Illinois · Private foundation
Trotter Family 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.
- $225k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 57
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Trotter Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k 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 | 2 | $225k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $227k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $175k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $236k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $100k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $100k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 42 | $68k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 57 | $94k | 63% |
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catalyst Schools | $21,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Latin School of Chicago | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Free Union Country School | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Renaissance School | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Tandem Friends School of Charlottesville | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $3,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Big Shoulders Fund | $2,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $2,100 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 48 grantees
Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Trotter Family 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 · Helen V Brach Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · The a Montgomery Ward Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Chicago Board of Trade Foundation · Rice Foundation · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · Baxter International Foundation
How this is measured
About Trotter Family Foundation
- How much does Trotter Family Foundation give?
- Trotter Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $225,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 57 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Trotter Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (61%), Education (25%), Religion (9%).
- Who are Trotter Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Catalyst Schools ($21k), The Latin School of Chicago ($10k), Free Union Country School ($10k).
- Does Trotter Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Trotter Family 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 Trotter Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, Helen V Brach Foundation.
- Where is Trotter Family Foundation based?
- Trotter Family Foundation is based in IL.
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