Illinois · Private foundation
Out of the Box Foundation Inc
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.
- $122k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Out of the Box Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 | 30 | $122k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $119k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $112k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $96k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $75k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $105k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $79k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $71k | 15% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $75,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Cabrini Green Legal Aid | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Pacific Garden Mission | $43,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Lincoln Park Community Services | $37,600 | 9 | 0% |
| Open Books Ltd | $36,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Interfaith America | $36,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Breakthrough Urban Ministries Inc | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Himalayan Youth Foundation Inc | $34,500 | 9 | 2% |
| LINK Unlimited Scholars | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness | $29,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($326k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Out of the Box Foundation Inc 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 · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About Out of the Box Foundation Inc
- How much does Out of the Box Foundation Inc give?
- Out of the Box Foundation Inc reported 30 grants totaling $122,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Out of the Box Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (27%), Housing & Shelter (19%), Food & Nutrition (14%).
- Who are Out of the Box Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Greater Chicago Food Depository ($75k), Cabrini Green Legal Aid ($45k), Pacific Garden Mission ($43k).
- Does Out of the Box Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Out of the Box Foundation Inc 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 Out of the Box Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Robert R McCormick Foundation, Polk Bros Foundation Inc.
- Where is Out of the Box Foundation Inc based?
- Out of the Box Foundation Inc is based in IL.
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