How much does Prince Foundation give?

Prince Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $159,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 65 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Prince Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (83%), Environment (5%), Housing & Shelter (1%).

Who are Prince Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: National Park Foundation ($600k), Chicago Theatre Group Inc ($397k), Chicago Human Rhythm Project ($295k).

Does Prince Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Prince Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Prince Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc, Field Foundation of Illinois.

Where is Prince Foundation based?

Prince Foundation is based in IL.

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Prince Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$160k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 10
Grants FY2024: 3
Organizations funded FY2023: 33%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $35,000
Organizations funded a year: 3 to 65; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 6
Total assets, FY2024: $2.2M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Prince Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureInternationalEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	9	$155k	56%
FY2023	3	$55k	33%
FY2022	61	$2.3M	8%
FY2021	65	$2.4M	17%
FY2020	65	$2.4M	17%
FY2019	60	$2.6M	18%
FY2018	60	$2.1M	17%
FY2017	55	$1.9M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$11MEnvironment$690kHousing & Shelter$200kHuman Services$200kYouth Development$195kEducation$190kAnimals$180kCivil Rights$150kOther$0

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
National Park Foundation	$600,000	4	0%
Chicago Theatre Group Inc	$397,000	3	2%
Chicago Human Rhythm Project	$295,000	6	9%
League of Chicago Theatres Foundation	$285,000	6	8%
Albany Park Theater Project	$280,000	6	5%
Timeline Theatre Company	$277,000	6	2%
Lifeline Productions Inc	$275,000	6	7%
Young Chicago Authors	$270,000	6	6%
Chicago Artists Coalition	$269,000	6	18%
Puerto Rican Arts Alliance	$265,000	6	9%

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All grantees of Prince Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
National Park Foundation	$600,000	4	0%
Chicago Theatre Group Inc	$397,000	3	2%
Chicago Human Rhythm Project	$295,000	6	9%
League of Chicago Theatres Foundation	$285,000	6	8%
Albany Park Theater Project	$280,000	6	5%
Timeline Theatre Company	$277,000	6	2%
Lifeline Productions Inc	$275,000	6	7%
Young Chicago Authors	$270,000	6	6%
Chicago Artists Coalition	$269,000	6	18%
Puerto Rican Arts Alliance	$265,000	6	9%
Beverly Arts Center of Chicago	$255,000	6	3%
Maywood Fine Arts Association	$250,000	6	5%
About Face Theatre Collective Inc	$245,000	6	8%
Illinois Arts Alliance	$245,000	6	15%
Gilloury Institute	$240,000	6	5%
International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago	$240,000	6	21%
3arts Inc	$240,000	6	4%
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras	$240,000	6	3%
Remy Bumppo Theatre Company	$235,000	6	6%
Gus Giordano's Jazz Dance Chicago Inc D/B/A Giordano Dance Chicago	$231,836	6	7%
Chicago Filmmakers	$216,000	6	6%
Ensemble Espanol	$215,000	6	5%
Cedille Chicago Nfp	$212,000	6	4%
Jazz Institute of Chicago	$211,000	6	9%
Chicago Children's Theatre	$211,000	6	2%
Classical Music Chicago	$210,000	6	6%
Swedish American Museum Association of Chicago	$210,000	6	5%
American Blues Theater Nfp	$210,000	6	4%
Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago	$210,000	6	2%
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago	$210,000	6	3%
SkyArt NFP	$205,000	6	6%
Chicago Jazz Philharmonic	$205,000	6	6%
IntuitCenter for IntuitiveOutsider Art	$205,000	5	8%
Natya Dance Theatre	$200,000	6	6%
Raven Theatre Company	$200,000	6	7%
Storycatchers	$195,000	5	3%
Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance	$190,000	4	4%
House Theatre of Chicago	$180,000	5	4%
The National Public Housing Museum	$180,000	5	3%
National Musuem of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture	$170,000	5	4%
The People's Music School	$160,000	4	2%
Theater Wit Nfp	$155,000	6	6%
Links Hall Inc	$152,000	4	12%
Third Coast Percussion Nfp	$150,000	4	5%
Changing Worlds	$150,000	4	5%
Accessible Contemporary Music	$140,000	4	5%
Northwestern University Settlement Association	$137,000	4	0%
Columbia College Chicago	$125,619	3	0%
Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival	$110,000	3	5%
Fifth House Ensemble	$105,000	3	7%
The Arts of Life Inc	$100,778	3	3%
Shedd Aquarium Society	$100,000	1	0%
Africa International House USA Inc	$91,000	5	15%
Facets Film Forum	$90,000	3	3%
Music of the Baroque	$80,000	2	n/a
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc	$80,000	2	0%
Eighth Blackbird Performing Arts Association	$80,000	2	n/a
Kuumba Lynx	$80,000	2	4%
Friends of Anacostia Park	$77,000	1	10%
The Chicago Philharmonic Society	$70,000	2	2%
Contextos Nfp	$70,000	2	2%
Native Sons and Daughters of Greater Kansas City Inc	$70,000	2	80%
Music Theatre Works Inc	$60,000	2	n/a
The Ruth Page Foundation	$60,000	2	n/a
Lawyers for the Creative Arts	$60,000	2	8%
The Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus	$60,000	2	7%
Firebird Community Arts	$60,000	2	3%
OTV Open Television Inc	$55,322	2	3%
St George's School	$55,000	1	0%
Howard Brown Health Center	$50,000	1	0%
The Night Ministry	$50,000	1	0%
The Newport Tree Conservancy	$49,500	2	12%
Hyde Park Art Center	$45,000	1	2%
Kartemquin Educational Films	$40,000	1	n/a
Friends of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens	$40,000	4	5%
American Theater Company	$36,000	1	6%
Elmwood Cemetery Foundation	$35,000	1	n/a
Video Volunteers	$35,000	7	2%
Grant Foundation Inc	$30,000	2	0%
Srba Historic Building and Environmental Preservation Foundation	$30,000	2	3%
Urban Growers Collective Inc	$25,000	1	1%
The Art Institute of Chicago	$25,000	1	0%
Chesapeake Bay Trust	$25,000	1	0%
The Berkshire School Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Auxiliary of John H Stroger Jr Hospital of Cook County	$25,000	1	17%
Core Community Organized Relief Effort	$25,000	1	0%
Center for Housing and Health	$20,000	1	0%
Loyola Academy	$20,000	2	n/a
Chicago Cares Inc	$20,000	1	0%
The Woman's Board of Northwestern Memorial Hospital	$20,000	1	2%
Crossroads Fund Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Green Oceans	$10,000	1	1%
Lutheran Social Services National Capital Areainc	$10,000	1	0%
Friends of Newport Skatepark	$10,000	1	1%
Initiative to Educate Afghan Women	$10,000	4	3%
Allen-Chase Foundation Dba Eaglebrook School	$10,000	1	0%
Columbia Land Trust	$5,000	1	0%
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare	$5,000	1	0%
Remote Area Medical	$5,000	1	0%
Highsight	$5,000	1	1%
Save Venice Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Middleburg Community Center Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc	$2,500	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($550k), not named here.

Prince Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 96 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 96.

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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.

John D and Catherine T Macarthur FoundationIL78.2× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · Field Foundation of Illinois · The Chicago Community Trust · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Walder Foundation · Alphawood Foundation · League of Chicago Theatres Foundation · Reva and David Logan Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Prince Foundation

How much does Prince Foundation give?: Prince Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $159,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 65 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Prince Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (83%), Environment (5%), Housing & Shelter (1%).
Who are Prince Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: National Park Foundation ($600k), Chicago Theatre Group Inc ($397k), Chicago Human Rhythm Project ($295k).
Does Prince Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Prince Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Prince Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc, Field Foundation of Illinois.
Where is Prince Foundation based?: Prince Foundation is based in IL.