Illinois · Private foundation
Grand Victoria Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $6.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 114
- Grants FY2024
- 109
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $555,150
- Organizations funded a year
- 76 to 122
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $181M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Grand Victoria Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M 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 | 112 | $6.5M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 109 | $6.9M | 22% |
| FY2022 | 113 | $5.9M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 122 | $6.5M | 28% |
| FY2020 | 118 | $7.3M | 38% |
| FY2019 | 99 | $5.5M | 39% |
| FY2018 | 76 | $5.2M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation Inc | $1,775,920 | 7 | 25% |
| Metropolitan Planning Council | $1,700,000 | 7 | 7% |
| Forefront | $1,252,284 | 7 | 3% |
| Shriver Center on Poverty Law | $1,085,000 | 7 | 3% |
| The Conservation Foundation | $1,055,323 | 5 | 20% |
| Openlands | $985,805 | 5 | 3% |
| Chicago Jobs Council | $905,000 | 7 | 13% |
| Hamilton Wings | $889,280 | 6 | 69% |
| National Forest Foundation | $853,170 | 4 | 2% |
| Natural Land Institute | $836,401 | 5 | 23% |
Show all 208 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Grand Victoria Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 192 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: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Field Foundation of Illinois · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Woods Fund of Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · Chicago Foundation for Women · Forefront · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · Efs Foundation
How this is measured
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About Grand Victoria Foundation
- How much does Grand Victoria Foundation give?
- Grand Victoria Foundation reported 114 grants totaling $6,485,223 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 76 and 122 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Grand Victoria Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (24%), Community Improvement (15%), Civil Rights (12%).
- Who are Grand Victoria Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation Inc ($1.8M), Metropolitan Planning Council ($1.7M), Forefront ($1.3M).
- Does Grand Victoria Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Grand Victoria Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Grand Victoria Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Polk Bros Foundation Inc, Field Foundation of Illinois, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc.
- Where is Grand Victoria Foundation based?
- Grand Victoria Foundation is based in IL.
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