Illinois · Private foundation
Caerus Foundation Inc
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.
- $15M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 134
- Grants FY2024
- 73
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,082
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,205,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 60 to 76
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $252M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations Caerus Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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 | 70 | $15M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 73 | $15M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 62 | $13M | 16% |
| FY2021 | 65 | $16M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 76 | $14M | 32% |
| FY2019 | 60 | $15M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Halo Trust (Usa) Inc | $8,520,876 | 6 | 8% |
| The Resurrection Project | $7,015,000 | 4 | 10% |
| Mag America Inc | $5,085,104 | 6 | 3% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $3,700,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Mission Graduates | $3,696,466 | 6 | 9% |
| Tutoring Chicago | $2,443,802 | 6 | 42% |
| The Chicago Scholars Foundation | $2,433,132 | 6 | 26% |
| Global Strategies | $2,375,000 | 5 | 52% |
| Build Inc | $2,333,709 | 6 | 12% |
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $2,200,629 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 110 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($13M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Caerus Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 109 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: Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Reva and David Logan Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Windward Fund · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc
How this is measured
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About Caerus Foundation Inc
- How much does Caerus Foundation Inc give?
- Caerus Foundation Inc reported 134 grants totaling $15,142,327 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 60 and 76 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Caerus Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (26%), Education (18%), Environment (13%).
- Who are Caerus Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Halo Trust (Usa) Inc ($8.5M), The Resurrection Project ($7.0M), Mag America Inc ($5.1M).
- Does Caerus Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Caerus Foundation Inc 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 Caerus Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arie and Ida Crown Memorial, Polk Bros Foundation Inc, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.
- Where is Caerus Foundation Inc based?
- Caerus Foundation Inc is based in IL.
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