Illinois · Private foundation
Trillium 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.
- $83k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 16
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $429k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Trillium Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $82k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $79k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $77k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $79k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $183k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ravinia Festival Association | $59,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Urban Gateways | $57,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Family Focus | $50,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center | $42,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Rotary Club of Highland Park- Highwood | $42,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $41,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Highland Park Community Nursery School | $40,000 | 5 | 1% |
| North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic | $22,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Family Service of Lake County | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Aspiritech Nfp | $14,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ravinia Festival Association | $59,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Urban Gateways | $57,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Family Focus | $50,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center | $42,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Rotary Club of Highland Park- Highwood | $42,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $41,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Highland Park Community Nursery School | $40,000 | 5 | 1% |
| North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic | $22,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Family Service of Lake County | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Aspiritech Nfp | $14,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Jewish Child and Family Services | $13,000 | 5 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($96k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Trillium 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: AbbVie Foundation · Highland Park Community Foundation · Healthcare Foundation of Highland Park · The Lake County Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Mills Family Charitable Foundation · First Bank Chicago Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
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About Trillium Foundation
- How much does Trillium Foundation give?
- Trillium Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $82,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 16 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Trillium Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Human Services (17%), Crime & Legal (13%).
- Who are Trillium Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Ravinia Festival Association ($59k), Urban Gateways ($58k), Family Focus ($51k).
- Does Trillium Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Trillium 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 Trillium Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, Highland Park Community Foundation, Healthcare Foundation of Highland Park.
- Where is Trillium Foundation based?
- Trillium Foundation is based in IL.
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