Illinois · Private foundation
Bonnie Lee Bolding Charitable 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.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2024
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $375,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 24
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $37M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Bonnie Lee Bolding Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k 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 | 26 | $1.9M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $1.7M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $1.4M | 28% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $480k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $215k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $185k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $137k | 64% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $117k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Oak Ranch Inc | $780,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Samford University | $645,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Cultivating Hope Foundation Inc | $327,500 | 4 | 96% |
| Southeastern Diabetes Education Services Inc | $240,000 | 3 | 6% |
| American Diabetes Association | $179,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Freedom Mobility Foundation | $170,000 | 2 | 38% |
| Travis Manion Foundation | $142,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $130,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Arts Center | $90,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Feeding Alabama | $75,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Oak Ranch Inc | $780,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Samford University | $645,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Cultivating Hope Foundation Inc | $327,500 | 4 | 96% |
| Southeastern Diabetes Education Services Inc | $240,000 | 3 | 6% |
| American Diabetes Association | $179,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Freedom Mobility Foundation | $170,000 | 2 | 38% |
| Travis Manion Foundation | $142,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $130,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Arts Center | $90,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Feeding Alabama | $75,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Palisades Church of Christ | $50,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Arthritis Foundation Inc | $34,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Tee It Up for the Troops Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Brightfocus Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| John Carroll University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The State of Alabama Ballet Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Curepsp Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bonnie Lee Bolding Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
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About Bonnie Lee Bolding Charitable Foundation
- How much does Bonnie Lee Bolding Charitable Foundation give?
- Bonnie Lee Bolding Charitable Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $1,890,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Bonnie Lee Bolding Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (42%), Human Services (19%), Education (14%).
- Who are Bonnie Lee Bolding Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Big Oak Ranch Inc ($780k), Samford University ($645k), Cultivating Hope Foundation Inc ($328k).
- Does Bonnie Lee Bolding Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bonnie Lee Bolding Charitable 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 Bonnie Lee Bolding Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Bonnie Lee Bolding Charitable Foundation based?
- Bonnie Lee Bolding Charitable Foundation is based in IL.
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