Illinois · Private foundation
Charles M and Joan R Taylor Foundation Inc
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.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2024
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Median grant, FY2024
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 28
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $17M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 32% of the organizations Charles M and Joan R Taylor Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k 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 | 41 | $2.5M | 34% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $2.1M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $1.9M | 46% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $995k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $1.7M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $1.2M | 13% |
| FY2017 | 19 | $887k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wings of Mercy Inc | $1,050,000 | 7 | 38% |
| Canine Companions for Independence Inc | $1,050,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Arkansas Foodbank | $870,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Arkansas Educational Telecommunications Network Foundation | $815,000 | 4 | 16% |
| Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council | $750,000 | 7 | 9% |
| Camp Aldersgate Inc | $720,000 | 5 | 28% |
| Frontier Nursing Service Incorporated | $525,000 | 2 | 17% |
| Care Elementary School Inc | $500,000 | 7 | 10% |
| Little Traverse Conservancy Inc | $400,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Transylvania University | $375,000 | 5 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Charles M and Joan R Taylor Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
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How this is measured
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About Charles M and Joan R Taylor Foundation Inc
- How much does Charles M and Joan R Taylor Foundation Inc give?
- Charles M and Joan R Taylor Foundation Inc reported 43 grants totaling $2,605,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does Charles M and Joan R Taylor Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (13%), Health (12%), Arts & Culture (9%).
- Who are Charles M and Joan R Taylor Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wings of Mercy Inc ($1.1M), Canine Companions for Independence Inc ($1.1M), Arkansas Foodbank ($870k).
- Does Charles M and Joan R Taylor Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Charles M and Joan R Taylor 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 Charles M and Joan R Taylor Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arkansas Community Foundation Inc, Charlevoix County Community Foundation, Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation.
- Where is Charles M and Joan R Taylor Foundation Inc based?
- Charles M and Joan R Taylor Foundation Inc is based in IL.
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