Illinois · Private foundation
Idex Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2022
- 81
- Grants FY2022
- 80
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2022
Read this first · the figures below need context
92% of Idex Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to American Online Giving Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Idex Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 64 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2022
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $291,075
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 80
- FY2020 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 22
- Total assets, FY2022
- $2.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 50% of the organizations Idex Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $622k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 80 | $1.1M | 50% |
| FY2021 | 74 | $974k | 64% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $486k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mile High United Way Inc | $130,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of America | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kids Above All Illinois | $90,000 | 2 | 0% |
| North End Community Improvement Collaborative Inc | $87,800 | 2 | 2% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Rochester Inc | $87,798 | 4 | 2% |
| Cuidando Los Nios Inc | $85,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Bridge House | $69,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $60,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Feeding Kids Cleveland County Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 41% |
Show all 111 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 58 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Idex Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 103 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: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Esl Charitable Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Rochester Female Charitable Society · Summers Foundation Inc · Waldron Rise Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Idex Foundation
- How much does Idex Foundation give?
- Idex Foundation reported 81 grants totaling $1,383,445 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 80 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
- What does Idex Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (40%), International (19%), Youth Development (12%).
- Who are Idex Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Mile High United Way Inc ($130k), Boys & Girls Clubs of America ($100k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($100k).
- Does Idex Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Idex Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Idex Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rochester Area Community Foundation, Greater Rochester Health Foundation, Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
- Where is Idex Foundation based?
- Idex Foundation is based in IL.
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