Illinois · Private foundation
Full Circle Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 81
- Grants FY2025
- 64
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $280,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 39 to 65
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Full Circle Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k 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 | 80 | $2.1M | 29% |
| FY2024 | 64 | $787k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 58 | $972k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $670k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 65 | $753k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 56 | $633k | 39% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $432k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $397k | 59% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Openlands | $280,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $175,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Wetlands Initiative | $171,000 | 8 | 1% |
| The Carter Center Inc | $165,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Cooperative Development Services Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 30% |
| Inner-City Computer Stars Foundation | $150,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Tutoring Chicago | $142,500 | 9 | 3% |
| Chicago Lights | $132,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Leadership Greater McHenry County | $110,000 | 6 | 14% |
| Growing Home Inc | $109,500 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 84 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 81 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Full Circle Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 74 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: The Community Foundation for McHenry County · The Chicago Community Trust · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Willow Springs Charitable Trust Jenny B Stoddard Trustee · Foglia Family Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · The Bersted Foundation · Aptargroup Charitable Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc
How this is measured
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About Full Circle Foundation
- How much does Full Circle Foundation give?
- Full Circle Foundation reported 81 grants totaling $2,108,413 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 65 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Full Circle Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (20%), Housing & Shelter (12%), Health (11%).
- Who are Full Circle Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Openlands ($280k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($175k), The Wetlands Initiative ($171k).
- Does Full Circle Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Full Circle Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Full Circle Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for McHenry County, The Chicago Community Trust, George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities.
- Where is Full Circle Foundation based?
- Full Circle Foundation is based in IL.
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