Illinois · Private foundation
The Otho Sa Sprague Memorial Institute
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.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $350,878
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $53M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations The Otho Sa Sprague Memorial Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $468k 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 | 16 | $2.3M | 25% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $2.1M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $1.8M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $1.9M | 43% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $1.5M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $2.1M | 33% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $1.5M | 24% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $1.7M | 56% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heartland Alliance Health | $1,638,781 | 8 | 1% |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | $1,210,441 | 3 | n/a |
| Illinois Public Health Institute | $992,267 | 5 | 6% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $972,800 | 6 | 0% |
| Mobile Care Foundation | $868,435 | 7 | 7% |
| Sinai Health System | $575,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lawndale Christian Health Center | $510,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Health and Medicine Policy Research Group | $429,500 | 7 | 7% |
| Mapscorps | $418,524 | 5 | 24% |
| The Thresholds | $410,548 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Otho Sa Sprague Memorial Institute supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 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: The Chicago Community Trust · Grant Hospital of Chicago D/B/A Grant Healthcare Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation · Michael Reese Health Trust · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · Delta Dental of Illinois Foundation · Pritzker Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Otho Sa Sprague Memorial Institute
- How much does The Otho Sa Sprague Memorial Institute give?
- The Otho Sa Sprague Memorial Institute reported 16 grants totaling $2,320,878 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Otho Sa Sprague Memorial Institute fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (61%), Education (15%), Food & Nutrition (6%).
- Who are The Otho Sa Sprague Memorial Institute's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Heartland Alliance Health ($1.6M), The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois ($1.2M), Illinois Public Health Institute ($992k).
- Does The Otho Sa Sprague Memorial Institute fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Otho Sa Sprague Memorial Institute 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 Otho Sa Sprague Memorial Institute?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Grant Hospital of Chicago D/B/A Grant Healthcare Foundation, Polk Bros Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Otho Sa Sprague Memorial Institute based?
- The Otho Sa Sprague Memorial Institute is based in IL.
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