Illinois · Private foundation
Dodson Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $3.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 88
- Grants FY2025
- 80
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $260,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 71 to 80
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 18
- Total assets, FY2025
- $24M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Dodson Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $418k 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 | 85 | $3.3M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 80 | $2.7M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 72 | $2.1M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 75 | $2.1M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 72 | $1.9M | 18% |
| FY2020 | 71 | $1.7M | 15% |
| FY2019 | 76 | $1.5M | 25% |
| FY2018 | 75 | $1.5M | 23% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home of the Mother Inc | $535,000 | 9 | 21% |
| Uw-Stout Foundation and Alumni Association Inc | $500,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation | $460,000 | 9 | 0% |
| St Mary's Food Bank Alliance | $456,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc | $415,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Wilkinson Center | $405,000 | 8 | 3% |
| North Texas Food Bank | $395,000 | 9 | 0% |
| St Colettas of Illinois Foundation | $390,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Indiana University Foundation | $350,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Pelotonia | $345,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 122 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 62 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dodson Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 113 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: Collier Community Foundation Inc · Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Shadow Wood Charitable Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The United Way of Lee County Inc · American Express Foundation · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Carol B Phelon Foundation · The League Club Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Chicago Community Trust
How this is measured
About Dodson Foundation Inc
- How much does Dodson Foundation Inc give?
- Dodson Foundation Inc reported 88 grants totaling $3,310,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 71 and 80 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dodson Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Health (18%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
- Who are Dodson Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Home of the Mother Inc ($535k), Uw-Stout Foundation and Alumni Association Inc ($500k), Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation ($460k).
- Does Dodson Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dodson Foundation Inc 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 Dodson Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Collier Community Foundation Inc, Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc, The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation.
- Where is Dodson Foundation Inc based?
- Dodson Foundation Inc is based in IL.
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