Illinois · Private foundation
Van Baren 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.
- $9k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,311
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 9
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $111k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Van Baren Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $9k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $5k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $5k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $8k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $14k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $6k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crete Protestant Reformed Church | $20,159 | 6 | n/a |
| Association for Protestant Reformed Education | $12,400 | 5 | 0% |
| Faith United Reformed Church | $10,655 | 2 | n/a |
| Elim Christian Services | $550 | 5 | 0% |
| Peace Protestant Reformed Church | $224 | 1 | n/a |
| Grace Protestant Reformed Church | $133 | 3 | n/a |
| Cornerstone Protestant Reformed Church | $123 | 3 | n/a |
| The Orthodox Presbyterian Church | $50 | 1 | n/a |
| Hope Protestant Reformed Church | $14 | 1 | n/a |
| Trinity United Reformed Church | $12 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crete Protestant Reformed Church | $20,159 | 6 | n/a |
| Association for Protestant Reformed Education | $12,400 | 5 | 0% |
| Faith United Reformed Church | $10,655 | 2 | n/a |
| Elim Christian Services | $550 | 5 | 0% |
| Peace Protestant Reformed Church | $224 | 1 | n/a |
| Grace Protestant Reformed Church | $133 | 3 | n/a |
| Cornerstone Protestant Reformed Church | $123 | 3 | n/a |
| The Orthodox Presbyterian Church | $50 | 1 | n/a |
| Hope Protestant Reformed Church | $14 | 1 | n/a |
| Trinity United Reformed Church | $12 | 1 | n/a |
| Hull Protestant Reformed Church | $6 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($2k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Van Baren Foundation
- How much does Van Baren Foundation give?
- Van Baren Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $9,031 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 9 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Van Baren Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (99%), Education (1%), Crime & Legal (0%).
- Who are Van Baren Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Crete Protestant Reformed Church ($20k), Association for Protestant Reformed Education ($12k), Faith United Reformed Church ($11k).
- Does Van Baren Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Van Baren 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 Van Baren Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Van Baren Foundation based?
- Van Baren Foundation is based in IL.
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