Illinois · Private foundation
Masonic Foundation of Wilmette
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.
- $66k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $49,999
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 17
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Masonic Foundation of Wilmette funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 | 10 | $66k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $66k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $73k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $80k | 94% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $26k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $9k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois Masonic Outreach Services | $12,121 | 2 | 21% |
| Disabled Patriot Fund Inc | $8,340 | 3 | 1% |
| Friendship Assembly | $3,560 | 1 | n/a |
| Licorice Project Nfp | $3,560 | 1 | n/a |
| The Warming House Youth Center | $2,840 | 1 | 3% |
| Hope Chicago Inc | $2,840 | 1 | 0% |
| Razom Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| International Order of the Rainbow | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Fathers Rights Movement | $500 | 1 | 1% |
| Fathering Together | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($282k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Masonic Foundation of Wilmette 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
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About Masonic Foundation of Wilmette
- How much does Masonic Foundation of Wilmette give?
- Masonic Foundation of Wilmette reported 10 grants totaling $66,154 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Masonic Foundation of Wilmette fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (51%), Arts & Culture (20%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Masonic Foundation of Wilmette's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Illinois Masonic Outreach Services ($12k), Disabled Patriot Fund Inc ($8k), Friendship Assembly ($4k).
- Does Masonic Foundation of Wilmette fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Masonic Foundation of Wilmette 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 Masonic Foundation of Wilmette?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Masonic Foundation of Wilmette based?
- Masonic Foundation of Wilmette is based in IL.
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