Illinois · Private foundation
East 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.
- $39k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $789
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $19,283
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 16
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations East Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 17 | $39k | 35% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $41k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $22k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $16k | 63% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $27k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $16k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| R3 Development Nfp | $19,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Diocese of Owensboro | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hyde Park Refugee Project | $4,715 | 4 | 0% |
| Pregnancy Care Center | $4,300 | 6 | n/a |
| Operation Homefront Inc | $4,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Community Interfaith Food Pantry | $3,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $3,289 | 2 | 0% |
| Lebanon Matthew 25 40 Ministries | $3,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Maui Food Bank Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $1,775 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| R3 Development Nfp | $19,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Diocese of Owensboro | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hyde Park Refugee Project | $4,715 | 4 | 0% |
| Pregnancy Care Center | $4,300 | 6 | n/a |
| Operation Homefront Inc | $4,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Community Interfaith Food Pantry | $3,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $3,289 | 2 | 0% |
| Lebanon Matthew 25 40 Ministries | $3,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Maui Food Bank Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $1,775 | 2 | 0% |
| West End Community Development Corp | $1,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Society of St Vincent de Paul | $1,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Belleville Public School District 118 Educational Foundation Ltd | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ecosystems of Care | $750 | 1 | n/a |
| Hyde Park Youth Symphony Inc | $600 | 1 | 1% |
| Life Network of Southern Illinois | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Donorschooseorg | $446 | 1 | 0% |
| Karla Smith Foundation | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $150 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($104k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget East 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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About East Foundation
- How much does East Foundation give?
- East Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $38,783 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does East Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (50%), Religion (13%), Housing & Shelter (13%).
- Who are East Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: R3 Development Nfp ($19k), Diocese of Owensboro ($5k), Hyde Park Refugee Project ($5k).
- Does East Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does East 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 East Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is East Foundation based?
- East Foundation is based in IL.
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