Illinois · Private foundation
Dillon Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 134
- Grants FY2025
- 147
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $867,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 136 to 154
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $79M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Dillon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $879k 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 | 133 | $3.6M | 5% |
| FY2024 | 147 | $3.4M | 12% |
| FY2023 | 136 | $2.9M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 141 | $2.7M | 9% |
| FY2021 | 140 | $3.1M | 4% |
| FY2020 | 139 | $3.1M | 7% |
| FY2019 | 141 | $3.2M | 8% |
| FY2018 | 154 | $3.3M | 10% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Sterling Development Corporation | $3,163,314 | 9 | 74% |
| United Way of Whiteside County | $1,609,850 | 9 | 28% |
| Sterling Riverfront Foundation | $1,205,000 | 2 | 85% |
| Sterling Schools Foundation | $919,703 | 9 | 18% |
| Woodlawn Arts Academy | $869,223 | 4 | 31% |
| Sauk Valley Community College | $819,775 | 9 | n/a |
| Sterling-Rock Falls Family YMCA | $558,300 | 9 | 5% |
| Rock River Hospice and Home | $437,850 | 8 | 4% |
| Young Women's Christian Association of the Sauk Valley | $204,455 | 9 | 2% |
| Sauk Valley Foodbank | $198,580 | 9 | 27% |
Show all 116 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 130 recipients with no EIN on record ($15M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dillon Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 97 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of Whiteside County · William & Beverly Burkardt Family Foundation Nfp · Quad Cities Community Foundation · Sterling Rock Falls Community Trust · Kunes Family Foundation · Do It Best Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Northern IL · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · United Way of Lee County Inc · Ralph J Baudhuin Foundation
How this is measured
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About Dillon Foundation
- How much does Dillon Foundation give?
- Dillon Foundation reported 134 grants totaling $3,580,339 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 136 and 154 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dillon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (27%), Education (21%), Arts & Culture (19%).
- Who are Dillon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Greater Sterling Development Corporation ($3.2M), United Way of Whiteside County ($1.6M), Sterling Riverfront Foundation ($1.2M).
- Does Dillon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dillon Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dillon Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Whiteside County, William & Beverly Burkardt Family Foundation Nfp, Quad Cities Community Foundation.
- Where is Dillon Foundation based?
- Dillon Foundation is based in IL.
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