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Keystone Charitable 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.

$8k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
26
Organizations funded FY2023
69%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$4,606
Organizations funded a year
1 to 26
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$55k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 69% of the organizations Keystone Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesAnimalsReligionInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$8k50%
FY202326$92k69%
FY20222$3k0%
FY20218$87k50%
FY20204$37k0%
FY201911$24k73%
FY20187$54k86%
FY20171$2kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$165kScience & Tech$100kEnvironment$24kHousing & Shelter$6kAnimals$3kArts & Culture$3kHuman Services$2kReligion$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
WY
IN
TN
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($128k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Keystone Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLake Forest Academy: $143,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSterling College: $12,060 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Roberti Community House: $6,008 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMetrosquash Nfp: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMasters School: $1,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMothers Trust Foundation: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLake Forest Country Day School: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHistory Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Crane Foundation Inc: $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Hood Community Development Corporation: $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiving With Wolves Ltd: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRagdale Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRewild: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMusic Institute of Chicago: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGorton Community Center: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Illinois Food Bank: $412 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFill a Heart 4 Kids: $256 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake Forest Open Lands Association: $208 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSchool Year Abroad Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDaily Audio Bible: $185 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana Historical Society: $129 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake Forest Foundation for Historic Preservation: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL25.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Little Orchard Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Butler Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Hedberg Foundation Inc · Clarks Fork Foundation · The Gorter Family Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · Harold M & Adeline S Morrison Family Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · Hunting Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Keystone Charitable Foundation

How much does Keystone Charitable Foundation give?
Keystone Charitable Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $8,312 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Keystone Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (54%), Science & Tech (33%), Environment (8%).
Who are Keystone Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Lake Forest Academy ($144k), Sterling College ($12k), The Roberti Community House ($6k).
Does Keystone Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Keystone Charitable 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 Keystone Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Little Orchard Foundation, John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy.
Where is Keystone Charitable Foundation based?
Keystone Charitable Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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