Illinois · Private foundation
Henry Pope Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $91k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,457
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 29
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $573k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Henry Pope Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 30 | $91k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $79k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $71k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $58k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $56k | 4% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $61k | 12% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $68k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago | $43,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Ravinia Festival Association | $31,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Honorhealth Foundation | $24,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation | $21,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Fusion Academy Scholarship Foundation | $18,500 | 6 | 2% |
| The Josselyn Center Nfp | $17,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Lincoln Park Zoological Society | $17,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Shedd Aquarium Society | $17,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Healing Reins Equine Assisted Services Inc | $15,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Womens Western Golf Foundation | $14,000 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($147k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Henry Pope 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: Baird Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Henry Pope Foundation
- How much does Henry Pope Foundation give?
- Henry Pope Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $91,457 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 29 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Henry Pope Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (62%), Education (12%), Arts & Culture (9%).
- Who are Henry Pope Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ($44k), Ravinia Festival Association ($31k), Honorhealth Foundation ($25k).
- Does Henry Pope Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Henry Pope 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 Henry Pope Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baird Foundation Inc, The Chicago Community Trust, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Henry Pope Foundation based?
- Henry Pope Foundation is based in IL.
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