Illinois · Private foundation
Dauten Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $18M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $225,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $13,591,510
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $31M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Dauten Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k 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 | 10 | $17M | 30% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $22M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $14M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $30M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $4.0M | 33% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $2.3M | 63% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $2.6M | 57% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $1.7M | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Milken Institute | $70,769,065 | 4 | 10% |
| Fountain House Inc | $7,924,599 | 5 | 8% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $3,414,207 | 4 | 0% |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago | $2,000,032 | 4 | 0% |
| The Josselyn Center Nfp | $1,010,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc | $900,018 | 1 | 1% |
| Lutheran Social Services of Illinois | $839,500 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Utah | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Broad Institute Inc | $300,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Podium Society Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 25% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Milken Institute | $70,769,065 | 4 | 10% |
| Fountain House Inc | $7,924,599 | 5 | 8% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $3,414,207 | 4 | 0% |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago | $2,000,032 | 4 | 0% |
| The Josselyn Center Nfp | $1,010,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc | $900,018 | 1 | 1% |
| Lutheran Social Services of Illinois | $839,500 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Utah | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Broad Institute Inc | $300,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Podium Society Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 25% |
| National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
| NAMI National | $115,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Rush University Medical Center | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Maternal Mental Health Ldrshp Alliance | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Postpartum Support International | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dauten Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
About Dauten Family Foundation
- How much does Dauten Family Foundation give?
- Dauten Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $18,310,204 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dauten Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Social Science (69%), Health (21%), Science & Tech (6%).
- Who are Dauten Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Milken Institute ($71M), Fountain House Inc ($7.9M), Children's Hospital Corporation ($3.4M).
- Does Dauten Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dauten Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dauten Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Dauten Family Foundation based?
- Dauten Family Foundation is based in IL.
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