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Illinois · Public charity

Dax Locke Foundation

To serve those affected by cancer, blood diseases, and other catastrophic illnesses with free, in-person, and medically safe camps and other support programs.

$14k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$14,394
Largest grant, FY2022
$14,394
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2018 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$279k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Dax Locke Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20221$14k100%
FY20211$6k0%
FY20201$8k0%
FY20183$229kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.

Human Services$122kPhilanthropy$67kEducation$54kHealth$14k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois$121,60932%
The Timber Pointe Charitable Foundation Inc$67,216195%
Southern Illinois University Foundation$53,77510%
Easterseals Central Illinois$14,39410%

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Charities Aid Foundat…
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA11.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Dax Locke Foundation

How much does Dax Locke Foundation give?
Dax Locke Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $14,394 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2022.
What does Dax Locke Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2022, its largest causes are Human Services (47%), Philanthropy (26%), Education (21%).
Who are Dax Locke Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2022: Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois ($122k), The Timber Pointe Charitable Foundation Inc ($67k), Southern Illinois University Foundation ($54k).
Does Dax Locke Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dax Locke Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charities Aid Foundation America.
Where is Dax Locke Foundation based?
Dax Locke Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 4 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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