Illinois · Private foundation
Ancona Family Foundation
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.
- $52k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2024
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $750
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 20
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $696k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Ancona Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 29 | $52k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $39k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $38k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $48k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $41k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $45k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $547k | 13% |
| FY2017 | 20 | $47k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | $80,000 | 8 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| York College Foundation | $14,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Nantucket Preservation Trust Inc | $9,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Nantucket Atheneum Inc | $8,700 | 8 | 0% |
| Greenwich Academy Inc | $7,400 | 5 | 0% |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $5,750 | 7 | 0% |
| The Junior League of Chicago Inc | $5,390 | 8 | 0% |
| Nantucket Historical Association | $4,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Nmdp Foundation | $1,700 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($670k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ancona Family 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: Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Ancona Family Foundation
- How much does Ancona Family Foundation give?
- Ancona Family Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $52,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Ancona Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (72%), Education (17%), Social Science (3%).
- Who are Ancona Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ($80k), University of Chicago ($40k), York College Foundation ($14k).
- Does Ancona Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ancona Family 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 Ancona Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Ancona Family Foundation based?
- Ancona Family Foundation is based in IL.
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