Illinois · Private foundation
John & Weezie Gates Charitable Trust
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.
- $682k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $350,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 37
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations John & Weezie Gates Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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 | $682k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $697k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $592k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $636k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $586k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $474k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $730k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $717k | 28% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eagle Hill Foundation of Massachusettsinc | $1,055,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Trinity | $866,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Everglades Foundation Inc | $197,150 | 8 | 0% |
| Hobe Sound Community Chest Inc | $155,000 | 6 | 2% |
| American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research | $126,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Martin County | $95,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago | $86,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Rehabilitation Institute Inc | $57,040 | 3 | n/a |
| Metropolitan Planning Council | $45,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John & Weezie Gates Charitable Trust 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 David and Elizabeth Long Foundation · St Clair Charitable Trust · Legatus Foundation · CMB Foundation · Madigan Family Foundation · Ethel D Colket Foundation · Colket Family Foundation · The Zeckhauser Foundation · The James E & Constance L Bell Foundation · Cox Foundation Inc · Nivin and Duncan Macmillan Foundation · Donald Grant & Ann Martin Calder Foundat
How this is measured
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About John & Weezie Gates Charitable Trust
- How much does John & Weezie Gates Charitable Trust give?
- John & Weezie Gates Charitable Trust reported 33 grants totaling $682,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does John & Weezie Gates Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Human Services (23%), Religion (20%).
- Who are John & Weezie Gates Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Eagle Hill Foundation of Massachusettsinc ($1.1M), Trinity ($866k), The Everglades Foundation Inc ($197k).
- Does John & Weezie Gates Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John & Weezie Gates Charitable Trust 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 & Weezie Gates Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The David and Elizabeth Long Foundation, St Clair Charitable Trust, Legatus Foundation.
- Where is John & Weezie Gates Charitable Trust based?
- John & Weezie Gates Charitable Trust is based in IL.
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