Illinois · Private foundation
The Four Leaf Clover Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2024
- 64
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 59%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $120,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 64
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $19M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 59% of the organizations The Four Leaf Clover Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $390k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 46 | $1.1M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 64 | $1.0M | 59% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $877k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $1.1M | 29% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $991k | 62% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $884k | 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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Migrant and Immigrant Community Action Project | $370,000 | 6 | 10% |
| K-Life Ministries | $345,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Collective Thread | $337,000 | 3 | 40% |
| The Wilson School | $293,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Jackie Joyner Kersee Foundation | $230,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Freedomworks Incorporated | $225,000 | 5 | 4% |
| VEAP Inc | $225,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc | $225,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Heartland | $225,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Feed My Starving Children Inc | $225,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 96 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Four Leaf Clover Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 88 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.
Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · World Wide Technology Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Centene Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Pott Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Berges Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Four Leaf Clover Foundation
- How much does The Four Leaf Clover Foundation give?
- The Four Leaf Clover Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $1,106,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 64 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Four Leaf Clover Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (22%), Education (18%), Health (12%).
- Who are The Four Leaf Clover Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Migrant and Immigrant Community Action Project ($370k), K-Life Ministries ($345k), The Collective Thread ($337k).
- Does The Four Leaf Clover Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Four Leaf Clover 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 Four Leaf Clover Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, St Louis Community Foundation, Commerce Bancshares Foundation.
- Where is The Four Leaf Clover Foundation based?
- The Four Leaf Clover Foundation is based in IL.
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