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Amsted Industries Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$208k
Granted FY2021
128
Itemized grants FY2021
112
Organizations funded FY2021
45%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$183k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$7,500
Organizations funded a year
112 to 235
FY2020 to FY2021
Total assets, FY2021
$-53489
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 45% of the organizations Amsted Industries Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2021112$183k45%
FY2020235$315kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Public Benefit$1.1MEducation$146kPhilanthropy$65kHealth$50kArts & Culture$42kYouth Development$35kHuman Services$23kInternational$21kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2021.

Lyric Opera of Chicago$7,500
Cornerstone Academy$5,000
John Hopkins University$5,000
United Way-Tri Cities Area (Granite City)$5,000
Boys and Girls Clubs$5,000
Boys and Girls Clubs - GA$5,000
Grant Park Orchestral Association$5,000
Grant Park Orchestral Association$5,000
United Way of Metropolitan$5,000
Boy Scouts of America$5,000
Boy Scouts of America$5,000
Charities Aid Foundation$5,000
Lee County 2023 - Forward Together$5,000
Colgate University$5,000
Saginaw Valley State UniversityFoundation$4,125

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About Amsted Industries Foundation

How much does Amsted Industries Foundation give?
Amsted Industries Foundation reported 128 itemized grants totaling $183,340, out of $207,640 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 112 and 235 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does Amsted Industries Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2021, its largest causes are Public Benefit (66%), Education (9%), Philanthropy (4%).
Does Amsted Industries Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Amsted Industries Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Amsted Industries Foundation based?
Amsted Industries Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 285 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $420k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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