Illinois · Private foundation
Jocarno Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $178k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 69
- Grants FY2024
- 75
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $24,840
- Organizations funded a year
- 75 to 115
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 15
- Total assets, FY2024
- $564k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Jocarno Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 67 | $150k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 75 | $172k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 89 | $217k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 115 | $265k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
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, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty's Promise | $36,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance | $31,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Field Museum of Natural History | $26,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Camp Manito-Wish YMCA Inc | $21,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Wild Earth Society Incorporated | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $17,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Board of Directors of Wittenberg College | $17,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Promedica Foundation | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Global Witness Foundation | $16,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Ravinia Festival Association | $15,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 94 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($239k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jocarno Fund 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 Chicago Community Trust · Toledo Community Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Mark S Feldstein and Sandra a Feldstein · The O-I Charities Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Hylant Family Foundation Inc · Promedica Health System Inc · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation
How this is measured
About Jocarno Fund
- How much does Jocarno Fund give?
- Jocarno Fund reported 69 grants totaling $177,840 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 75 and 115 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Jocarno Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (22%), Education (13%), Health (12%).
- Who are Jocarno Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Liberty's Promise ($36k), Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance ($31k), Field Museum of Natural History ($26k).
- Does Jocarno Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jocarno Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jocarno Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Toledo Community Foundation Inc, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.
- Where is Jocarno Fund based?
- Jocarno Fund is based in IL.
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