Kentucky · Private foundation
Ventas Charitable Foundation 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.
- $577k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 35
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 55
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 65%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $524k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $249,524
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 55
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 65% of the organizations Ventas Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $292k 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 | 34 | $499k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 55 | $1.1M | 65% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $638k | 72% |
| FY2021 | 47 | $544k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $723,214 | 3 | 0% |
| The Global Institute on Innovation Districts Inc | $425,000 | 2 | 77% |
| John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | $190,252 | 2 | 0% |
| The Commercial Club Foundation | $110,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $72,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy | $55,025 | 3 | 0% |
| Nareit Foundation | $55,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Northside Center for Child Development Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| After School Matters Inc | $44,100 | 4 | 0% |
| The American Alpine Club | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($482k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ventas Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 77 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.
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How this is measured
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About Ventas Charitable Foundation Inc
- How much does Ventas Charitable Foundation Inc give?
- Ventas Charitable Foundation Inc reported 35 itemized grants totaling $523,785, out of $577,035 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 55 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Ventas Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (17%), Community Improvement (16%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are Ventas Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Greater Chicago Food Depository ($723k), The Global Institute on Innovation Districts Inc ($425k), John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ($190k).
- Does Ventas Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ventas Charitable 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 Ventas Charitable Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baird Foundation Inc, Republic Bank Foundation Inc, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Ventas Charitable Foundation Inc based?
- Ventas Charitable Foundation Inc is based in KY.
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