Illinois · Private foundation
Revada 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.
- $3.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 86
- Grants FY2025
- 77
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 40 to 77
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $54M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Revada Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $545k 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 | 78 | $3.9M | 14% |
| FY2024 | 77 | $8.5M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 72 | $11M | 42% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $8.5M | 23% |
| FY2021 | 56 | $4.0M | 46% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $4.0M | 41% |
| FY2019 | 40 | $6.3M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The National Museum of Women in the Arts | $6,076,625 | 5 | 16% |
| Signature Theatre Inc | $3,800,021 | 7 | 15% |
| Building Bridges Across the River Inc | $3,000,000 | 2 | 11% |
| The Studio Acting Conservatory Inc | $2,841,682 | 5 | 74% |
| University of Chicago | $2,760,300 | 3 | 0% |
| Knox College | $2,463,360 | 7 | 2% |
| Capital Area Food Bank Inc | $1,700,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Codex Foundation | $1,697,700 | 3 | 84% |
| The Bushwick Starr Inc | $940,000 | 7 | 15% |
| Northeastern Illinois University Foundation | $774,000 | 7 | 7% |
Show all 112 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Revada Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 103 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Humanities Council of Washington DC · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Latino Economic Development Corporation · Weissberg Foundation
How this is measured
About Revada Foundation
- How much does Revada Foundation give?
- Revada Foundation reported 86 grants totaling $3,869,096 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 77 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Revada Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (58%), Education (16%), Food & Nutrition (8%).
- Who are Revada Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The National Museum of Women in the Arts ($6.1M), Signature Theatre Inc ($3.8M), Building Bridges Across the River Inc ($3.0M).
- Does Revada Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Revada 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 Revada Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, Nora Roberts Foundation.
- Where is Revada Foundation based?
- Revada Foundation is based in IL.
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