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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 36-4052065

Crab Tree Farm Foundation

A private foundation in Lake Bluff, IL. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 2 grants and $11,000 paid in grants.

Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Preselected only

The return checks the box saying the foundation gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Assets and giving by year

8 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.
  • Tax year 2025

    $11,000

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $28,186,314
  • Tax year 2024

    $12,800

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $28,146,457
  • Tax year 2023

    $11,000

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $28,322,202
  • Tax year 2022

    $31,000

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $28,182,142
  • Tax year 2021

    $50,000

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $28,396,303
  • Tax year 2020

    $75,000

    Grants listed
    5
    Assets, end of year
    $29,014,503
  • Tax year 2019

    $112,126

    Grants listed
    9
    Assets, end of year
    $29,129,659
  • Tax year 2018

    $226,302

    Grants listed
    16
    Assets, end of year
    $29,306,719

Grants paid in 2025

2 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Millennium Park FoundationChicago, IL

    2024 annual appeal campaign

    $10,000
  2. Stickley Museum at Craftsman FarmsMorris Plains, NJ

    Reverse auction

    $1,000

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Sports and recreation1 grant $10,000100% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. Illinois1 grant $10,000
  2. New Jersey1 grant $1,000

Officers, directors and trustees

5 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • John H Bryan IIIPRESIDENT Hours 0Pay $0
  • Neville F BryanTREASURER Hours 0Pay $0
  • Nancy P NovitSECRETARY Hours 0Pay $0
  • Margaret Bryan FrenchDIRECTOR Hours 0Pay $0
  • Charles F BryanDIRECTOR Hours 0Pay $0

The return

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