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Ernest Wentcher Educational Fund

Name: Ernest Wentcher Educational Fund grants, 2021–2024
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License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

553
grants reported: $14.8M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $10,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

education

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Univ of Illinois Urbana3 grants · $1.4M
University of Michigan5 grants · $1.1M
Univ of Illinois4 grants · $996,882
Depaul Univ5 grants · $778,306
Univ of Illinois Chicago3 grants · $529,413
Cornell Univ5 grants · $506,220
Univ of Wisconsin5 grants · $476,072
Univ of Southern California5 grants · $452,975
Howard University5 grants · $438,356
Loyola University5 grants · $404,466

Giving over time

$5.7M

2021

$3.0M

2022

$3.2M

2023

$3.0M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 553 grants.

$536,932
Univ of Illinois Urbana · Champaign, IL · 2023
Education
$473,652
Univ of Illinois Urbana · Champaign, IL · 2024
Education
$402,273
Univ of Illinois Urbana · Champaign, IL · 2022
Education
$343,164
Univ of Illinois · Champaign, IL · 2021
Education
$343,164
Univ of Illinois · Champaign, IL · 2021
Education
$319,566
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
Education
$279,912
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023
Education
$234,572
Univ of Illinois Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
Education
$186,102
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022
Education
$175,146
Depaul Univ · Chicago, IL · 2023
Education
$172,887
Depaul Univ · Chicago, IL · 2022
Education
$170,273
Depaul Univ · Chicago, IL · 2024
Education
$165,682
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2021
Education
$165,682
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2021
Education
$155,277
Univ of Illinois · Chicago, IL · 2021
Education
$155,277
Univ of Illinois · Chicago, IL · 2021
Education
$153,465
Univ of Illinois Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Education
$141,376
Univ of Illinois Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
Education
$130,000
Depaul Univ · Chicago, IL · 2021
Education
$130,000
Depaul Univ · Chicago, IL · 2021
Education
$121,356
Howard University · Washington, DC · 2024
Education
$116,936
Cornell Univ · Ithaca, NY · 2022
Education
$111,834
Univ of Wisconsin · Madison, WI · 2021
Education
$111,834
Univ of Wisconsin · Madison, WI · 2021
Education
$107,000
Howard University · Washington, DC · 2023
Education
$105,000
Loyola University · Chicago, IL · 2023
Education
$103,980
Cornell Univ · Ithaca, NY · 2021
Education
$103,980
Cornell Univ · Ithaca, NY · 2021
Education
$101,325
Univ of Wisconsin · Madison, WI · 2024
Education
$100,933
Univ of Wisconsin · Madison, WI · 2022
Education
$99,875
Univ of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Education
$98,149
Univ of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Education
$97,500
Loyola University · Chicago, IL · 2024
Education
$97,483
Univ of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Education
$96,824
Cornell Univ · Ithaca, NY · 2023
Education
$88,666
Loyola University · Chicago, IL · 2022
Education
$87,927
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2024
Education
$84,500
Cornell Univ · Ithaca, NY · 2024
Education
$78,756
Iit · Chicago, IL · 2022
Education
$78,734
Univ of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2021
Education
$78,734
Univ of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2021
Education
$78,336
Iit · Chicago, IL · 2021
Education
$78,336
Iit · Chicago, IL · 2021
Education
$74,932
Univ of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
Education
$74,146
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2021
Education
$74,146
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2021
Education
$70,000
Howard University · Washington, DC · 2022
Education
$70,000
Howard University · Washington, DC · 2021
Education
$70,000
Howard University · Washington, DC · 2021
Education
$67,745
Emory Univ · Atlanta, GA · 2021
Education
$67,745
Emory Univ · Atlanta, GA · 2021
Education
$67,715
Oakton Comm College · Des Plaines, IL · 2021
Education
$67,715
Oakton Comm College · Des Plaines, IL · 2021
Education
$65,407
Iit · Chicago, IL · 2024
Education
$63,000
Oakton Comm College · Des Plaines, IL · 2022
Education
$56,650
Loyola University · Chicago, IL · 2021
Education
$56,650
Loyola University · Chicago, IL · 2021
Education
$51,924
Iit · Chicago, IL · 2023
Education
$51,853
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2023
Education
$50,146
Univ of Wisconsin · Madison, WI · 2023
Education
$49,772
Dominican Univ · River Forest, IL · 2024
Education
$48,921
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2022
Education
$48,500
George Washington University · Ashburn, VA · 2022
Education
$46,356
Middlebury College · Middlebury, VT · 2024
Education
$43,975
Univ of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
Education
$41,475
Illinois State University · Normal, IL · 2023
Education
$41,398
Oakton Comm College · Des Plaines, IL · 2023
Education
$41,246
Middlebury College · Middlebury, VT · 2022
Education
$40,000
Spelman College · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Education
$40,000
Univ of Notre Dame · Notre Dame, IN · 2022
Education
$40,000
George Washington University · Ashburn, VA · 2021
Education
$40,000
George Washington University · Ashburn, VA · 2021
Education
$39,800
Middlebury College · Middlebury, VT · 2023
Education
$39,782
Lewis University · Romeoville, IL · 2023
Education
$39,000
George Washington University · Ashburn, VA · 2023
Education
$38,750
Emory Univ · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Education
$36,990
Columbia Univ · New York, NY · 2022
Education
$36,766
Emory Univ · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Education
$36,500
Washington University · St Louis, MO · 2022
Education
$36,416
Illinois State University · Normal, IL · 2022
Education
$36,346
Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2021
Education
$36,346
Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2021
Education
$35,250
Univ of Notre Dame · Notre Dame, IN · 2021
Education
$35,250
Univ of Notre Dame · Notre Dame, IN · 2021
Education
$34,468
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2021
Education
$34,468
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2021
Education
$32,426
Illinois State University · Normal, IL · 2021
Education
$32,426
Illinois State University · Normal, IL · 2021
Education
$32,247
Univ of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Education
$32,000
Bradley University · Peoria, IL · 2023
Education
$31,750
Morehouse College · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Education
$31,341
Illinois State University · Normal, IL · 2024
Education
$31,000
School of the Art Institute of Chic · Chicago, IL · 2021
Education
$31,000
School of the Art Institute of Chic · Chicago, IL · 2021
Education
$30,000
Morehouse College · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Education
$30,000
Northeastern University · Boston, MA · 2024
Education
$30,000
Pomona College · Claremont, CA · 2024
Education
$30,000
Spelman College · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Education
$30,000
Bradley University · Peoria, IL · 2022
Education
$30,000
Knox College · Galesburg, IL · 2022
Education

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.