Illinois · Private foundation
Blue Dor 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.
- $118k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Blue Dor Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 14 | $110k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $90k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $85k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $86k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $96k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $66k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $85k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $90k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Direct Giving Lab | $95,000 | 7 | 30% |
| Gratitude Generation Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Businesses United in Investing Lending & Development | $45,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Working Bikes | $40,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights | $38,750 | 8 | 0% |
| Chicago Women's Health Center | $38,750 | 7 | 1% |
| Camp for All Kids | $37,750 | 7 | 1% |
| Beyond the Ball Nfp | $34,000 | 7 | 2% |
| The Clear Fund | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Reading Power Inc | $25,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($129k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Blue Dor Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Rose Community Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Fwdus Education Fund Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
About Blue Dor Foundation
- How much does Blue Dor Foundation give?
- Blue Dor Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $117,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Blue Dor Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Philanthropy (22%), Youth Development (13%).
- Who are Blue Dor Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Direct Giving Lab ($95k), Gratitude Generation Inc ($45k), Businesses United in Investing Lending & Development ($45k).
- Does Blue Dor Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Blue Dor 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 Blue Dor Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rose Community Foundation, AbbVie Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Blue Dor Foundation based?
- Blue Dor Foundation is based in IL.
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