Illinois · Private foundation
Wayne and Nan Kocourek 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.
- $16M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,047,507
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 37
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $115M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Wayne and Nan Kocourek Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $265k 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 | 34 | $16M | 24% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $14M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $7.4M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $4.2M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $11M | 32% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $3.3M | 15% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $4.3M | 30% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $3.1M | 34% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Sky Bravery Foundation | $11,829,761 | 7 | 53% |
| The V Foundation | $11,811,886 | 9 | 6% |
| Paws Chicago | $8,075,748 | 9 | 7% |
| The Chosen & Dearly Loved Foundation | $2,600,000 | 9 | 46% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Corridor | $2,305,000 | 9 | 40% |
| Tanager Place | $1,800,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Waypoint Services | $1,650,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Mercy Foundation Inc | $1,500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Emeril Lagasse Foundation | $1,499,155 | 7 | 19% |
| Napa Valley Festival Association | $1,402,790 | 3 | 6% |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($13M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Wayne and Nan Kocourek Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 51 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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · John P & Lawrence J Giacoletto Fnd · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · United Fire Group Foundation · Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
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About Wayne and Nan Kocourek Foundation
- How much does Wayne and Nan Kocourek Foundation give?
- Wayne and Nan Kocourek Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $15,728,663 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wayne and Nan Kocourek Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (29%), Human Services (15%), Public Benefit (14%).
- Who are Wayne and Nan Kocourek Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Big Sky Bravery Foundation ($12M), The V Foundation ($12M), Paws Chicago ($8.1M).
- Does Wayne and Nan Kocourek Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wayne and Nan Kocourek 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 Wayne and Nan Kocourek Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, John P & Lawrence J Giacoletto Fnd, The Hall-Perrine Foundation.
- Where is Wayne and Nan Kocourek Foundation based?
- Wayne and Nan Kocourek Foundation is based in IL.
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