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Debicki 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.

$965k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
31
Grants FY2024
32
Organizations funded FY2023
9%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
27 to 32
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$12M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Debicki Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving31$965k6%
FY202332$955k9%
FY202229$920k7%
FY202129$895k10%
FY202027$800kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$2.3MHuman Services$933kInternational$610kReligion$370kEducation$185kAnimals$50kEmployment$25kPhilanthropy$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
IL
NY
CA
CO
VA
MD
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Second Sense$500,000511%
Mission of Our Lady of Mercy$370,0005n/a
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago$370,00050%
The Salvation Army$310,0005n/a
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago$270,00050%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$270,00050%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$250,00050%
Have Dreams$230,00053%
Avenues to Independence$215,40051%
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc$170,00050%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($533k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Debicki Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSecond Sense: $500,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $370,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago: $270,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $270,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHave Dreams: $230,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetAvenues to Independence: $215,400 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $170,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Eye Foundation: $170,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $145,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDepaul University: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKeshet: $85,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGuide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $58,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHonor Flight Chicago Corp: $50,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetThe Wild Animal Sanctuary: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Brenen Hornstein Autism Research & Education Foundation: $29,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetAspiritech Nfp: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOrdinary Towards Extraordinary Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetLadder Up (F/K/A City-Wide Tax Assistance Program): $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSpecial Children's Charities: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDisabilityin: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDisability Lead: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCpa Endowment Fund of Illinois: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

AbbVie FoundationIL15.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Debicki Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Debicki Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Debicki Foundation

How much does Debicki Foundation give?
Debicki Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $965,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Debicki Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (51%), Human Services (21%), International (13%).
Who are Debicki Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Second Sense ($500k), Mission of Our Lady of Mercy ($370k), Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ($370k).
Does Debicki Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Debicki 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 Debicki Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, Motorola Solutions Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
Where is Debicki Foundation based?
Debicki Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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