Illinois · Private foundation
Master Educational Assistance Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $384k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2025
- 53
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $48,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 59
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Master Educational Assistance Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k 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 | 53 | $384k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 53 | $329k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 59 | $321k | 49% |
| FY2022 | 57 | $250k | 68% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $272k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $324k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty Forever Foundation Inc | $136,490 | 5 | n/a |
| Resilience Partners NFP | $90,000 | 5 | 2% |
| St Frances of Rome Parish & School | $84,450 | 4 | n/a |
| Frieda Incorporated | $80,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Illinois College | $64,762 | 4 | 0% |
| Pilsen Promise Project | $60,513 | 4 | n/a |
| University of Chicago | $57,336 | 2 | 0% |
| St Agnes School | $47,874 | 4 | n/a |
| American Brain Tumor Association | $34,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Brotherhood for the Fallen | $26,310 | 3 | 5% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty Forever Foundation Inc | $136,490 | 5 | n/a |
| Resilience Partners NFP | $90,000 | 5 | 2% |
| St Frances of Rome Parish & School | $84,450 | 4 | n/a |
| Frieda Incorporated | $80,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Illinois College | $64,762 | 4 | 0% |
| Pilsen Promise Project | $60,513 | 4 | n/a |
| University of Chicago | $57,336 | 2 | 0% |
| St Agnes School | $47,874 | 4 | n/a |
| American Brain Tumor Association | $34,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Brotherhood for the Fallen | $26,310 | 3 | 5% |
| Lansing Catholic High School | $26,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Chicago Police Memorial Foundation | $25,689 | 4 | 0% |
| Opportunity Knocks Incorporated | $16,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Indiana University School of Medicine | $14,000 | 4 | n/a |
| University of Dayton | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Catherine University | $10,320 | 2 | 0% |
| Michael P Gordon Memorial Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 36% |
| Marist High School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Resurrection Project | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Empowering Garden Inc | $6,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Ignite the Spirit | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Our Corps Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 10% |
| House of the Good Shepherd | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Ups for Downs Nfp | $4,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Chicago Police Marine Corps League | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Echoing Hope Ranch | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chicago Hope Academy | $3,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $3,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Morton College | $3,490 | 2 | n/a |
| Savannah Tree Foundation Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Northwestern University | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| St Gall School | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Millikin University | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Fenwick High School | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| St Ann School | $2,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| SkyArt NFP | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Providence St Mel School | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Labre Indian School | $1,500 | 2 | n/a |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Knights of Columbus | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Paralyzed Veterans of America | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Abc-Pilsen | $600 | 1 | 0% |
| Aspire of Illinois | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Suburban Unity Alliance | $500 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 125 recipients with no EIN on record ($992k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Master Educational Assistance Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 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: Good Heart Work Smart Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Big Shoulders Fund · The Coleman Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Cme Group Community Foundation F/K/A Nymex Foundation · Forefront · Helen V Brach Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
Compare Master Educational Assistance Foundation with peer funders
About Master Educational Assistance Foundation
- How much does Master Educational Assistance Foundation give?
- Master Educational Assistance Foundation reported 53 grants totaling $384,281 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 59 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Master Educational Assistance Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (48%), Civil Rights (8%), Religion (7%).
- Who are Master Educational Assistance Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Liberty Forever Foundation Inc ($136k), Resilience Partners NFP ($90k), St Frances of Rome Parish & School ($84k).
- Does Master Educational Assistance Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Master Educational Assistance Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Master Educational Assistance Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Good Heart Work Smart Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Big Shoulders Fund.
- Where is Master Educational Assistance Foundation based?
- Master Educational Assistance Foundation is based in IL.
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