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Community Foundation of Grundy County
Provide a vision for grundy county and the surrounding area in order to preserve and enhance our quality of life. The foundation will do this by:-providing "leadership" to identify imporant needs, concerns, and opportunities;-using our "grantmaking" to respond to those needs and affect change;-"partnering" with local not-for-profit…
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.8M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $641,071
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $23M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Community Foundation of Grundy County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $231k 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 | 34 | $1.8M | 50% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $744k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $754k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $420k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $287k | 71% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $100k | 82% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $71k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $211k | 40% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Men's Christian Association Joliet | $607,175 | 7 | 1% |
| Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute | $449,560 | 3 | 9% |
| Grundy Eunoia Wellness Center Nfp | $277,945 | 2 | n/a |
| St Patricks Catholic Church | $167,033 | 2 | n/a |
| We Care of Grundy County Inc | $115,440 | 7 | 3% |
| City of Morris | $110,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Grundy Area Pads | $89,366 | 4 | 18% |
| Minooka Chsd 111 | $85,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Mental Health Matters Fund Inc | $64,000 | 3 | 41% |
| Guardian Angel Community Services | $60,450 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 56 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Men's Christian Association Joliet | $607,175 | 7 | 1% |
| Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute | $449,560 | 3 | 9% |
| Grundy Eunoia Wellness Center Nfp | $277,945 | 2 | n/a |
| St Patricks Catholic Church | $167,033 | 2 | n/a |
| We Care of Grundy County Inc | $115,440 | 7 | 3% |
| City of Morris | $110,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Grundy Area Pads | $89,366 | 4 | 18% |
| Minooka Chsd 111 | $85,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Mental Health Matters Fund Inc | $64,000 | 3 | 41% |
| Guardian Angel Community Services | $60,450 | 5 | 0% |
| Cup of Cold Water Ministries | $59,600 | 4 | 3% |
| Joliet Catholic Academy | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Illinois Valley Industries | $44,343 | 3 | 2% |
| Our Saviors Lutheran Church | $43,600 | 4 | n/a |
| Immaculate Conception Morris Il | $43,315 | 1 | n/a |
| Village of Minooka | $43,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Minooka Ccsd 201 | $40,411 | 1 | n/a |
| Morris Community High School | $39,311 | 3 | n/a |
| Community Nutrition Network and Senior Services Association | $34,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Village of Seneca | $32,408 | 2 | n/a |
| Beans-And-Bites | $32,166 | 2 | 24% |
| Chestnut Health Systems Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dwight Alliance | $28,463 | 1 | 18% |
| Immaculate Conception School | $25,790 | 2 | n/a |
| Morris Community High School Education Foundation | $21,810 | 2 | n/a |
| Aurora University | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lewis University | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Morris Hospital Foundation | $19,780 | 2 | 3% |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Joliet | $16,100 | 2 | 0% |
| United Way of Grundy County | $15,809 | 1 | 3% |
| Board of Trustees of Illinois State University | $14,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Special Connections of Grundy County | $13,270 | 1 | 15% |
| Casa of River Valley | $12,500 | 2 | 1% |
| K9s for Veterans Nfp | $12,000 | 1 | 2% |
| United Way of Eastern la Salle County Inc | $11,000 | 1 | 5% |
| University of Evansville | $10,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Operation St Nicklaus Inc | $10,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Reclaim3d Inc | $10,200 | 1 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Western Illinois University Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Seneca Community Food Bank | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Olivet Nazarene University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kendal at Hanover I | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Samford University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New Hope Presbyterian Church | $9,948 | 1 | n/a |
| Foundation of the First Presbyterian Church of Morris Il | $8,296 | 1 | n/a |
| Turn the Towns Teal Inc | $6,711 | 1 | 26% |
| Kendall-Grundy Roe-Paasss | $5,719 | 1 | n/a |
| Meals on Wheels Foundation of Northern Illinois | $5,719 | 1 | 0% |
| Bens Way Forward | $5,650 | 1 | n/a |
| Grundy Area Vocational Center (Gavc) | $5,517 | 1 | n/a |
| Jason Clearwater Fund Nfp | $5,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Grundy County Sheriff | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Will Grundy Medical Clinic | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Joliet Area Community Hospice Corp | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Teach Outdoors Inc Nfp | $5,000 | 1 | 8% |
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Community Foundation of Grundy County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 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: United Way of Grundy County · United Way of Will County · Edward Jones Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
How this is measured
Compare Community Foundation of Grundy County with peer funders
About Community Foundation of Grundy County
- How much does Community Foundation of Grundy County give?
- Community Foundation of Grundy County reported 35 itemized grants totaling $1,789,338, out of $2,018,689 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Community Foundation of Grundy County fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Human Services (25%), Education (15%).
- Who are Community Foundation of Grundy County's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Young Men's Christian Association Joliet ($607k), Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute ($450k), Grundy Eunoia Wellness Center Nfp ($278k).
- Does Community Foundation of Grundy County fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation of Grundy County?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Grundy County, United Way of Will County, Edward Jones Foundation.
- Where is Community Foundation of Grundy County based?
- Community Foundation of Grundy County is based in IL.
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