Illinois · Private foundation
Bertrand Hopper Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $305k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $48,923
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 22
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Bertrand Hopper Memorial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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 | 22 | $295k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $321k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $230k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $253k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $251k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $203k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Mens Christian Association | $230,850 | 6 | 5% |
| Howard Young Foundation Inc | $155,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Defending Education | $110,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Turning Point USA Inc | $80,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lincoln Land Community College Foundation | $64,600 | 2 | 2% |
| Sharp Literacy Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Christian County Economic Development Corporation | $40,000 | 4 | 21% |
| Do No Harm | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Taylorville Public Schools Foundation | $30,000 | 4 | 30% |
| Scholl Community Impact Group Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 6% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($538k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bertrand Hopper Memorial Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 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: American Endowment Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Bertrand Hopper Memorial Foundation
- How much does Bertrand Hopper Memorial Foundation give?
- Bertrand Hopper Memorial Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $305,465 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Bertrand Hopper Memorial Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Health (24%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Bertrand Hopper Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Young Mens Christian Association ($231k), Howard Young Foundation Inc ($155k), Defending Education ($110k).
- Does Bertrand Hopper Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bertrand Hopper Memorial Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bertrand Hopper Memorial Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Baird Foundation Inc.
- Where is Bertrand Hopper Memorial Foundation based?
- Bertrand Hopper Memorial Foundation is based in IL.
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