Ulta Beauty Charitable Foundation
Bolingbrook, IL · EIN 30-0943172. Reported 93 grants totalling $45.8M to 46 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Ulta Beauty Charitable Foundation, the IRS classifies it under medical research rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE H30) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 46 distinct organizations, with 51% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 64% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $95,000. Half of what it reported fell between $25,000 and $263,078; the smallest was $6,500 and the largest $6,833,985. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $23.5M | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Save the Children Federation Inc | Fairfield, CT | $8,466,190 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago | Chicago, IL | $3,012,336 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Dress for Success Worldwide | New York, NY | $1,570,153 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| YWCA Metropolitan Chicago | Chicago, IL | $1,151,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Covenant House | New York, NY | $950,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Girls Inc of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $700,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Jed Foundation | New York, NY | $700,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Communities in Schools of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $621,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Step Up Womens Network | Los Angeles, CA | $600,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $550,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Donorschoose Org | New York, NY | $390,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Active Minds Inc | Washington, DC | $350,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Charity Navigator | Union City, NJ | $350,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Adler Planetarium | Chicago, IL | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Centerlink Inc | Ft Lauderdale, FL | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Commercial Club Foundation | Chicago, IL | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hispanic Federation Inc | New York, NY | $200,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Pflag Inc | Washington, DC | $167,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Iola Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| National Urban League Inc | New York, NY | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Point Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| GLAM4GOOD Foundation | Dobbs Ferry, NY | $130,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Glsen Inc | New York, NY | $125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Metropolitan Family Services | Merrionette Park, IL | $101,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund | Washington, DC | $100,512 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| True Colors United Inc | New York, NY | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Fearless Foundation | $95,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 | |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | Jacksonville, FL | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Imentor Incorporated | New York, NY | $65,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Chinese American Service League Inc | Chicago, IL | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Best Buddies International Inc | Miami, FL | $52,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Blue Star Families Inc | Encinitas, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Clearbrook | Arlington Hts, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Equality Illinois | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Chinese for Affirmative Action | San Francisco, CA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| After School Matters Inc | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation | Salt Lake City, UT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Equal Justice Initiative | Montgomery, AL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Youth Guidance | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Start Early | Chicago, IL | $21,836 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Conscious Kid | La Jolla, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Junior Achievement of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Chicago Urban League | Chicago, IL | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Friends of Un Techo Para Mi Pais Inc | Miami, FL | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Martin Luther King JR Center Inc | Rock Island, IL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
30 of 46 (65%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- American Red Cross
Humanitarian organization - Donorschooseorg
Public School Classroom Projects - Dress for Success Worldwide
Provides professional attire for low-income women - The Adler Planetarium
Astronomy and astrophysics museum. - Commercial Club Foundation
Represent the business, education, cultural, and philanthropic sectors. - Apia Scholars
Scholarships, Student Success Programs and Research
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 40 of 46 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 12 | $8,090,324 | $25,000 |
| 2022 | 28 | $11.1M | $75,000 |
| 2023 | 26 | $14.0M | $125,000 |
| 2024 | 27 | $12.6M | $200,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
61% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
Down to the city
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $95,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Ulta Beauty Charitable Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1000 Remington Blvd 120, Bolingbrook, IL, 60440.
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