Tracy Family Foundation

How to apply, from its 2025 IRS return

How to ask

Formal funding grants: Email address: www.tracyfoundation.org Form and content of applications: The majority of organizations are required to first submit a pre-application to the Foundation briefly summarizing their request. These are due 1/1, 5/1, and 9/1. The pre-app is an initial screening based primarily on geography and areas of intent. Organizations will be notified via email if the pre-app is approved or not approved. If approved, organizations will be invited to submit grant…

Deadlines

Grant applications due 3/1, 7/1, 11/1

Limits on who can apply

Restrcictions and limitations on awards: The following applies to unsoliciated grant applications: The organization or project should focus on youth, families, education, mental health, or Brown County. Potential applicants must be traditional charities only, including public charitable institutions, govenmental units, schools, churches or 501 (c) (3) organizations. Eligible counties in Illinois include Adams, Brown, Cass, Greene, Hancock, McDonough, Morgan, Pike, Schuyler, and Scott. Tracy…

Grants paid in 2025

$13.5 million, to organizations

This is what the foundation told the IRS on Form 990-PF. It isn’t a confirmed open grant round, and details may have changed, so contact the foundation before applying. Its mailing address is on the full return: see it on ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer.