Illinois · Private foundation
Ranch Spur Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $809k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 43
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Ranch Spur Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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 | 29 | $808k | 3% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $889k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $1.1M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $607k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $594k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $690k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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 Policy Institute | $487,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of North Central Illinois Inc | $395,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago | $332,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Garfield Heritage Society | $318,840 | 6 | 50% |
| Delta Waterfowl Foundation | $277,700 | 5 | 1% |
| Business Executives for National Security | $275,000 | 5 | 1% |
| American Secondary Schools for International Students and Teachers Inc | $212,975 | 6 | 1% |
| Next Generation Bulgaria Fund | $200,000 | 3 | 44% |
| The Conservation Foundation | $199,561 | 5 | 2% |
| Providence St Mel School | $190,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($742k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ranch Spur Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 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: The Chicago Community Trust · Hamill Family Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Macdougal Family Foundation · Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Foundation · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · The Dupage Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
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About Ranch Spur Charitable Trust
- How much does Ranch Spur Charitable Trust give?
- Ranch Spur Charitable Trust reported 30 grants totaling $809,410 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 43 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Ranch Spur Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (20%), Education (18%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Ranch Spur Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Illinois Policy Institute ($488k), Boys & Girls Clubs of North Central Illinois Inc ($395k), Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago ($333k).
- Does Ranch Spur Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ranch Spur Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ranch Spur Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Hamill Family Foundation, American Endowment Foundation.
- Where is Ranch Spur Charitable Trust based?
- Ranch Spur Charitable Trust is based in IL.
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