Illinois · Private foundation
Myers Family 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.
- $97k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 13
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $341k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Myers Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $97k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $131k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $102k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $110k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $161k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $177k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Baby Fold | $130,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Town of Normal Children's Discovery Museum Foundation | $74,000 | 6 | 2% |
| University of Illinois Foundation | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Community Health Care Clinic | $28,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Timber Pointe Charitable Foundation Inc | $27,500 | 6 | 8% |
| McLean County Historical Society | $14,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Lexington Community Center Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Joshua Tree Ministries | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($434k), not named here.
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: Parker Kemp Foundation · Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Snyder Family Foundation Nfp · The Growmark Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Myers Family Foundation
- How much does Myers Family Foundation give?
- Myers Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $97,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Myers Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (41%), Human Services (18%), Philanthropy (12%).
- Who are Myers Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Baby Fold ($130k), Town of Normal Children's Discovery Museum Foundation ($74k), University of Illinois Foundation ($60k).
- Does Myers Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Myers Family 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 Myers Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Parker Kemp Foundation, Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc, Charities Aid Foundation America.
- Where is Myers Family Foundation based?
- Myers Family Foundation is based in IL.
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