Illinois · Private foundation
Modestus Bauer Foundation
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.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 136
- Grants FY2025
- 133
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $101,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 130 to 148
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 25
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Modestus Bauer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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 | 133 | $969k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 133 | $966k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 137 | $956k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 145 | $978k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 148 | $986k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 130 | $943k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $498,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Endeavor Health Clinical Operations | $280,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Illinois | $235,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Israel Cancer Research Fund Inc | $164,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $124,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Moraine Township Charitable Fund Charitable Fund | $111,700 | 6 | 15% |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $106,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $105,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $103,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Camp Nebagamon | $96,000 | 5 | 5% |
Show all 151 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 78 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Modestus Bauer 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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · First Bank Chicago Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · Highland Park Community Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Richard & Patricia Cohn Family Foundation · Leva Family Foundation · United Way of Lake County Inc · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · St Louis Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Modestus Bauer Foundation
- How much does Modestus Bauer Foundation give?
- Modestus Bauer Foundation reported 136 grants totaling $1,015,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 130 and 148 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Modestus Bauer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (26%), Philanthropy (16%), Education (10%).
- Who are Modestus Bauer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($498k), Endeavor Health Clinical Operations ($280k), Planned Parenthood of Illinois ($235k).
- Does Modestus Bauer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Modestus Bauer 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 Modestus Bauer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, First Bank Chicago Foundation, AbbVie Foundation.
- Where is Modestus Bauer Foundation based?
- Modestus Bauer Foundation is based in IL.
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