Illinois · Private foundation
Castaways Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $180k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 77
- Grants FY2025
- 78
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 78 to 97
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Castaways Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 | 75 | $176k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 78 | $180k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 79 | $184k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 97 | $220k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 84 | $180k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 82 | $160k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 90 | $150k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 90 | $132k | 22% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $112,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Denver Police Brotherhood Youth Boxing | $56,000 | 9 | 42% |
| Colorado State University Foundation | $51,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Denver | $49,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Shedd Aquarium Society | $46,500 | 9 | 0% |
| High Line Canal Conservancy | $46,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago | $43,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Canine Therapy Corps Inc | $40,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Paws Chicago | $30,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Lincoln Park Zoological Society | $28,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 146 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 60 recipients with no EIN on record ($329k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Castaways Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 129 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Aspen Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Western Union Foundation
How this is measured
About Castaways Foundation
- How much does Castaways Foundation give?
- Castaways Foundation reported 77 grants totaling $180,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 78 and 97 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Castaways Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Health (20%), Animals (15%).
- Who are Castaways Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund ($112k), Denver Police Brotherhood Youth Boxing ($56k), Colorado State University Foundation ($51k).
- Does Castaways Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Castaways 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 Castaways Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Aspen Community Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation.
- Where is Castaways Foundation based?
- Castaways Foundation is based in IL.
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