· Private foundation
Dean L & Rosemarie Buntrock 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k72 grants · $127k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $246k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $664k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Illinois Policy Institute | $250,000 |
| Immanuel Lutheran Church | $100,000 |
| Horatio Alger Assocation | $100,000 |
| Carmelite Sisters Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles | $100,000 |
| Augustana University | $100,000 |
| Redeemer Lutheran Church | $100,000 |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $60,000 |
| Illinois Wesleyan University | $53,870 |
| University of Northern Iowa | $50,000 |
| Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund | $35,000 |
| Woman's Board Rush University Med | $26,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| The Hoover Institute | $25,000 |
| Sacred Heart School | $25,000 |
| Stavig House Museum Foundation | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $565k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
120 repeat relationships: 78 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $288k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSChicago Symphony Orchestra4× · 2021–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +15%
- MVMARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC2× · 2021–2023 · $550k · revenue +19%
- EMEisenhower Medical Center3× · 2020–2022 · $432k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- LJLIBERTY JUSTICE CENTERone grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +14%
- NLNORA LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $100k
- EMEisenhower Medical Center Foundationone grant, 2022 · $100k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
How this is measured
130 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 130 of the 229 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds BEAVER ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC ↗
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- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MILLENNIUM PARK FOUNDATION ↗
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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: The Chicago Community Trust · The Dupage Community Foundation · Otzen Family Foundation Incorporated · A G Cox Charity Trust Xxxxx9001 · John & Linda Anderson Charitable Foundation · Alben F & Clara G Bates Foundation · The Griffith Family Foundation · The John a Miller Family Foundation · The Anna Emery Hanson Charitable Foundation 1 · The Simms Family Foundation · Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Foundation · Carol Bernick Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dean L & Rosemarie Buntrock Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dean L & Rosemarie Buntrock Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami Inc: 22% of income from government
How this is measured
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