Illinois · Private foundation
Danielson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $335k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2025
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $42,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 48
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Danielson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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 | 47 | $319k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 48 | $337k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $334k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $330k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $323k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shawnigan USA Fund | $179,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Santa Catalina School | $115,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Outright International | $70,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Human Rights Watch Inc | $67,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $64,900 | 5 | 0% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $62,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Barnard College | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Four Winds | $52,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Wellesley College | $45,000 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $42,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($461k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Danielson 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: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · Boswell Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Otis Booth Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Orange County Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Boston Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
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About Danielson Foundation
- How much does Danielson Foundation give?
- Danielson Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $335,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 48 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Danielson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Arts & Culture (20%), International (10%).
- Who are Danielson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Shawnigan USA Fund ($179k), Santa Catalina School ($116k), Outright International ($70k).
- Does Danielson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Danielson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Danielson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, The Miami Foundation Inc.
- Where is Danielson Foundation based?
- Danielson Foundation is based in IL.
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