Illinois · Private foundation
Edward S Sprague Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $99k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $13,042
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Edward S Sprague Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 11 | $99k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $18k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $140k | 37% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $11k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $141k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $137k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $123k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $6k | 0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers | $73,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Association House of Chicago | $67,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Deborah's Place | $65,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Lydia Home Association | $60,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Friends of Burley | $53,621 | 5 | 6% |
| The Lambs Farm Inc | $51,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired | $42,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $41,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Embarc Inc | $40,230 | 5 | 1% |
| St Alphonsus Church | $39,433 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers | $73,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Association House of Chicago | $67,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Deborah's Place | $65,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Lydia Home Association | $60,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Friends of Burley | $53,621 | 5 | 6% |
| The Lambs Farm Inc | $51,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired | $42,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $41,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Embarc Inc | $40,230 | 5 | 1% |
| St Alphonsus Church | $39,433 | 4 | n/a |
| Breakthrough T1d | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Bounce Children's Foundation | $21,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $20,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Bernie's Book Bank | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lincoln Park Zoological Society | $13,569 | 3 | 0% |
| Robert a Reaumond Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Humane World for Animals Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Connections for the Homeless Inc | $1,200 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($229k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Edward S Sprague 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.
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How this is measured
About Edward S Sprague Foundation
- How much does Edward S Sprague Foundation give?
- Edward S Sprague Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $99,242 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Edward S Sprague Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (19%), Education (17%), Youth Development (14%).
- Who are Edward S Sprague Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers ($73k), Association House of Chicago ($68k), Deborah's Place ($65k).
- Does Edward S Sprague Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Edward S Sprague Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Edward S Sprague Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
- Where is Edward S Sprague Foundation based?
- Edward S Sprague Foundation is based in IL.
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