Illinois · Private foundation
Ideal Industries 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.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 95
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $343,513
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 37
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 55% of the organizations Ideal Industries Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 66% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $249k 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 | 93 | $1.1M | 87% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $376k | 55% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $250k | 62% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $220k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $288k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $553k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $285k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $245k | 14% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philadelphia Youth Basketball Inc | $250,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Safe Passage Inc | $161,826 | 9 | 1% |
| Hope Haven of Dekalb County Inc | $138,795 | 8 | 1% |
| Kishwaukee Family YMCA | $127,318 | 8 | 1% |
| Adventure Works of Dekalb County Inc | $121,715 | 8 | 4% |
| Junior Achievement of Chicago | $121,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Rebuilding Together Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dekalb County Community Gardens | $90,715 | 8 | 2% |
| Dekalb County Youth Service Bureau Inc | $83,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $77,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 96 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 83 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ideal Industries 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: Dekalb County Community Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Douglas C & Lynn M Roberts Family Foundation · George E& Betty Bdutton Foundation · Sycamore Charities Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Kishwaukee United Way · Nebraska Community Foundation · The Bersted Foundation · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Katz Family Foundation · Horizons Unlimited Foundation · Me Stevens-Acct A-Church Fund Xxx-Xx-Xxxx
How this is measured
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About Ideal Industries Foundation
- How much does Ideal Industries Foundation give?
- Ideal Industries Foundation reported 95 grants totaling $1,090,048 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ideal Industries Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (21%), Youth Development (20%), Human Services (20%).
- Who are Ideal Industries Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Philadelphia Youth Basketball Inc ($250k), Safe Passage Inc ($162k), Hope Haven of Dekalb County Inc ($139k).
- Does Ideal Industries Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ideal Industries 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 Ideal Industries Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dekalb County Community Foundation, Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group, Douglas C & Lynn M Roberts Family Foundation.
- Where is Ideal Industries Foundation based?
- Ideal Industries Foundation is based in IL.
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