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Idp Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
20%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$740,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 12
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$53M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Idp Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23
AnimalsRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving10$1.4M30%
FY202310$845k20%
FY202212$649k58%
FY20216$4.0M17%
FY202010$2.2M20%
FY201912$1.0Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$6.6MEducation$1.8MInternational$1.2MCommunity Improvement$200kArts & Culture$116kScience & Tech$80kAnimals$75kPublic Benefit$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Northwestern University$6,633,00060%
Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance$200,000265%
Sesame Workshop$85,80820%
Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry$80,00060%
Shedd Aquarium Society$75,00050%
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois$46,0001n/a
The Adler Planetarium$30,00030%
Lincoln Park Conservancy$15,00011%
Ashesi University Foundation$10,00010%
Forefront$3,49510%

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Idp Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthwestern University: $6,633,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHarambe Entrepreneur Alliance: $200,000 over 2y, 65% of budgetSesame Workshop: $85,808 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $80,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetShedd Aquarium Society: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Adler Planetarium: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLincoln Park Conservancy: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAshesi University Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetForefront: $3,495 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCA7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Idp Foundation Inc

How much does Idp Foundation Inc give?
Idp Foundation Inc reported 10 grants totaling $1,408,104 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Idp Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (66%), Education (18%), International (12%).
Who are Idp Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Northwestern University ($6.6M), Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance ($200k), Sesame Workshop ($86k).
Does Idp Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Idp Foundation Inc 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 Idp Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Idp Foundation Inc based?
Idp Foundation Inc is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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