How much does Abra Prentice Foundation Inc give?

Abra Prentice Foundation Inc reported 40 grants totaling $3,059,416 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 41 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Abra Prentice Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (17%), Food & Nutrition (16%), Environment (14%).

Who are Abra Prentice Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Shelburne Farms ($1.6M), Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund ($825k), Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest ($700k).

Does Abra Prentice Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Abra Prentice Foundation Inc 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 Abra Prentice Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Dr Scholl Foundation.

Where is Abra Prentice Foundation Inc based?

Abra Prentice Foundation Inc is based in IL.

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Illinois · Private foundation

Abra Prentice Foundation Inc

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.

$3.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 40
Grants FY2024: 41
Organizations funded FY2023: 5%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $55,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $250,000
Organizations funded a year: 39 to 41; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 6
Total assets, FY2024: $55M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 5% of the organizations Abra Prentice Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesFood & NutritionEnvironmentHealthArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterOther

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	40	$3.1M	10%
FY2023	41	$2.8M	5%
FY2022	41	$2.8M	12%
FY2021	39	$2.5M	8%
FY2020	40	$2.4M	10%
FY2019	40	$1.8M	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.

Education$2.6MFood & Nutrition$2.6MEnvironment$2.2MArts & Culture$1.7MHousing & Shelter$1.7MHealth$1.7MPhilanthropy$942kHuman Services$935kOther$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
Shelburne Farms	$1,575,000	6	5%
Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund	$825,000	6	4%
Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest	$700,000	6	2%
The Salvation Army	$570,000	2	n/a
Compass to Care	$540,000	6	22%
Franciscan Outreach	$430,000	6	2%
Chicago Jesuit Academy	$396,750	6	n/a
Sarah's Circle	$395,000	6	1%
Chicago Horticultural Society	$360,000	6	0%
Greater Chicago Food Depository	$350,000	2	0%

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All grantees of Abra Prentice Foundation Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Shelburne Farms	$1,575,000	6	5%
Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund	$825,000	6	4%
Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest	$700,000	6	2%
The Salvation Army	$570,000	2	n/a
Compass to Care	$540,000	6	22%
Franciscan Outreach	$430,000	6	2%
Chicago Jesuit Academy	$396,750	6	n/a
Sarah's Circle	$395,000	6	1%
Chicago Horticultural Society	$360,000	6	0%
Greater Chicago Food Depository	$350,000	2	0%
The Center of Concern	$325,000	6	4%
New Moms Inc	$305,000	6	1%
National Parks Conservation Association	$300,000	6	0%
Recipe for Change	$300,000	6	17%
The Wetlands Initiative	$300,000	6	4%
The American Writers Museum	$300,000	6	2%
Food Runners	$295,000	5	7%
Meals on Wheels	$275,000	5	70%
Friends of the Chicago River	$250,000	6	3%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$250,000	1	0%
Tutoring Chicago	$245,000	6	4%
Merit School of Music	$235,000	6	3%
Glenwood Academy	$227,500	6	1%
Lava Mae	$210,000	4	5%
The Josselyn Center Nfp	$195,000	6	0%
Special Olympics Illinois	$170,000	6	0%
Free Wheelchair Mission	$170,000	6	0%
Connections for the Homeless Inc	$170,000	6	1%
The Kids Equipment Network Nfp	$157,950	6	27%
World Wildlife Fund Inc	$150,000	3	0%
Old Irving Park Community Clinic	$125,000	5	4%
Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center	$125,000	6	1%
The Center for Enriched Living Inc	$110,000	6	1%
Window to the World Communications Inc	$100,000	1	0%
The National World War II Museum Inc	$100,000	1	0%
Hope for the Day	$95,000	6	3%
Zoological Society of Pittsburgh	$80,000	3	0%
Covenant House	$75,000	2	0%
Pacific Garden Mission	$75,000	2	n/a
Team Rubicon Inc	$75,000	2	0%
Lydia Home Association	$50,000	2	0%
Homeboy Industries	$50,000	2	0%
The Humanitarian Service Project	$30,000	3	n/a
Dreams Are Possible	$25,000	1	17%
St Joseph Services Inc	$10,000	1	1%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.

Abra Prentice Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 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 41.

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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.

AbbVie FoundationIL22× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Dr Scholl Foundation · The a Montgomery Ward Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Pelino Charitable Foundation · Rice Foundation · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · WP & HB White Foundation · Enchanted Backpack · Lavin Family Foundation

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.

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About Abra Prentice Foundation Inc

How much does Abra Prentice Foundation Inc give?: Abra Prentice Foundation Inc reported 40 grants totaling $3,059,416 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 41 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Abra Prentice Foundation Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (17%), Food & Nutrition (16%), Environment (14%).
Who are Abra Prentice Foundation Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Shelburne Farms ($1.6M), Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund ($825k), Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest ($700k).
Does Abra Prentice Foundation Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Abra Prentice Foundation Inc 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 Abra Prentice Foundation Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Dr Scholl Foundation.
Where is Abra Prentice Foundation Inc based?: Abra Prentice Foundation Inc is based in IL.