Illinois · Private foundation
Switzer Scholarship Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $16k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $16,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $16,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 6
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $324k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Switzer Scholarship Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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 | 1 | $16k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $17k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $34k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $42k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $36k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $48k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $37k | 67% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $45k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sauk Valley Community College | $38,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Illinois College | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Monmouth College | $17,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Olivet Nazarene University | $16,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Illinois Valley Community College Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Iowa State University Foundation | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Knox College | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Saint Francis Medical Center | $2,855 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($159k), not named here.
About Switzer Scholarship Fund
- How much does Switzer Scholarship Fund give?
- Switzer Scholarship Fund reported 1 grants totaling $16,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Switzer Scholarship Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (99%), Health (1%).
- Who are Switzer Scholarship Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sauk Valley Community College ($38k), Illinois College ($20k), Monmouth College ($17k).
- Does Switzer Scholarship Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Switzer Scholarship Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Switzer Scholarship Fund based?
- Switzer Scholarship Fund is based in IL.
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