Illinois · Private foundation
Yellow-Crowned 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.
- $590k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,790
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $281,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 48
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Yellow-Crowned Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 50 | $590k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $470k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $450k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $579k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $619k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $567k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 45 | $564k | 4% |
| FY2018 | 47 | $586k | 32% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Naples Children Foundation Inc | $1,734,390 | 9 | 1% |
| The Conservancy of Southwest Florida | $510,193 | 9 | 1% |
| Guadalupe Center Inc | $447,607 | 9 | 1% |
| Holy Trinity High School | $162,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Barrington Area Comm Foundation Inc | $142,545 | 9 | 4% |
| Randolph Bourne Institute Inc | $115,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Community Environmental Council | $108,800 | 8 | 1% |
| Cato Institute | $105,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Newberry Library | $95,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Calm Inc | $91,200 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 85 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($530k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Yellow-Crowned Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 78 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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · The Lucky One Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The Little One Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Patricia Bragg Foundation · The Corwith Fund · Tony and Kyra Rogers Foundation · The B & B Foundation · G a Fowler Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Yellow-Crowned Foundation
- How much does Yellow-Crowned Foundation give?
- Yellow-Crowned Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $589,725 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Yellow-Crowned Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (39%), Education (18%), Environment (15%).
- Who are Yellow-Crowned Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Naples Children Foundation Inc ($1.7M), The Conservancy of Southwest Florida ($510k), Guadalupe Center Inc ($448k).
- Does Yellow-Crowned Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Yellow-Crowned 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 Yellow-Crowned Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Ann Jackson Family Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation.
- Where is Yellow-Crowned Foundation based?
- Yellow-Crowned Foundation is based in IL.
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