Illinois · Private foundation
Daniel and Gloria Kearney Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $185k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 68
- Grants FY2024
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 54
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Daniel and Gloria Kearney Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 67 | $184k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $197k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $169k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $143k | 52% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $190k | 52% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $61k | 70% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $56k | 93% |
| FY2017 | 11 | $69k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Civic Federation | $245,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Wirepoints Corp | $70,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Foundation Inc | $50,086 | 1 | 0% |
| Openlands | $15,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $14,300 | 4 | 0% |
| The Chicago Council on Global Affairs | $13,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $12,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Lyric Opera of Chicago | $11,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Writers Theatre Inc | $10,300 | 6 | 0% |
| Friends of the Parks | $7,250 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 76 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($488k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Daniel and Gloria Kearney 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: Dr Scholl Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · C Gary and Virginia Gerst Foundation · Lavin Family Foundation · Fulk Family Foundation Inc · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust
How this is measured
Compare Daniel and Gloria Kearney Foundation with peer funders
About Daniel and Gloria Kearney Foundation
- How much does Daniel and Gloria Kearney Foundation give?
- Daniel and Gloria Kearney Foundation reported 68 grants totaling $184,745 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 54 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Daniel and Gloria Kearney Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (43%), Health (18%), Philanthropy (14%).
- Who are Daniel and Gloria Kearney Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Civic Federation ($245k), Wirepoints Corp ($70k), Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Foundation Inc ($50k).
- Does Daniel and Gloria Kearney Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Daniel and Gloria Kearney 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 Daniel and Gloria Kearney Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dr Scholl Foundation, Essex County Community Foundation Inc, Ge Aerospace Foundation.
- Where is Daniel and Gloria Kearney Foundation based?
- Daniel and Gloria Kearney Foundation is based in IL.
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