Illinois · Private foundation
The Tarko 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.
- $87k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 63%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 30
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $926k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 63% of the organizations The Tarko Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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 | 25 | $87k | 56% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $50k | 63% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $51k | 45% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $59k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $48k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $34k | 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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center for the Integration of Dance and Martial Arts | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Holocaust Center For Humanity | $15,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $13,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Washington Bus Education Fund | $12,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Freedom House | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Service | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Ballard Food Bank | $8,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Wisconsin Voices Inc | $8,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Friends of the Chicago River | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Chicago Votes | $6,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 73 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($65k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Tarko Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · The Joyce Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Dr Scholl Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Julian Grace Foundation · Walder Foundation · Builders Vision Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Tarko Foundation
- How much does The Tarko Foundation give?
- The Tarko Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $86,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 30 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Tarko Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (14%), Public Benefit (14%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
- Who are The Tarko Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Center for the Integration of Dance and Martial Arts ($20k), Holocaust Center For Humanity ($15k), Greater Chicago Food Depository ($13k).
- Does The Tarko Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Tarko 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 Tarko Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, Field Foundation of Illinois.
- Where is The Tarko Foundation based?
- The Tarko Foundation is based in IL.
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