Illinois · Private foundation
James B Tafel Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $230k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $55,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 42
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations James B Tafel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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 | 33 | $230k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $193k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $185k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $249k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $306k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $211k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $256k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 42 | $264k | 26% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bethesda Hospital Foundation Inc | $402,050 | 9 | 1% |
| Curebound | $192,700 | 9 | 2% |
| Spark Ventures | $143,500 | 9 | 3% |
| Amerson Music Ministries | $117,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Project Concern International | $101,200 | 5 | 0% |
| National Tennis Foundation Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Tennessee Golf Foundation | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cmf International | $35,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Global Communities | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Active Outreach Mission Fund Inc | $17,800 | 4 | 23% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($790k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget James B Tafel 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: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
About James B Tafel Foundation
- How much does James B Tafel Foundation give?
- James B Tafel Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $230,475 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does James B Tafel Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (36%), Health (31%), International (17%).
- Who are James B Tafel Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bethesda Hospital Foundation Inc ($402k), Curebound ($193k), Spark Ventures ($144k).
- Does James B Tafel Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does James B Tafel Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as James B Tafel Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc, Rancho Santa Fe Foundation, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund.
- Where is James B Tafel Foundation based?
- James B Tafel Foundation is based in IL.
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