Illinois · Private foundation
The Negaunee 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.
- $34M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 114
- Grants FY2024
- 88
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $60,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $6,150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 87 to 90
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 16
- Total assets, FY2024
- $616M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations The Negaunee Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $366k 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 | 97 | $33M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 88 | $41M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 87 | $20M | 3% |
| FY2021 | 90 | $19M | 11% |
| FY2020 | 89 | $17M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Field Museum of Natural History | $18,856,500 | 5 | 7% |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $15,050,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $13,527,500 | 5 | 5% |
| Ravinia Festival Association | $11,010,000 | 5 | 9% |
| The Illinois Saint Andrew Society | $7,285,000 | 5 | 28% |
| Lyric Opera of Chicago | $5,850,000 | 5 | 3% |
| The Colburn School | $5,800,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Merit School of Music | $3,525,000 | 5 | 13% |
| The Chicago High School for the Arts | $2,781,711 | 2 | 18% |
| Openlands | $2,480,000 | 5 | 14% |
Show all 76 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($23M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Negaunee Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 68 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · Dr Scholl Foundation · John R Halligan Charitable Fund · Zell Family Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Elizabeth F Cheney Foundation · The Irving Harris Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation
How this is measured
About The Negaunee Foundation
- How much does The Negaunee Foundation give?
- The Negaunee Foundation reported 114 grants totaling $33,751,490 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 87 and 90 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Negaunee Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (64%), Environment (15%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are The Negaunee Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Field Museum of Natural History ($19M), Chicago Symphony Orchestra ($15M), Chicago Horticultural Society ($14M).
- Does The Negaunee Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Negaunee 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 Negaunee Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc.
- Where is The Negaunee Foundation based?
- The Negaunee Foundation is based in IL.
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