Illinois · Private foundation
The Jw Gardner II Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $330k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $47,135
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations The Jw Gardner II Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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 | 21 | $330k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $298k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $278k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $342k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $284k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $268k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $261k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $241k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Salvation Army | $338,924 | 9 | n/a |
| Cheerful Home Association | $260,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Quincy University Corporation | $216,443 | 8 | 0% |
| Quincy Humane Society | $111,940 | 9 | 5% |
| United Way of Adams County Inc | $106,900 | 9 | 2% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc | $100,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Good Samaritan Home Foundation | $95,247 | 4 | 7% |
| Chaddock Attachment and Trauma Services | $69,181 | 5 | 0% |
| Quincy Art Center | $63,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Cornerstone Foundations for Famili | $60,000 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($511k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Jw Gardner II Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 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: Community Foundation of the Quincy Area · Marion G Jackson Char Tr · Michelmann Foundation · Nuessen Family Foundation · Kunes Family Foundation · Hofmeister Foundation · The Cfm Foundation · United Way of Adams County Inc · The Lindsay Family Foundation · Stillwell Foundation · Blessing Hospital · Quincy Medical Group Healthcare Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Jw Gardner II Foundation
- How much does The Jw Gardner II Foundation give?
- The Jw Gardner II Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $330,035 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Jw Gardner II Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (40%), Education (14%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are The Jw Gardner II Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Salvation Army ($339k), Cheerful Home Association ($260k), Quincy University Corporation ($216k).
- Does The Jw Gardner II Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Jw Gardner II Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Jw Gardner II Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Quincy Area, Marion G Jackson Char Tr, Michelmann Foundation.
- Where is The Jw Gardner II Foundation based?
- The Jw Gardner II Foundation is based in IL.
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