Illinois · Private foundation
Alben F & Clara G Bates Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $709k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 156
- Grants FY2025
- 149
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $28,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 132 to 199
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 22
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Alben F & Clara G Bates Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 153 | $696k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 149 | $701k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 158 | $675k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 168 | $680k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 199 | $971k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 186 | $688k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 151 | $471k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 132 | $396k | 55% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elmhurst Heritage Foundation | $185,000 | 9 | 54% |
| Elmhurst University | $185,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Gigis Playhouse Inc | $168,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Ocean Reef Cultural Center Inc | $145,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Geneva Lake Water Safety Committee Inc | $112,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Triangle Land Conservancy Inc | $111,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $107,500 | 8 | n/a |
| National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression | $80,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Keys Children's Foundation Inc | $80,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Lake Geneva Fresh Air Association Inc | $74,000 | 9 | 1% |
Show all 254 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 142 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Alben F & Clara G Bates Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Dupage Community Foundation · Otzen Family Foundation Incorporated · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The Anna Emery Hanson Charitable Foundation 1 · Ec Styberg Foundation Inc · Dean L & Rosemarie Buntrock Foundation · A G Cox Charity Trust Xxxxx9001 · John & Linda Anderson Charitable Foundation · The Allyn Foundation Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Geary Rimmer Vincent Wolf Foundation
How this is measured
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About Alben F & Clara G Bates Foundation
- How much does Alben F & Clara G Bates Foundation give?
- Alben F & Clara G Bates Foundation reported 156 grants totaling $708,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 132 and 199 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Alben F & Clara G Bates Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (22%), Arts & Culture (16%), Education (12%).
- Who are Alben F & Clara G Bates Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Elmhurst Heritage Foundation ($185k), Elmhurst University ($185k), Gigis Playhouse Inc ($169k).
- Does Alben F & Clara G Bates Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Alben F & Clara G Bates Foundation 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 Alben F & Clara G Bates Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Dupage Community Foundation, Otzen Family Foundation Incorporated, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc.
- Where is Alben F & Clara G Bates Foundation based?
- Alben F & Clara G Bates Foundation is based in IL.
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