Illinois · Private foundation
Bobolink 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.
- $20M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2024
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $7,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 57
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 15
- Total assets, FY2024
- $263M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Bobolink Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M 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 | 38 | $12M | 11% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $8.3M | 60% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $14M | 9% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $9.0M | 16% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $8.9M | 7% |
| FY2019 | 55 | $13M | 11% |
| FY2018 | 55 | $9.1M | 15% |
| FY2017 | 57 | $13M | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rainforest Trust | $10,000,000 | 2 | 38% |
| Rewild | $7,250,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Rare | $6,125,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Wellesley College | $5,000,000 | 4 | 1% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $3,850,000 | 7 | 1% |
| American Bird Conservancy | $3,748,234 | 8 | 10% |
| Friends of the Forest Preserves | $3,355,000 | 8 | 20% |
| Friends of Birdlife International Inc | $2,962,000 | 8 | 34% |
| Field Museum of Natural History | $2,907,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Openlands | $1,910,000 | 8 | 13% |
Show all 76 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($24M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bobolink Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 73 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: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Nature Conservancy · Walton Family Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation · National Audubon Society Inc · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Vanderpoel Conservation Foundation Xxxxx6009 · The Knobloch Family Foundation · Weeden Foundation
How this is measured
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About Bobolink Foundation
- How much does Bobolink Foundation give?
- Bobolink Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $19,790,736 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 57 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Bobolink Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (75%), Animals (13%), Education (4%).
- Who are Bobolink Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rainforest Trust ($10M), Rewild ($7.3M), Rare ($6.1M).
- Does Bobolink Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bobolink 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 Bobolink Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Patagoniaorg, The Nature Conservancy.
- Where is Bobolink Foundation based?
- Bobolink Foundation is based in IL.
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