Illinois · Private foundation
Mansueto 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.
- $9.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2024
- 53
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 58
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $49M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 34% of the organizations Mansueto Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M 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 | 48 | $9.6M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 53 | $11M | 34% |
| FY2022 | 58 | $10M | 36% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $10M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $5.5M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shedd Aquarium Society | $7,984,106 | 4 | 2% |
| The Barack Obama Foundation | $5,888,309 | 3 | 1% |
| Teach for America Inc | $3,050,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Chicago Public Media Inc | $3,025,000 | 4 | 3% |
| North Austin Community Center | $2,000,000 | 4 | 15% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $1,103,483 | 4 | 0% |
| Better Government Association Inc | $1,000,000 | 5 | 7% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $780,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Illinois Policy Institute | $600,000 | 1 | 7% |
| College Possible Inc | $550,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 90 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($12M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mansueto Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 83 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Canning Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation
How this is measured
About Mansueto Foundation
- How much does Mansueto Foundation give?
- Mansueto Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $9,804,330 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 58 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Mansueto Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (17%), Public Benefit (17%), Philanthropy (14%).
- Who are Mansueto Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Shedd Aquarium Society ($8.0M), The Barack Obama Foundation ($5.9M), Teach for America Inc ($3.0M).
- Does Mansueto Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mansueto 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 Mansueto Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Robert R McCormick Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Lloyd a Fry Foundation.
- Where is Mansueto Foundation based?
- Mansueto Foundation is based in IL.
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