New Jersey · Private foundation
Civitas 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.
- $170k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 17
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Civitas Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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 | 13 | $150k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $268k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $364k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $246k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $431k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $363k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $225k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Jesuit Academy | $486,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Hal Coker Memorial Buckaroo Benefit Fund Inc | $481,000 | 5 | 85% |
| Chicago Jesuit Academy | $126,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Geanco Foundation Inc | $106,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Loyola University of Chicago | $101,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Club of la Plata County Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | $51,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc | $33,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lafayette College | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($332k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Civitas Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 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: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Verizon Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About Civitas Foundation
- How much does Civitas Foundation give?
- Civitas Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $170,450 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Civitas Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (54%), Human Services (17%), Philanthropy (9%).
- Who are Civitas Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Washington Jesuit Academy ($487k), Hal Coker Memorial Buckaroo Benefit Fund Inc ($481k), Chicago Jesuit Academy ($126k).
- Does Civitas Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Civitas 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 Civitas Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Blackbaud Giving Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, Chubb Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Civitas Foundation based?
- Civitas Foundation is based in NJ.
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