Illinois · Private foundation
Ngai 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.
- $12k
- Granted FY2021
- 11
- Grants FY2021
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2021
Read this first · the figures below need context
61% of Ngai Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Ngai Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $12k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2021
- $460
- Largest grant, FY2021
- $3,534
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 11
- FY2019 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2021
- 2
- Total assets, FY2021
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 55% of the organizations Ngai Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 11 | $12k | 55% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $5k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $6k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assumption Church | $13,718 | 7 | n/a |
| The Catherine Cook School | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| St Michaels Church | $3,535 | 2 | n/a |
| Misericordia Home | $3,035 | 3 | 0% |
| Ladder Up (F/K/A City-Wide Tax Assistance Program) | $606 | 1 | 0% |
| Kind One | $500 | 1 | 1% |
| Lincoln Park Zoological Society | $284 | 2 | 0% |
| Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry | $200 | 1 | n/a |
| The Chicago Academy of Sciences | $119 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($106k), 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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Ngai Foundation
- How much does Ngai Foundation give?
- Ngai Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $11,512 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2021.
- What does Ngai Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Religion (19%), Human Services (3%).
- Who are Ngai Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Assumption Church ($14k), The Catherine Cook School ($9k), St Michaels Church ($4k).
- Does Ngai Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ngai 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 Ngai Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Ngai Foundation based?
- Ngai Foundation is based in IL.
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