Illinois · Private foundation
Purcell Charitable 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.
- $286k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 38
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Purcell Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 | 16 | $261k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $165k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $95k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $124k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $66k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $267k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $581k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cristo Rey Jesuit High School | $128,300 | 6 | n/a |
| Cristo Rey Network | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Aurora Central Catholic High School | $44,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Benet Academy | $40,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $37,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep | $32,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Catholic Church Extension Society of US of Amer | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Cristo Rey Richmond High School Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| United Performing Arts Fund Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Folds of Honor Foundation | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($979k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Purcell Charitable 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: Baird Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Anon Charitable Trust · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Helen V Brach Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Cuneo Foundation
How this is measured
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About Purcell Charitable Foundation
- How much does Purcell Charitable Foundation give?
- Purcell Charitable Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $286,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 38 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Purcell Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (72%), Philanthropy (6%), Religion (4%).
- Who are Purcell Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Cristo Rey Jesuit High School ($128k), Cristo Rey Network ($50k), Aurora Central Catholic High School ($44k).
- Does Purcell Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Purcell Charitable 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 Purcell Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baird Foundation Inc, The Chicago Community Trust, American Endowment Foundation.
- Where is Purcell Charitable Foundation based?
- Purcell Charitable Foundation is based in IL.
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