Illinois · Private foundation
Good Heart Work Smart 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.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 97
- Grants FY2024
- 89
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,002,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 87 to 120
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations Good Heart Work Smart Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $208k 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 | 94 | $1.8M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 89 | $708k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 120 | $2.0M | 28% |
| FY2021 | 115 | $3.1M | 30% |
| FY2020 | 99 | $1.3M | 38% |
| FY2019 | 87 | $3.0M | 44% |
| FY2018 | 106 | $994k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parks Foundation of Oak Park | $3,680,741 | 7 | 96% |
| Begin In Circle Inc | $595,000 | 2 | 100% |
| Dominican University | $385,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Sarah's Inn | $359,580 | 7 | 5% |
| University of Dayton | $356,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Beat the Streets Chicago | $272,500 | 6 | 6% |
| Equity Team Inc | $250,000 | 4 | 60% |
| Rush University Medical Center | $213,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Oak Park Education Foundation | $195,000 | 7 | 14% |
| Opportunity Knocks Incorporated | $192,788 | 7 | 6% |
Show all 143 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 142 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Good Heart Work Smart Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 119 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Helen V Brach Foundation · Joseph R & Helen Shaker Family Foundation · Westlake Health Foundation · The Lumpkin Family Foundation · Carol Bernick Family Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation
How this is measured
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About Good Heart Work Smart Foundation
- How much does Good Heart Work Smart Foundation give?
- Good Heart Work Smart Foundation reported 97 grants totaling $1,763,844 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 87 and 120 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Good Heart Work Smart Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (30%), Education (20%), Youth Development (15%).
- Who are Good Heart Work Smart Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Parks Foundation of Oak Park ($3.7M), Begin In Circle Inc ($595k), Dominican University ($385k).
- Does Good Heart Work Smart Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Good Heart Work Smart 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 Good Heart Work Smart Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.
- Where is Good Heart Work Smart Foundation based?
- Good Heart Work Smart Foundation is based in IL.
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