Illinois · Private foundation
Powell 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.
- $90k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 15
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $58k
- 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 Powell 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; $5k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $90k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $93k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $98k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $103k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $105k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $105k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dogs for the Deaf Inc Dba Dogs for Better Lives | $80,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain Raptor Program | $65,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Colorado Animal Rescue Express (CARE) | $65,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Best Friends Animal Society | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Sit Stay Read Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Tree House Humane Society Inc | $43,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Envisioning Access Inc | $35,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Pet Partners | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Save-A-Pet Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Defenders of Animal Rights Inc | $27,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 16 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dogs for the Deaf Inc Dba Dogs for Better Lives | $80,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain Raptor Program | $65,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Colorado Animal Rescue Express (CARE) | $65,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Best Friends Animal Society | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Sit Stay Read Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Tree House Humane Society Inc | $43,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Envisioning Access Inc | $35,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Pet Partners | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Save-A-Pet Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Defenders of Animal Rights Inc | $27,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Animal Rescue Aid Corporation | $25,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Companion Animal Protection Society | $20,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Barnswallow | $18,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Neads Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Companion Animal Program Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 23% |
| Las Vegas Valley Humane Society | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Powell 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: Chubb Charitable Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Powell Foundation
- How much does Powell Foundation give?
- Powell Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $90,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Powell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (81%), Education (10%), Health (6%).
- Who are Powell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Dogs for the Deaf Inc Dba Dogs for Better Lives ($80k), Rocky Mountain Raptor Program ($65k), Colorado Animal Rescue Express (CARE) ($65k).
- Does Powell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Powell 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 Powell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chubb Charitable Foundation, Circle of Service Foundation, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
- Where is Powell Foundation based?
- Powell Foundation is based in IL.
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