Minnesota · Private foundation
Empty Bowls Cook County
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $84k
- Granted FY2023
- 23
- Grants FY2023
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2023
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $6,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 22
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 1
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Empty Bowls Cook County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 20 | $84k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $59k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $44k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birch Grove Community School | $17,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Great Lunch | $14,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Cook County Council on Aging | $8,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Ruby's Heart | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Zoar Lutheran Church | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| North Point Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Empty Bowls CC-MN | $4,671 | 1 | n/a |
| Violence Prevention Center | $4,250 | 3 | 1% |
| Sawtooth Mountain Clinic Inc | $2,700 | 2 | 0% |
| Care Partners of Cook County | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($119k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Empty Bowls Cook County 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: Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Northland Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Empty Bowls Cook County
- How much does Empty Bowls Cook County give?
- Empty Bowls Cook County reported 23 grants totaling $84,221 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 22 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Empty Bowls Cook County fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (70%), Human Services (13%), Education (10%).
- Who are Empty Bowls Cook County's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2023: Birch Grove Community School ($17k), Great Lunch ($14k), Cook County Council on Aging ($8k).
- Does Empty Bowls Cook County fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Empty Bowls Cook County accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Empty Bowls Cook County?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lloyd K Johnson Foundation, Northland Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust.
- Where is Empty Bowls Cook County based?
- Empty Bowls Cook County is based in MN.
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