
Organizations funded FY2023: 27%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $7,965,870
Organizations funded a year: 45 to 106; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 12
Total assets, FY2024: $49M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations Abbott Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	50	$9.4M	12%
FY2023	52	$10M	27%
FY2022	45	$12M	11%
FY2021	52	$9.2M	19%
FY2020	106	$13M	36%
FY2019	85	$6.4M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$43MInternational$17MEducation$13MArts & Culture$7.7MHealth$5.9MFood & Nutrition$5.5MScience & Tech$4.0MHuman Services$2.8MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of the Pacific	$7,432,400	6	0%
Direct Relief	$6,685,000	6	0%
The Joffrey Ballet	$4,500,000	6	7%
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc	$3,275,000	5	0%
International Medical Corps	$3,150,000	2	1%
Feeding America	$2,465,000	6	0%
El Concilio California	$2,436,274	6	3%
University of Minnesota Foundation	$2,135,000	6	0%
Americares Foundation Inc	$1,800,000	5	0%
Emergency Food Bank	$1,689,400	5	4%

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All grantees of Abbott Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of the Pacific	$7,432,400	6	0%
Direct Relief	$6,685,000	6	0%
The Joffrey Ballet	$4,500,000	6	7%
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc	$3,275,000	5	0%
International Medical Corps	$3,150,000	2	1%
Feeding America	$2,465,000	6	0%
El Concilio California	$2,436,274	6	3%
University of Minnesota Foundation	$2,135,000	6	0%
Americares Foundation Inc	$1,800,000	5	0%
Emergency Food Bank	$1,689,400	5	4%
Erie Family Health Center Inc	$1,390,000	6	0%
Asian Pacific Self-Development	$1,145,000	5	27%
Rush University Medical Center	$1,100,000	4	0%
Emory University	$1,040,000	4	0%
Sesame Workshop	$1,025,000	2	0%
Project Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc	$850,000	2	0%
The Global FoodBanking Network	$805,000	6	2%
Lyric Opera of Chicago	$782,140	3	1%
Community Medical Centers Inc	$712,797	6	0%
For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)	$700,000	4	0%
Illinois Executive Mansion Association	$600,000	3	32%
Indiana University School of Medicine	$525,000	4	n/a
American Heart Association Inc	$500,000	2	0%
Boys & Girls Club of Lake County	$410,000	6	10%
Northern Illinois Food Bank	$360,000	6	0%
The Women's Bakery Inc	$354,000	4	10%
Franklin County Historical Society Dba Cosi Columbus	$300,000	6	0%
Easter Seals Inc	$250,000	1	0%
Chicago Theatre Group Inc	$240,000	6	0%
Chicago Symphony Orchestra	$225,000	6	0%
The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc	$200,000	4	1%
Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship	$176,000	3	30%
Junior Achievement of Chicago	$175,000	4	1%
Culver Educational Foundation	$175,000	6	0%
Summit Academy Oic	$160,000	2	1%
Promotors Unidas Para la Educacion Nacional Tecnologieas Sostenibles	$157,875	1	38%
University of Arizona	$150,000	2	n/a
Chicago Horticultural Society	$150,000	6	0%
Children's Heartlink	$150,000	2	4%
Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media	$137,160	2	0%
Northwestern University	$108,332	6	0%
University of Arizona Foundation	$100,000	2	0%
Heart to Heart International Inc	$100,000	2	0%
Wings Program Inc	$100,000	4	0%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation	$100,000	1	0%
Mountain Trails Foundation	$80,000	4	2%
Growing Healthy People	$80,000	3	20%
National Jewish Health	$76,000	1	0%
Camp Odayin	$65,000	2	6%
Second Harvest Heartland	$60,000	1	0%
Bernie's Book Bank	$50,000	2	1%
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs	$50,000	1	0%
Norfork Area Youth Center Inc	$50,000	2	n/a
Chicago Youth Centers	$50,000	2	0%
Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe of Florida Inc	$50,000	2	1%
Nch Healthcare System Inc	$45,000	3	2%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago	$43,000	2	0%
University of Chicago	$37,098	3	0%
New Hytes Inc	$33,334	1	5%
Lsu Foundation	$33,000	2	0%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$30,000	1	n/a
United Way of San Joaquin County	$30,000	1	1%
Millennium Park Foundation	$30,000	3	1%
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc	$30,000	6	0%
GoodCity NFP	$30,000	1	n/a
Prairie State Legal Services Inc	$30,000	2	0%
The Historymakers	$25,000	1	0%
Detroit Public Schools Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
Westie Foundation of America Inc	$25,000	1	6%
High Tech Kids	$25,000	2	3%
Summit Ministries Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Roseville Area School District 623 Foundation	$24,000	2	12%
Waukegan Public Library Foundation	$23,000	1	37%
Trustees of Tufts College	$22,772	2	0%
Amherst College Trustees	$20,000	1	0%
The Aspen Institute Inc	$20,000	4	0%
University of Miami	$20,000	2	0%
Lake Forest Open Lands Association	$20,000	2	0%
Africa Bridge	$20,000	2	4%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc	$20,000	1	0%
PADS Lake County Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Greater Chicago Food Depository	$17,500	3	0%
Career Resource Center Inc	$16,000	2	4%
Museum of African American History	$15,000	1	0%
The Lake County Haven	$15,000	2	1%
Evanston Art Center	$15,000	3	1%
The Catholic University of America	$14,000	2	0%
Clearwater Central Catholic High School Inc	$14,000	2	n/a
ASN Foundation for Kidney Research	$13,334	2	0%
Young Life	$12,500	1	0%
Medical Institute for Sexual Health	$12,500	1	1%
Youth and Family Counseling	$10,000	2	0%
Starbase Minnesota Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center	$10,000	2	n/a
Detroit Opera	$10,000	1	0%
Cool Ministries	$10,000	2	1%
Lake County Crisis Center	$10,000	2	0%
New York University	$7,000	2	0%
Boys and Girls Club of America	$5,227	1	n/a
Depaul University	$5,000	1	0%
Linking Efforts Against Drugs	$5,000	1	1%
University of California San Francisco Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
Operation Homefront Inc	$5,000	1	0%
All Faiths Food Bank Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Jersey Battered Women's Service Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of New Jersey Inc	$5,000	1	0%
American Corporate Partners	$5,000	1	0%
National Academy of Sciences	$4,000	1	0%
Prostate Cancer Foundation	$2,500	1	0%
Center on Halsted	$2,500	1	0%
One Acre Fund	$2,500	1	0%
Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation	$2,500	1	0%
Regents of the University of Michigan	$2,000	1	n/a
Worcester Polytechnic Institute	$2,000	1	0%
University of Wisconsin Foundation	$2,000	1	0%
Urological Research Foundation	$2,000	1	1%
Illinois Institute of Technology	$2,000	1	0%
University of Wisconsin Parkside Foundation Inc	$2,000	1	0%
Simmons University	$2,000	1	0%
Bowling Green State University Foundation Inc	$2,000	1	0%
Civic Consulting Alliance	$1,500	1	0%
Heartland Animal Shelter Nfp	$1,000	1	0%
Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.0M), not named here.

Abbott Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 114 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 114.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

Baxter International FoundationIL26.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baxter International Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Trustmark Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · United Way of Lake County Inc · The Lake County Community Foundation · The Grainger Foundation Inc · Harold M & Adeline S Morrison Family Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · United Way Worldwide

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Compare Abbott Fund with peer funders

About Abbott Fund

How much does Abbott Fund give?: Abbott Fund reported 62 grants totaling $17,424,431 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 106 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Abbott Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (41%), International (16%), Education (13%).
Who are Abbott Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: University of the Pacific ($7.4M), Direct Relief ($6.7M), The Joffrey Ballet ($4.5M).
Does Abbott Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Abbott Fund accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Abbott Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baxter International Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Trustmark Foundation.
Where is Abbott Fund based?: Abbott Fund is based in IL.