Illinois · Private foundation
Mirapaul Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $362k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 61
- Grants FY2025
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 52
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Mirapaul Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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 | 60 | $352k | 35% |
| FY2024 | 52 | $320k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $326k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $357k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $400k | 34% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $348k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $340k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $296k | 46% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Directions Inc | $534,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Old Town School of Folk Music | $259,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Direct Relief | $217,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Writers Theatre Inc | $172,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Rails to Trails Conservancy | $150,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank | $120,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Illinois | $82,500 | 7 | 0% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Western Pa Inc | $74,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Society for Art in Crafts | $67,500 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 109 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($422k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mirapaul Foundation 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · The Fine Foundation · Forefront · The Heinz Endowments · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · McKinney Charitable Foundation · Giant Eagle Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · Reva and David Logan Foundation · Opportunity Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation
How this is measured
About Mirapaul Foundation
- How much does Mirapaul Foundation give?
- Mirapaul Foundation reported 61 grants totaling $362,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 52 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mirapaul Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (39%), Human Services (18%), International (9%).
- Who are Mirapaul Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New Directions Inc ($534k), Old Town School of Folk Music ($260k), Direct Relief ($218k).
- Does Mirapaul Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mirapaul Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mirapaul Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, The Fine Foundation, Forefront.
- Where is Mirapaul Foundation based?
- Mirapaul Foundation is based in IL.
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