Illinois · Private foundation
Dana Corman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $66k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $574k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Dana Corman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 4 | $66k | 75% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $500 | 0% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $51k | 73% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $36k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $15k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $76k | 80% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $27k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $26k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center on Halsted | $142,930 | 5 | 1% |
| Lutheran Social Services of Illinois | $32,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Marquette University | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $17,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Trinity College | $17,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Greenlight Family Services | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| I Am Who I Am | $4,785 | 2 | n/a |
| Let It Be US | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Utah Families Feeding Families | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center on Halsted | $142,930 | 5 | 1% |
| Lutheran Social Services of Illinois | $32,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Marquette University | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $17,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Trinity College | $17,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Greenlight Family Services | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| I Am Who I Am | $4,785 | 2 | n/a |
| Let It Be US | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Utah Families Feeding Families | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Paws Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Saints of Chicago | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Beyond Hunger | $650 | 1 | 0% |
| Center for Health Justice Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Housing Forward | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Chicago Abortion Fund | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($62k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dana Corman Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: AbbVie Foundation · The Christopher Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Dana Corman Foundation
- How much does Dana Corman Foundation give?
- Dana Corman Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $66,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dana Corman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (63%), Education (28%), Recreation & Sports (5%).
- Who are Dana Corman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Center on Halsted ($143k), Lutheran Social Services of Illinois ($33k), Marquette University ($25k).
- Does Dana Corman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dana Corman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dana Corman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, The Christopher Family Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Dana Corman Foundation based?
- Dana Corman Foundation is based in IL.
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