Illinois · Private foundation
The Yankee Springer 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.
- $99k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $360
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $38,875
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 48
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations The Yankee Springer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 39 | $99k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 46 | $101k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $96k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $106k | 84% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $103k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $141k | 62% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $127k | 74% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $45k | 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education | $283,461 | 6 | 0% |
| Employee Connections | $90,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Ravinia Festival Association | $43,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Agudas Achim Congregation | $19,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $12,105 | 4 | 0% |
| Globalgiving Foundation Inc | $11,265 | 5 | 0% |
| Makom Solel Lakeside | $8,280 | 3 | n/a |
| Iowa Public Radio Inc | $7,400 | 3 | 0% |
| Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 78 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 60 recipients with no EIN on record ($279k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Yankee Springer 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: Meyer Memorial Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Larson Legacy · The Reser Family Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust
How this is measured
About The Yankee Springer Foundation
- How much does The Yankee Springer Foundation give?
- The Yankee Springer Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $98,776 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Yankee Springer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), Arts & Culture (16%), Religion (15%).
- Who are The Yankee Springer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ($283k), Employee Connections ($90k), Ravinia Festival Association ($43k).
- Does The Yankee Springer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Yankee Springer 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 Yankee Springer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Meyer Memorial Trust, The Oregon Community Foundation, The Collins Foundation.
- Where is The Yankee Springer Foundation based?
- The Yankee Springer Foundation is based in IL.
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