Illinois · Private foundation
Parker Kemp 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.
- $271k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2025
- 68
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $32,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 66 to 77
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Parker Kemp Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% 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 | 55 | $271k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 68 | $248k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 66 | $215k | 2% |
| FY2022 | 69 | $210k | 1% |
| FY2021 | 77 | $268k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 69 | $248k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois Wesleyan University | $125,125 | 6 | 0% |
| Canine Companions for Independence Inc | $116,500 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Colorado Foundation | $111,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Tara Institute of the Performing Arts | $71,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Illinois State University Foundation | $37,400 | 5 | 0% |
| Lexington Community Center Inc | $31,200 | 6 | 29% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $19,750 | 6 | 0% |
| The Baby Fold | $19,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Midwest Food Bank Nfp | $19,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Community Cancer Center Foundation | $17,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($574k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Parker Kemp Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 51 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc · Snyder Family Foundation Nfp · The Growmark Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · United Way of McLean County · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paul a Funk Foundation · Russell and Betty Shirk Foundation · Stephen S and Anne E K Matter Foundation · Myers Family Foundation · Reardon Family Foundation · The Owen Foundation
How this is measured
About Parker Kemp Foundation
- How much does Parker Kemp Foundation give?
- Parker Kemp Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $271,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 66 and 77 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Parker Kemp Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (22%), Philanthropy (13%), Health (13%).
- Who are Parker Kemp Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Illinois Wesleyan University ($125k), Canine Companions for Independence Inc ($117k), University of Colorado Foundation ($112k).
- Does Parker Kemp Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Parker Kemp 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 Parker Kemp Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc, Snyder Family Foundation Nfp, The Growmark Foundation.
- Where is Parker Kemp Foundation based?
- Parker Kemp Foundation is based in IL.
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