Illinois · Private foundation
John and Mary Raitt Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $555k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 42
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $465k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $870k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 6% of the organizations John and Mary Raitt Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 39 | $445k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $632k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $421k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $1.5M | 51% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $882k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $1.2M | 81% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $572k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $1.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heart and Mind Foundation | $2,212,500 | 3 | 42% |
| Holy Trinity High School | $1,356,514 | 6 | n/a |
| Youth Guidance | $472,400 | 6 | 0% |
| St Olaf College | $375,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Big Shoulders Fund | $323,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Highsight | $194,229 | 4 | 5% |
| The Josselyn Center Nfp | $185,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Our Lady of Tepeyac High School | $149,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Marquette University | $100,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Alpha Phi Foundation Inc | $82,500 | 6 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
John and Mary Raitt Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 · Baird Foundation Inc · WP & HB White Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
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About John and Mary Raitt Family Foundation
- How much does John and Mary Raitt Family Foundation give?
- John and Mary Raitt Family Foundation reported 42 itemized grants totaling $464,929, out of $554,929 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does John and Mary Raitt Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (63%), Youth Development (5%), Philanthropy (3%).
- Who are John and Mary Raitt Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Heart and Mind Foundation ($2.2M), Holy Trinity High School ($1.4M), Youth Guidance ($472k).
- Does John and Mary Raitt Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John and Mary Raitt Family Foundation 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 John and Mary Raitt Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Baird Foundation Inc, WP & HB White Foundation.
- Where is John and Mary Raitt Family Foundation based?
- John and Mary Raitt Family Foundation is based in IL.
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