Illinois · Private foundation
Tara 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.
- $53k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,230
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 36
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Tara Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 | 25 | $53k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $119k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $80k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $44k | 69% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $55k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $31k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $28k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $34k | 42% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School | $43,200 | 3 | 0% |
| Medical University of South Carolina Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sea Island Habitat For Humanity Inc | $12,745 | 5 | 0% |
| Barrier Islands Free Medical Clinic | $11,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Loaves & Fishes Community Services | $10,510 | 2 | 0% |
| Sea Island Hunger Awareness Foundation | $9,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Arts Etc | $7,450 | 3 | 2% |
| Backpack Buddies Seabrook Island | $7,300 | 3 | 3% |
| Meet The Needs Charleston | $6,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Lowcountry Food Bank Inc | $6,400 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($265k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tara 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: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Kelly Family Foundation · The Joanna Foundation · George R & Janet E Desko Charitable Foundation · Beyond Our Gates Foundation of Kiawah & Seabrook · The Dupage Community Foundation · Exchange Club Charitable Organization · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Walter S & Lucienne B Driskill Foundation · The Gloria and Joseph Bauer Foundation · Kiawah Cares Foundation
How this is measured
About Tara Foundation
- How much does Tara Foundation give?
- Tara Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $52,975 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Tara Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (46%), Education (11%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
- Who are Tara Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School ($43k), Medical University of South Carolina Foundation ($15k), Sea Island Habitat For Humanity Inc ($13k).
- Does Tara Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tara 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 Tara Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Kelly Family Foundation, The Joanna Foundation.
- Where is Tara Foundation based?
- Tara Foundation is based in IL.
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