Illinois · Private foundation
Gracias Family 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.
- $12M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2024
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $350,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,162,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 17
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $91M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 47% of the organizations Gracias Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 74% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12M 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 | 13 | $10.0M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $16M | 47% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $32M | 88% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $700k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ortus Foundation | $15,000,000 | 1 | 99% |
| Harvard College Trust | $12,325,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Johns Hopkins University | $3,900,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $3,586,687 | 4 | 0% |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | $1,430,908 | 4 | 0% |
| The Film Collaborative Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Invest America Charitable Foundation Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 25% |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $1,000,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Big Green | $850,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Committee for Open Democracy Inc | $750,000 | 1 | 30% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ortus Foundation | $15,000,000 | 1 | 99% |
| Harvard College Trust | $12,325,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Johns Hopkins University | $3,900,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $3,586,687 | 4 | 0% |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | $1,430,908 | 4 | 0% |
| The Film Collaborative Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Invest America Charitable Foundation Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 25% |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $1,000,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Big Green | $850,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Committee for Open Democracy Inc | $750,000 | 1 | 30% |
| Parkinsons Research and Education Foundation Inc | $600,000 | 1 | 43% |
| Chicago Cred Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Nova Ukraine | $500,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Shady Grove Adventist Hospital Foundation Inc | $450,000 | 1 | 12% |
| The Imperial College Foundation Inc | $315,954 | 2 | 19% |
| Sierra Arts Foundation Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $215,826 | 2 | 0% |
| Eagle Hill Foundation of Massachusettsinc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lsu Health Foundation New Orleans | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| First Descents | $45,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Big Shoulders Fund | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($15M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gracias Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 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.
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How this is measured
About Gracias Family Foundation
- How much does Gracias Family Foundation give?
- Gracias Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $12,032,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 17 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Gracias Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (39%), Philanthropy (26%), International (4%).
- Who are Gracias Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Ortus Foundation ($15M), Harvard College Trust ($12M), Johns Hopkins University ($3.9M).
- Does Gracias Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gracias Family 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 Gracias Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, American Endowment Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Gracias Family Foundation based?
- Gracias Family Foundation is based in IL.
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