Illinois · Private foundation
Enchanted Backpack
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 157
- Grants FY2024
- 209
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 58%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $4,995
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $41,221
- Organizations funded a year
- 183 to 209
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 58% of the organizations Enchanted Backpack funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $892k 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 | 155 | $1.1M | 39% |
| FY2023 | 209 | $1.5M | 58% |
| FY2022 | 190 | $1.3M | 49% |
| FY2021 | 195 | $1.1M | 66% |
| FY2020 | 183 | $947k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fill a Heart 4 Kids | $92,463 | 5 | 2% |
| The Thresholds | $84,041 | 5 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $63,254 | 5 | 0% |
| Public Action to Deliver Shelter Inc D/B/A Hesed House | $59,596 | 5 | 0% |
| Primo Center for Women & Children | $56,217 | 5 | 0% |
| Chicago Chesed Fund | $54,504 | 1 | 1% |
| Give N Kind | $54,197 | 1 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $39,257 | 4 | n/a |
| St Joseph Services Inc | $38,999 | 5 | 1% |
| Impacting Veterans Lives Inc dba Midwest Veterans Closet | $38,840 | 5 | 3% |
Show all 153 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 432 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Enchanted Backpack supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Lavin Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · WP & HB White Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Helen V Brach Foundation · Greater Chicago Food Depository · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Carol Bernick Family Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · The Community Foundation for Ocala Marion County Inc
How this is measured
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How do I get to Enchanted Backpack?
Find your warmest path to Enchanted Backpack through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Enchanted Backpack
- How much does Enchanted Backpack give?
- Enchanted Backpack reported 157 grants totaling $1,051,426 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 183 and 209 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Enchanted Backpack fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (55%), Human Services (28%), Housing & Shelter (3%).
- Who are Enchanted Backpack's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Fill a Heart 4 Kids ($92k), The Thresholds ($84k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($63k).
- Does Enchanted Backpack fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Enchanted Backpack accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Enchanted Backpack?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, Lavin Family Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Enchanted Backpack based?
- Enchanted Backpack is based in IL.
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