Illinois · Private foundation
Robert R Nathan Philanthropic Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $25k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 11
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $253k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Robert R Nathan Philanthropic Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50 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 | 4 | $25k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $10k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $533k | 73% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $39k | 71% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $46k | 86% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $51k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $44k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackpackers | $90,239 | 1 | 23% |
| Kramerica Gives | $85,500 | 1 | 56% |
| Veterans Expeditions Inc | $80,000 | 1 | 39% |
| Outdoor Lab Foundation | $80,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Big City Mountaineers | $80,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Lincoln Hills Cares | $79,500 | 1 | 8% |
| Hope Chicago Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Transportation Intermediaries Association | $11,000 | 1 | 0% |
| YWCA Metropolitan Chicago | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fab 5 Foundation Attn Jon Michelon | $5,000 | 1 | 13% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($146k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Robert R Nathan Philanthropic Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 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.
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How this is measured
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About Robert R Nathan Philanthropic Fund
- How much does Robert R Nathan Philanthropic Fund give?
- Robert R Nathan Philanthropic Fund reported 4 grants totaling $25,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 11 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Robert R Nathan Philanthropic Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (23%), Education (18%), Arts & Culture (17%).
- Who are Robert R Nathan Philanthropic Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Blackpackers ($90k), Kramerica Gives ($86k), Veterans Expeditions Inc ($80k).
- Does Robert R Nathan Philanthropic Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert R Nathan Philanthropic Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Robert R Nathan Philanthropic Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
- Where is Robert R Nathan Philanthropic Fund based?
- Robert R Nathan Philanthropic Fund is based in IL.
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