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Eleven Eleven 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $283k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+15 grants · $26M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Friends of Royal Foundation | $7,547,796 |
| Northwestern University | $6,600,000 |
| CLIMATE REALITY PROJECT | $5,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $1,150,000 |
| THE OBAMA FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| Clinton Foundation | $1,000,000 |
| Farmlink Project-CA | $1,000,000 |
| CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| Top Box FOODS | $500,000 |
| University of Chicago - Law School | $500,000 |
| Ravinia Festival | $410,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300,000 |
| AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles | $300,000 |
| Jane Goodall for Wildlife Research | $250,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 86% of grant dollars ($77M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 14% that went abroad ($12M) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 14% of all-years giving ($12M)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Eleven Eleven Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
70 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Northwestern University3× · 2022–2024 · $7.0M · revenue +4%- BHBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +13%
RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $875k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- WSWomens Sports Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $350k · revenue +76%
- OFONE FAMILY ILLINOISone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +24%
CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $160k · revenue +40%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
150 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 150 of the 231 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FARMLINK PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds ALTASEA AT THE PORT OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds TOP BOX FOODS ↗
- Who funds Cool Globes Inc ↗
- Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
- Who funds DIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Womens Sports Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMAZON FRONTLINES ↗
- Who funds ONE FAMILY ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds AMY KROUSE ROSENTHAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERS FUND ↗
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 Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Mills Family Charitable Foundation · Arkes Family Foundation · Fulk Family Foundation Inc · Baxter International Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Sacks Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Eleven Eleven Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eleven Eleven Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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