Georgia · Private foundation
The Norman & Emmy Lou Illges 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.
- $77k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 23
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations The Norman & Emmy Lou Illges Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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 | 6 | $77k | 67% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $48k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $2.8M | 71% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $297k | 78% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $285k | 69% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $272k | 88% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $268k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Family Foundation | $2,683,111 | 1 | n/a |
| Nola Micro Schools | $145,000 | 3 | 22% |
| St Thomas Episcopal Church | $73,000 | 3 | n/a |
| La Paz de Dios Inc | $45,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Emmett Till Interpretive Center | $35,000 | 3 | 2% |
| New Horizon Community Theatre Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 27% |
| Augusta University Real Estate Foundation Inc | $33,000 | 1 | 0% |
| 4point0 Schools | $30,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Highlands Day School Foundation | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Asheville High School Band Association | $25,150 | 2 | 23% |
Show all 43 grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($555k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Norman & Emmy Lou Illges Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 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 Chattahoochee Valley Inc · The Jordan Foundation Inc · Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc · Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc · Richard and Helen Robbins Family Foundation Inc · Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc · Benwood Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Walter Alan Richards Foundation · Jackson-Burgin Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Norman & Emmy Lou Illges Foundation
- How much does The Norman & Emmy Lou Illges Foundation give?
- The Norman & Emmy Lou Illges Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $76,650 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Norman & Emmy Lou Illges Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (80%), Education (9%), Arts & Culture (3%).
- Who are The Norman & Emmy Lou Illges Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: A Family Foundation ($2.7M), Nola Micro Schools ($145k), St Thomas Episcopal Church ($73k).
- Does The Norman & Emmy Lou Illges Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Norman & Emmy Lou Illges 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 Norman & Emmy Lou Illges Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc, The Jordan Foundation Inc, Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Norman & Emmy Lou Illges Foundation based?
- The Norman & Emmy Lou Illges Foundation is based in GA.
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