Illinois · Public charity
Ft Cares Foundation
To provide monetary relief and other assistance to individuals and families who have healthcare, shelter, nutrition, education, and other similar needs, and to provide grants to other exempt organizations that provide assistance for such families and individuals.
- $944k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 45
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $709k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,020
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $77,702
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 44
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $126k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Ft Cares Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k 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 | 43 | $704k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $604k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $522k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $515k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $446k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $268k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $181k | 55% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $106k | 64% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casa Kane County | $223,748 | 8 | 1% |
| By The Hand Club For Kids | $179,102 | 9 | 0% |
| Special Spaces Inc | $145,680 | 7 | 2% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Texas Inc | $130,730 | 5 | 1% |
| Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us | $125,817 | 7 | 0% |
| Cal's All-Star Angel Foundation Inc | $123,365 | 6 | 1% |
| People's Resource Center | $122,506 | 3 | 0% |
| Build Inc | $120,055 | 7 | 1% |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $111,342 | 6 | 0% |
| Mobile Loaves & Fishes Inc | $105,386 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 88 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ft Cares 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.
Open a dossier: The Dupage Community Foundation · The Bersted Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Topfer Family Foundation · Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Motorola Solutions Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Rich Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Ft Cares Foundation
- How much does Ft Cares Foundation give?
- Ft Cares Foundation reported 45 itemized grants totaling $708,742, out of $944,258 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ft Cares Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (20%), Health (20%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are Ft Cares Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Casa Kane County ($224k), By The Hand Club For Kids ($179k), Special Spaces Inc ($146k).
- Does Ft Cares Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ft Cares Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Dupage Community Foundation, The Bersted Foundation, Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group.
- Where is Ft Cares Foundation based?
- Ft Cares Foundation is based in IL.
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