How much does Depaul University give?

Depaul University reported 32 itemized grants totaling $3,152,228, out of $352,961,044 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Depaul University fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (47%), Religion (24%), Health (12%).

Who are Depaul University's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Vincent de Paul Church ($2.3M), Academy for Urban School Leadership ($1.9M), Congregation of the Mission Midwest Province ($1.8M).

Does Depaul University fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Depaul University?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Robert R McCormick Foundation.

Where is Depaul University based?

Depaul University is based in IL.

Depaul University

Depaul University at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Depaul University

As an innovative catholic, vincentian university anchored in the global city of chicago, depaul supports the integral human development of its students.

$353M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$639k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$8.8MReligion$4.4MHealth$2.3MScience & Tech$1.1MRecreation & Sports$797kArts & Culture$493kCommunity Improvement$166kPublic Benefit$120kOther$0

02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 32 grants below total $3,152,228, the rows itemized in this filing. The $352,961,044 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $349,808,816 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $21k
$10k–50k16 grants · $365k
$50k–250k9 grants · $1.3M
$250k+4 grants · $1.4M

$36,246

Median grant

States reached

$2.0B

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP	$639,044
ST VINCENT DE PAUL CHURCH	$274,233
ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL	$261,187
CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS	$251,200
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO	$206,133
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	$193,338
SRI INTERNATIONAL	$172,901
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION	$165,421
RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER	$159,779
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO	$138,353
BAYESICS LLC	$116,633
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY	$97,508
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY	$90,535
SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM	$47,106
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY	$44,582

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–22, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

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

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$17M · 57 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$17M

$853k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

+16%

Still filing today

61%

75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $591k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentSocial ScienceOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

AF
ACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP
3× · 2023–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +2%
RU
Rush University Medical Center
5× · 2020–2025 · $928k · revenue +30%
University of Chicago
7× · 2017–2024 · $821k · revenue +56%

Funded once

PE
PROJECT EXPLORATIONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $161k · revenue +56%
CP
CHICAGO PARK DISTRICT
one grant, 2022 · $150k
BT
BIG THOUGHTgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $80k · revenue +33%

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.

04Its field

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.

Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education

Saint Xavier University

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…

Education

Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

Achieving international impact through world-class research and education in fundamental computer science and information technology.

Education

University of New Haven

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…

Education

Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education

Roosevelt University

Roosevelt university is an independent, non-profit, metropolitan university and national leader in educating socially conscious citizens for active and dedicated lives as leaders in their professions and their communities. the university's…

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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

Illinois Institute of Technology

To provide distinctive and relevant education in an environment of scientific, technological, and professional knowledge creation and innovation.

Education

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

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is After School Matters Inc; the most unlike its peers is Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame. 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

70 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. 70 of the 102 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

69/70

Grantees still filing

48/70

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$10,411,139Education$4,321,822Health$1,886,730Recreation & Sports$566,310Science & Tech$480,883Arts & Culture$463,120Social Science$442,529

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.

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.

John D and Catherine T Macarthur FoundationIL30.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Pritzker Traubert Foundation · Cme Group Foundation · Northwestern University

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Depaul University funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Depaul University. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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