Illinois · Private foundation
Three Canopies Foundation Inc
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.
- $8k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,550
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 9
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $114k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Three Canopies Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 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 | 9 | $8k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $6k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $5k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $3k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $3k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dupage Pads Inc | $5,650 | 5 | 0% |
| Loaves & Fishes Community Services | $4,750 | 5 | 0% |
| People's Resource Center | $3,750 | 4 | 0% |
| Lazarus House | $3,400 | 5 | 0% |
| Public Action to Deliver Shelter Inc D/B/A Hesed House | $2,400 | 5 | 0% |
| Bridge Communities Inc | $1,900 | 3 | 0% |
| Midwest Shelter for Homeless Veterans Inc | $1,150 | 4 | 0% |
| West Suburban Community Pantry Inc | $1,050 | 3 | 0% |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $700 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Housing Advocacy and Development | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($275), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Three Canopies Foundation Inc 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
About Three Canopies Foundation Inc
- How much does Three Canopies Foundation Inc give?
- Three Canopies Foundation Inc reported 9 grants totaling $7,625 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 9 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Three Canopies Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (49%), Food & Nutrition (35%), Civil Rights (15%).
- Who are Three Canopies Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Dupage Pads Inc ($6k), Loaves & Fishes Community Services ($5k), People's Resource Center ($4k).
- Does Three Canopies Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Three Canopies Foundation Inc 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 Three Canopies Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Three Canopies Foundation Inc based?
- Three Canopies Foundation Inc is based in IL.
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