Illinois · Private foundation
Exelon 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.
- $11M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2024
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 84%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $4,593,815
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 43
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $101M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 84% of the organizations Exelon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $318k 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 | 32 | $11M | 84% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $10M | 84% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $12M | 75% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $9.6M | 79% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $12M | 74% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $9.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Energy Education Development Project Inc | $11,816,693 | 6 | 28% |
| Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry | $7,000,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Building Bridges Across the River Inc | $2,275,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Chicago Community Foundation | $900,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Federal City Council | $500,000 | 4 | 5% |
| US National Committee for Un Women | $486,002 | 1 | 20% |
| Smithsonian Institution | $400,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Perspectives Charter Schools | $330,000 | 2 | 1% |
| US National Committee for Un Women | $300,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 103 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($38M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Exelon Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 86 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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 Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Connelly Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Philadelphia Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The William Penn Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Independence Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · The Wawa Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Exelon Foundation
- How much does Exelon Foundation give?
- Exelon Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $11,473,360 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 43 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Exelon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (52%), Environment (19%), Science & Tech (11%).
- Who are Exelon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: National Energy Education Development Project Inc ($12M), Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ($7.0M), Building Bridges Across the River Inc ($2.3M).
- Does Exelon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 84% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Exelon 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 Exelon Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, Connelly Foundation, Td Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Exelon Foundation based?
- Exelon Foundation is based in IL.
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