Illinois · Private foundation
Covington Charitable Tr
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $59k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2024
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 38
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $949k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Covington Charitable Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 25 | $59k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $58k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $52k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $168k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $91k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Traverse Conservancy Inc | $115,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Lake Forest Open Lands Association | $60,250 | 5 | 1% |
| The Wetlands Initiative | $26,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Field Museum of Natural History | $22,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Center for Biological Diversity Inc | $15,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Land Trust Alliance Inc | $12,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Earthjustice | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Openlands | $9,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Chicago Zoological Society | $9,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation | $8,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($81k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Covington Charitable Tr supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 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.
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How this is measured
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About Covington Charitable Tr
- How much does Covington Charitable Tr give?
- Covington Charitable Tr reported 25 grants totaling $59,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 38 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Covington Charitable Tr fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (76%), Arts & Culture (14%), Animals (5%).
- Who are Covington Charitable Tr's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ($115k), Lake Forest Open Lands Association ($60k), The Wetlands Initiative ($26k).
- Does Covington Charitable Tr fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Covington Charitable Tr 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 Covington Charitable Tr?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Covington Charitable Tr based?
- Covington Charitable Tr is based in IL.
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