Illinois · Private foundation
The Fermata Charitable 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.
- $186k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $85,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 25
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations The Fermata Charitable Foundation 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; $9k 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 | 17 | $186k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $388k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $381k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $159k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $645k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $645k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $171k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $147,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Dupage Pads Inc | $99,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Bridge Communities Inc | $37,500 | 6 | 0% |
| National Alliance on Mental Illness Johnson County | $36,000 | 4 | 3% |
| National Alliance on Mental Illness-Iowa Inc | $22,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Scarce | $18,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $13,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Outreach House | $13,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Catherine McAuley Center Inc | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Shelter House Community Shelter and Transition Services | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Fermata Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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: Community Foundation of Johnson County · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · GreenState Credit Union · Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc · Washington County Riverboat Foundation Inc · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · The Dupage Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Edward Jones Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About The Fermata Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Fermata Charitable Foundation give?
- The Fermata Charitable Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $186,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 25 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Fermata Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (76%), Health (6%), Food & Nutrition (6%).
- Who are The Fermata Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Northern Illinois Food Bank ($147k), Dupage Pads Inc ($99k), Bridge Communities Inc ($38k).
- Does The Fermata Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Fermata Charitable 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 The Fermata Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Johnson County, Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, GreenState Credit Union.
- Where is The Fermata Charitable Foundation based?
- The Fermata Charitable Foundation is based in IL.
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