Illinois · Private foundation
Trott Family Philanthropies Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $17M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 77
- Grants FY2024
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 46%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,094,626
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 39
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 28
- Total assets, FY2024
- $98M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 46% of the organizations Trott Family Philanthropies Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.7M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 52 | $16M | 58% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $15M | 46% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $9.5M | 68% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $8.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Chicago | $9,233,333 | 4 | 0% |
| Horatio Alger Assn of Distinguished Americans Inc | $3,296,064 | 3 | 6% |
| The Scholarship Foundation of St Louis | $2,691,638 | 3 | 10% |
| Rooted Alliance Inc | $2,100,000 | 1 | 47% |
| The National World War II Museum Inc | $2,000,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Conservation International Foundation | $2,000,000 | 1 | 1% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $1,925,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Center for Strategic and International Studies | $1,550,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Ohio State University Foundation | $1,200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $1,100,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 67 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($12M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Trott Family Philanthropies Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 60 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 · The Trott Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Orange County Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc
How this is measured
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About Trott Family Philanthropies Inc
- How much does Trott Family Philanthropies Inc give?
- Trott Family Philanthropies Inc reported 77 grants totaling $17,417,443 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 39 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Trott Family Philanthropies Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (60%), Recreation & Sports (8%), International (8%).
- Who are Trott Family Philanthropies Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: University of Chicago ($9.2M), Horatio Alger Assn of Distinguished Americans Inc ($3.3M), The Scholarship Foundation of St Louis ($2.7M).
- Does Trott Family Philanthropies Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Trott Family Philanthropies 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 Trott Family Philanthropies Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, The Trott Family Foundation, The Ayco Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Trott Family Philanthropies Inc based?
- Trott Family Philanthropies Inc is based in IL.
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