Illinois · Private foundation
Cabrera Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $64k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 55% of the organizations Cabrera Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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 | 7 | $64k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $86k | 55% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $82k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $45k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $11k | 80% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $30k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $16k | 86% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $21k | 100% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Claremont McKenna College | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Dolores C Huerta Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Iskali | $25,000 | 4 | 1% |
| University of Michigan | $20,000 | 2 | 3% |
| St Louis University | $10,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Children First Fund the Chicago Public Schools Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Loyola Marymount University | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Catholic Bishop of Chicago | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chicago Dia de Los Ninos | $8,100 | 5 | n/a |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Claremont McKenna College | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Dolores C Huerta Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Iskali | $25,000 | 4 | 1% |
| University of Michigan | $20,000 | 2 | 3% |
| St Louis University | $10,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Children First Fund the Chicago Public Schools Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Loyola Marymount University | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Catholic Bishop of Chicago | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chicago Dia de Los Ninos | $8,100 | 5 | n/a |
| Depaul University | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Miami | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pepperdine University | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New York University | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Resurrection Project | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Orange Crush S a C | $4,700 | 1 | 8% |
| Enlace Chicago | $3,750 | 1 | 0% |
| St Mary School | $3,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Northern Illinois Area Ltd | $2,500 | 1 | 3% |
| University of California Santa Barbara | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Northern Illinois University Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northeastern Illinois University Foundation | $1,205 | 1 | n/a |
| Puerto Rican Arts Alliance | $400 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($82k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cabrera 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: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Cabrera Foundation
- How much does Cabrera Foundation give?
- Cabrera Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $63,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cabrera Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (68%), Community Improvement (8%), Youth Development (7%).
- Who are Cabrera Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross ($80k), Claremont McKenna College ($50k), Dolores C Huerta Foundation ($25k).
- Does Cabrera Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cabrera Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cabrera Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
- Where is Cabrera Foundation based?
- Cabrera Foundation is based in IL.
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