Texas · Private foundation
The Ithaka Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $146k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2024
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 23
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations The Ithaka Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 | 18 | $146k | 39% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $145k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $166k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $182k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $89k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $155k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $131k | 27% |
| FY2017 | 18 | $116k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Aspen Institute Inc | $190,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts | $155,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Montgomery Countryside Alliance Inc | $115,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Pestalozzi US Childrens Charity Inc | $85,224 | 8 | 6% |
| Friends of the Library of Congress | $75,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Potomac School | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Washington Revels Inc | $48,750 | 5 | 3% |
| Glessner House Museum | $41,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Revels Houston Inc | $30,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Revelsinc | $27,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($201k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ithaka 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: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Ithaka Foundation
- How much does The Ithaka Foundation give?
- The Ithaka Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $146,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Ithaka Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (43%), Social Science (17%), Education (11%).
- Who are The Ithaka Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Aspen Institute Inc ($190k), Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts ($155k), Montgomery Countryside Alliance Inc ($115k).
- Does The Ithaka Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ithaka Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ithaka Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc, Greater Washington Community Foundation, Ibm International Foundation.
- Where is The Ithaka Foundation based?
- The Ithaka Foundation is based in TX.
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