Illinois · Private foundation
Beaverdale 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.
- $365k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 26
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Beaverdale Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 26 | $365k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $325k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $320k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $325k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $285k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $265k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $270k | 26% |
| FY2017 | 22 | $255k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation | $360,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $145,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Capital Area Food Bank Inc | $145,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Heartland | $145,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | $145,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Minnesota Orchestral Association | $95,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Illinois | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $75,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Children's Law Center Inc | $75,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood North Central States | $70,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($595k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Beaverdale Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mithun Family Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Beaverdale Foundation
- How much does Beaverdale Foundation give?
- Beaverdale Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $365,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Beaverdale Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (24%), Arts & Culture (19%), Environment (18%).
- Who are Beaverdale Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation ($360k), Greater Chicago Food Depository ($145k), Capital Area Food Bank Inc ($145k).
- Does Beaverdale Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Beaverdale 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 Beaverdale Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Mithun Family Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation.
- Where is Beaverdale Foundation based?
- Beaverdale Foundation is based in IL.
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