Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Ideal Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $196k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $32,930
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Ideal Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 25 | $196k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $227k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $258k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $174k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $101k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $186k | 34% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $160k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $230k | 27% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children First Inc | $217,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Russell Sage College | $173,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc | $97,100 | 8 | 0% |
| Bucks County Playhouse Theater Inc | $92,100 | 4 | 1% |
| Playhouse Artists | $77,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Animal Rescue Coalition Inc | $53,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc | $46,600 | 8 | 0% |
| Invisible Theatre | $37,000 | 5 | 4% |
| New College Foundation Inc | $35,400 | 7 | 0% |
| Ringling College of Art and Design Inc | $32,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($802k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ideal 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: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Norman E Peterson and Diana Lager Peterson Educational Fund Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · The Arthur S Karp Family Foundation Inc · The Pearl Family Foundation Inc · Boscia Family Foundation · The Tillie Jennie & Harold Schwartz Foundation Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
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About Ideal Foundation
- How much does Ideal Foundation give?
- Ideal Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $195,580 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ideal Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (32%), Education (17%), International (12%).
- Who are Ideal Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Children First Inc ($217k), Russell Sage College ($173k), The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ($97k).
- Does Ideal Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ideal Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ideal Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc, Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc, Norman E Peterson and Diana Lager Peterson Educational Fund Inc.
- Where is Ideal Foundation based?
- Ideal Foundation is based in PA.
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