Illinois · Private foundation
New Frontiers Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $116k
- Granted FY2023
- 21
- Grants FY2023
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
94% of New Frontiers Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year New Frontiers Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $116k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 32
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 1
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations New Frontiers Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 21 | $116k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $170k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $156k | 4% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $153k | 3% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $128k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $136k | 11% |
| FY2017 | 32 | $120k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highsight | $150,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Horizons for Youth | $105,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Chicago Jesuit Academy | $78,000 | 8 | n/a |
| One Million Degrees | $66,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Madonna Mission | $62,000 | 6 | 2% |
| One Family Illinois | $58,000 | 7 | 0% |
| High Jump | $46,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Newroot Learning Institute F/K/A Umoja Student Development Corp | $46,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Tutoring Chicago | $42,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Peace Corner Inc | $40,000 | 7 | 25% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($224k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget New Frontiers 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 · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · AbbVie Foundation · WP & HB White Foundation · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Pwc Foundation Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Lohengrin Foundation Inc · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
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About New Frontiers Foundation
- How much does New Frontiers Foundation give?
- New Frontiers Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $116,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does New Frontiers Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (69%), Education (14%), Youth Development (8%).
- Who are New Frontiers Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Highsight ($150k), Horizons for Youth ($105k), Chicago Jesuit Academy ($78k).
- Does New Frontiers Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does New Frontiers Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as New Frontiers Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, AbbVie Foundation.
- Where is New Frontiers Foundation based?
- New Frontiers Foundation is based in IL.
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