Illinois · Private foundation
Oscar & Elsa Mayer Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $531k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2024
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 55 to 70
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 17
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Oscar & Elsa Mayer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 87% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $606k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 48 | $531k | 54% |
| FY2023 | 65 | $695k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 63 | $665k | 48% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $675k | 51% |
| FY2020 | 56 | $863k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 69 | $641k | 42% |
| FY2018 | 70 | $690k | 53% |
| FY2017 | 62 | $684k | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attention Inc | $254,500 | 5 | 2% |
| The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | $180,710 | 4 | 0% |
| Savannah Early Childhood Foundation | $163,500 | 4 | 21% |
| Providence St Mel School | $156,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Dba Cure Sma | $152,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Invest in Kids | $150,000 | 3 | 2% |
| The Campbell Institute | $150,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Grid Alternatives Colorado Inc | $125,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Southwest Energy Efficiency Project | $125,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Transgender Law Center | $122,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 184 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 95 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 Oscar & Elsa Mayer Family 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: Community Foundation Boulder County · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Denver Foundation · The Collins Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Longmont Community Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Oscar & Elsa Mayer Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Oscar & Elsa Mayer Family Foundation
- How much does Oscar & Elsa Mayer Family Foundation give?
- Oscar & Elsa Mayer Family Foundation reported 48 grants totaling $531,280 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 70 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Oscar & Elsa Mayer Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (24%), Health (21%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Oscar & Elsa Mayer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Attention Inc ($255k), The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ($181k), Savannah Early Childhood Foundation ($164k).
- Does Oscar & Elsa Mayer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Oscar & Elsa Mayer 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 Oscar & Elsa Mayer Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Boulder County, M J Murdock Charitable Trust, Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust.
- Where is Oscar & Elsa Mayer Family Foundation based?
- Oscar & Elsa Mayer Family Foundation is based in IL.
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