Illinois · Private foundation
John a Cable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $92k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 28
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $930k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations John a Cable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 28 | $90k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $89k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $89k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $89k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $74k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $73k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $70k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Richmond Ballet | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $29,650 | 7 | 0% |
| Kent State University | $28,000 | 7 | n/a |
| The Richmond Symphony | $26,500 | 7 | 0% |
| The Adler Planetarium | $21,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Gilmour Academy Inc | $19,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Virginia Opera Association Inc | $19,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc | $18,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Equine Rescue League Foundation Inc | $16,750 | 7 | 1% |
| Kenyon College | $16,100 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($259k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John a Cable 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: The Community Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About John a Cable Foundation
- How much does John a Cable Foundation give?
- John a Cable Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $92,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 28 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does John a Cable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (54%), Education (14%), Science & Tech (9%).
- Who are John a Cable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Richmond Ballet ($30k), Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($30k), Kent State University ($28k).
- Does John a Cable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John a Cable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John a Cable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is John a Cable Foundation based?
- John a Cable Foundation is based in IL.
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