Illinois · Private foundation
Mark Morton Memorial Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $724k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2024
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $73,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $102,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 21
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $13M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 45% of the organizations Mark Morton Memorial Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $263k 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 | 11 | $724k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $551k | 45% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $942k | 61% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $845k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $886k | 71% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $619k | 92% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $638k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $430k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wayside Cross Ministries | $252,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Public Action to Deliver Shelter Inc D/B/A Hesed House | $250,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Chicago Youth Programs Inc | $185,000 | 3 | 5% |
| New Moms Inc | $175,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Onward Neighborhood House | $174,050 | 2 | 2% |
| Housing Forward | $160,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Kids Above All Illinois | $155,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Young Mens Educational Network | $108,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Cradles to Crayons Inc | $90,940 | 2 | 0% |
| Association House of Chicago | $85,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 57 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mark Morton Memorial Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 53 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 · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Dupage Community Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · The Service Club of Chicago · Advocate Health and Hospitals Corp · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Greater Chicago Food Depository · AbbVie Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group
How this is measured
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About Mark Morton Memorial Fund
- How much does Mark Morton Memorial Fund give?
- Mark Morton Memorial Fund reported 12 grants totaling $723,626 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Mark Morton Memorial Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (21%), Human Services (21%), Housing & Shelter (10%).
- Who are Mark Morton Memorial Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wayside Cross Ministries ($253k), Public Action to Deliver Shelter Inc D/B/A Hesed House ($250k), Chicago Youth Programs Inc ($185k).
- Does Mark Morton Memorial Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mark Morton Memorial Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mark Morton Memorial Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities.
- Where is Mark Morton Memorial Fund based?
- Mark Morton Memorial Fund is based in IL.
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