Illinois · Private foundation
Colegato 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.
- $101k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2025
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 54
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 18
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Colegato Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 56% 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 | 54 | $101k | 37% |
| FY2024 | 46 | $83k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $98k | 70% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $108k | 71% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $145k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $76k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 46 | $75k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 44 | $71k | 80% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc | $22,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $21,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Williamson College of the Trades | $17,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Fund | $17,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Friends of Israel Emergency Aid Fund | $14,500 | 4 | 2% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $14,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Friends of Meir Panim | $13,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Friends of Sheba Medical Center Inc | $11,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Middle East Forum | $11,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Khan Academy Inc | $10,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 212 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($126k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Colegato 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: Donors Trust Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Iranian American Jewish Federation of New York Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Adolph Coors Foundation · The Snider Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Seminar Network Inc · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation
How this is measured
About Colegato Foundation
- How much does Colegato Foundation give?
- Colegato Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $100,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 54 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Colegato Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (22%), Education (10%), Health (10%).
- Who are Colegato Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ($22k), Friends of United Hatzalah Inc ($21k), Williamson College of the Trades ($18k).
- Does Colegato Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Colegato 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 Colegato Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated, Bradley Impact Fund Inc.
- Where is Colegato Foundation based?
- Colegato Foundation is based in IL.
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