Illinois · Private foundation
Honeybee 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.
- $47k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,800
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,716
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 47
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Honeybee Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 26 | $41k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $29k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $47k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $45k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 47 | $28k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $17k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 42 | $16k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 44 | $16k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Constitutional Rights | $17,400 | 8 | 0% |
| Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation | $15,982 | 4 | n/a |
| Williams College | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hesperian Health Guides | $10,800 | 7 | 0% |
| Shalva Inc | $10,470 | 8 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $9,770 | 8 | 0% |
| The President and Trustees of Colby College | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Technoserve Inc | $7,470 | 7 | 0% |
| Inspiration Corporation | $7,171 | 8 | 0% |
| Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights | $7,020 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($50k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Honeybee Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 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: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · AbbVie Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
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How do I get to Honeybee Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Honeybee Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Honeybee Foundation
- How much does Honeybee Foundation give?
- Honeybee Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $46,570 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Honeybee Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (22%), Civil Rights (13%), Education (12%).
- Who are Honeybee Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Center for Constitutional Rights ($17k), Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation ($16k), Williams College ($15k).
- Does Honeybee Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Honeybee 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 Honeybee Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Foundation to Promote Open Society.
- Where is Honeybee Foundation based?
- Honeybee Foundation is based in IL.
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