Illinois · Private foundation
EBR Foundation
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.
- $300k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2024
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 30
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations EBR Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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 | 24 | $300k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $278k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $278k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $288k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $283k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $75k | 5% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $75k | 10% |
| FY2017 | 19 | $74k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago Zoological Society | $235,750 | 8 | 0% |
| Watotoworld Inc | $170,000 | 8 | 29% |
| Lake Forest Open Lands Association | $155,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Great Lakes Disaster Training Foundation | $135,500 | 7 | 74% |
| Woodford Humane Society Inc | $112,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Exceptional Education Outreach Inc | $70,000 | 4 | 7% |
| The Walthour - Moss Foundation | $61,500 | 8 | 2% |
| North Carolina Zoological Society Inc | $60,000 | 8 | 0% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $42,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Kentucky Horse Park Foundation Inc | $39,000 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($238k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
EBR Foundation 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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Lightner Sams Foundation of Wyoming · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to EBR Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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About EBR Foundation
- How much does EBR Foundation give?
- EBR Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $300,031 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does EBR Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (31%), Environment (14%), International (10%).
- Who are EBR Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Chicago Zoological Society ($236k), Watotoworld Inc ($170k), Lake Forest Open Lands Association ($156k).
- Does EBR Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does EBR 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 EBR Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc, Lightner Sams Foundation of Wyoming, The Ayco Charitable Foundation.
- Where is EBR Foundation based?
- EBR Foundation is based in IL.
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