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Dauten Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$18M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$14M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Social Science$71MHealth$21MScience & Tech$6.0MEducation$1.5MArts & Culture$1.2MPublic Benefit$925kHuman Services$840k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $500k
  • $250k+5 grants · $18M
$225,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MILKEN INSTITUTE$13,591,510
FOUNTAIN HOUSE$1,955,694
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$1,000,000
LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO$728,000
JOSSELYN CENTER$500,000
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$225,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY$150,000
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS$125,000
BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION$25,000
POSTPARTUM SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL$5,000
MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BROAD INSTITUTE: $150k → 8%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $689k → 16%MAYO CLINIC: $511k → 9%THE PODIUM SOCIETY: $250k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $500k → 8%JOSSELYN CENTER: $500k → 14%BROAD INSTITUTE: $150k → 8%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $225k → 16%MAYO CLINIC: $504k → 9%THE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $28.1M → 14%JOSSELYN CENTER: $500k → 14%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $2.7M → 8%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY: $739k → 16%THE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $19.8M → 14%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $1.8M → 8%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY: $535k → 16%THE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $13.6M → 14%LUTHERN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS: $250k → 14%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $1.0M → 8%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY: $500k → 16%THE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $9.3M → 14%WETA (GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION): $900k → 7%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $1.0M → 8%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $1.5M → 16%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $318k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY: $300k → 16%FOUNTAIN HOUSE: $2.9M → 17%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $138k → 8%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $975k → 16%FOUNTAIN HOUSE: $2.0M → 17%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY: $150k → 16%FOUNTAIN HOUSE: $1.8M → 17%THE KENNEDY FORUM: $350k → 14%FOUNTAIN HOUSE: $1.0M → 17%FOUNTAIN HOUSE: $250k → 17%THE KENNEDY FORUM: $325k → 14%THE KENNEDY FORUM: $250k → 14%ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOPITAL OF CHICAGO: $801k → 14%ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $735k → 14%LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $728k → 14%NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $529k → 14%ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $265k → 14%NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $250k → 14%NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $221k → 14%ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $200k → 14%DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE: $395k → 14%DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE: $140k → 14%DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE: $135k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$92M · 15 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
5

Total granted

$92M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+30%

Still filing today

67%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $738k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TM
    THE MILKEN INSTITUTE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $71M · revenue +42%
  • FH
    FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $7.9M · revenue +78%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    4× · 2018–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • GW
    GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $900k · revenue +30%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
    one grant, 2024 · $500k
  • PS
    Podium Society Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +17% · 25% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
2
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
3
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
4
Stanley Manne Childrens Research Institute

Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.

Health
5
Children's Hospital of Chicago Medical Center

We are dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for the northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a leader in: -pediatric health care delivery…

Health
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
8
Massachusetts Medical Society

To advance medical knowledge, to develop and maintain the highest professional and ethical standards of medical practice and health care, and to promote medical institutions formed on liberal principles for the health, benefit, and welfare…

9
Pediatric Physician Services Inc

The corporation is organized for charitable, educational and scientific purposes, and to provide healthcare services of pediatric specialty physicians and other personnel to the patients of johns hopkins all children's hospital and…

10
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
11
Pediatric Faculty Foundation Inc

We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…

Health
12
Rush System for Health

The mission of Rush University System for Health is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities it serves through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research, and community partnerships.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services of Illinois and the most unlike its peers is Podium Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
16/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE MILKEN INSTITUTE — $70,769,065 · OtherTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE+12 more — $7,751,521 · Other+12 moreFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC — $7,924,599 · HealthFOUNTAIN HOUSE IN…Children's Hospital Corporation — $3,414,207 · HealthChildren's Hospit…Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $2,000,032 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lu…MAYO CLINIC — $1,015,567 · HealthMAYO CLINICTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP — $1,010,000 · HealthTHE JOSSELYN CENT…+4 more — $470,000 · HealthPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $7,009,008 · EducationGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $900,018 · Arts & CulturePodium Society Inc — $250,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$78,520,586Health$15,834,405Education$7,009,008Arts & Culture$1,150,018

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE — $70,769,065 over 4y, 10% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC — $7,924,599 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $7,009,008 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $3,414,207 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $2,000,032 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $1,015,567 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP — $1,010,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $900,018 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS — $839,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc — $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPodium Society Inc — $250,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION — $150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI National — $115,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRush University Medical Center — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE MILKEN INSTITUTE
  • Who funds FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation
  • Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC
  • Who funds THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP
  • Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS
  • Who funds The Broad Institute Inc
  • Who funds Podium Society Inc
  • Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION
  • Who funds NAMI National
  • Who funds Rush University Medical Center
  • Who funds MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH LDRSHP ALLIANCE
  • Who funds POSTPARTUM SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Dauten Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 19%
  • Postpartum Support International43% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc19% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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