How much does The Ilsababy Foundation give?

The Ilsababy Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $3,338,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 72 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Ilsababy Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (25%), International (22%), Environment (12%).

Who are The Ilsababy Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Direct Relief ($5.3M), American Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation ($2.2M), Classroom Central Inc ($1.1M).

Does The Ilsababy Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Ilsababy 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 Ilsababy Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, The Nutmeg Foundation Inc, Travelers Foundation.

Where is The Ilsababy Foundation based?

The Ilsababy Foundation is based in SC.

The Ilsababy Foundation

The Ilsababy Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Ilsababy 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.

$3.3M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.0M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$5.9MInternational$5.3MEnvironment$2.7MArts & Culture$2.5MHousing & Shelter$2.0MEducation$1.9MHuman Services$1.1MScience & Tech$780kOther$0

02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k6 grants · $168k
$50k–250k18 grants · $1.7M
$250k+2 grants · $1.5M

$80,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Individual grant recipient	$1,000,000
DIRECT RELIEF	$500,000
HEATHER ABBOTT FDN	$160,000
THE HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND	$150,000
CLASSROOM CENTRAL	$150,000
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS	$125,000
JOURNEY HOME	$105,000
WINTER	$100,000
NEADS	$100,000
OPERATION HOME	$90,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$90,000
NEABPD	$80,000
KATIES KROPS	$80,000
HARTFORD PROMISE	$75,000
JEFFERSON BOARD FOR AGING	$70,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$23M · 89 repeat orgs$917k to everyone else

89 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 66 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$23M

$844k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

+114%

Still filing today

27%

13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesInternationalEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

DIRECT RELIEF
7× · 2019–2025 · $5.3M · revenue +67%
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION
4× · 2018–2022 · $2.2M · revenue +377%
CC
CLASSROOM CENTRAL INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +65%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2019 · $500k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2017 · $100k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2020 · $46k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Upwardly Global

Upwardly global removes employment barriers for immigrant, refugee, and asylee professionals while advancing the inclusion of their skills into the u.s. economy.

Employment

Refugepoint Inc

Refugepoint partners with refugees to access life-changing solutions and transforms how the world supports them. refugepoint seeks to expand access to lasting solutions for refugees, especially those facing vulnerabilities who are…

International

Earthenable Inc

Earthenable works to solve the housing crisis in africa by revolutionizing the rural housing industry through innovative, affordable, and sustainable home-building solutions. its mission is to create healthier, safer, and climate-resilient…

International

Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services

Digital Harbor Foundation

Democratizing societal and economic well-being through digital equity for everyone, increased diversity in the tech sector, innovative education, and technology for the public good

Education

Handicap International

Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.

International

Harborquest Inc

To provide opportunity for a better life through appropriate employment for those disenfranchised from the mainstream economy.

Employment

Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services

Pact Inc

Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)

International

Hollywood Food Coalition

Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. we rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. we care for our immediate community through our wellness program. we build community with and through our…

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Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment

Austin Habitat for Humanity Inc

Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Her Justice Inc; the most unlike its peers is Community Culinary School of Charlotte Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 107 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/30

Grantees still filing

20/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$12,469,090International$5,705,000Human Services$2,013,000Education$1,365,000Recreation & Sports$925,300Housing & Shelter$715,000Arts & Culture$525,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The Nutmeg Foundation Inc · Travelers Foundation · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Carmax Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Ilsababy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ilsababy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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