Illinois · Private foundation
Julian Grace Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $8.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 105
- Grants FY2024
- 101
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $60,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $310,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 101 to 115
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $87M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 12% of the organizations Julian Grace Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $206k 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 | 105 | $8.1M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 101 | $7.4M | 12% |
| FY2022 | 115 | $8.5M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 114 | $10M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 101 | $8.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mano a Mano Family Resource Center | $2,083,700 | 5 | 28% |
| Depaul University | $1,705,265 | 5 | 0% |
| The Tahirih Justice Center | $1,489,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Beyond Legal Aid | $1,204,700 | 5 | 17% |
| Vietnamese Association of Illinois | $845,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Chinese American Service League Inc | $758,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Fenix Family Health Center | $705,000 | 5 | 23% |
| YWCA Metropolitan Chicago | $692,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Crossroads Fund Inc | $603,750 | 5 | 2% |
| First Star Inc | $590,195 | 5 | 9% |
Show all 157 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Julian Grace Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 146 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: Field Foundation of Illinois · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Woods Fund of Chicago · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women · Circle of Service Foundation · Forefront · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Crossroads Fund Inc · Conant Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Julian Grace Foundation
- How much does Julian Grace Foundation give?
- Julian Grace Foundation reported 105 grants totaling $8,061,293 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 101 and 115 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Julian Grace Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (18%), Education (10%), Crime & Legal (9%).
- Who are Julian Grace Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Mano a Mano Family Resource Center ($2.1M), Depaul University ($1.7M), The Tahirih Justice Center ($1.5M).
- Does Julian Grace Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Julian Grace 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 Julian Grace Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Field Foundation of Illinois, Polk Bros Foundation Inc, Woods Fund of Chicago.
- Where is Julian Grace Foundation based?
- Julian Grace Foundation is based in IL.
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