Illinois · Private foundation
Ea Mellinger Educational Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 582
- Grants FY2025
- 556
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,100
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 528 to 596
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $25M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Ea Mellinger Educational Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $263k 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 | 582 | $1.2M | 35% |
| FY2024 | 556 | $1.1M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 581 | $1.1M | 34% |
| FY2022 | 542 | $1.1M | 34% |
| FY2021 | 535 | $849k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 528 | $738k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 534 | $736k | 57% |
| FY2017 | 596 | $798k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monmouth College | $95,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Carl Sandburg College Foundation | $45,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Carl Sandburg College | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Knox College | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Warren Achievement Center Inc | $10,330 | 3 | 0% |
| Bleeding & Clotting Disorders Institute | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Augustana College | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Buchanan Center for the Arts | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Robert H Fates Family Foundation | $1,700 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 1,952 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.5M), not named here.
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 Ea Mellinger Educational Foundation Inc
- How much does Ea Mellinger Educational Foundation Inc give?
- Ea Mellinger Educational Foundation Inc reported 582 grants totaling $1,188,578 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 528 and 596 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Ea Mellinger Educational Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (99%), Health (1%), Employment (0%).
- Who are Ea Mellinger Educational Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Monmouth College ($95k), Carl Sandburg College Foundation ($45k), Carl Sandburg College ($15k).
- Does Ea Mellinger Educational Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ea Mellinger Educational Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ea Mellinger Educational Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pattee Foundation Inc, Twomey Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Ea Mellinger Educational Foundation Inc based?
- Ea Mellinger Educational Foundation Inc is based in IL.
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