· Private foundation
Dolan Family Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| CHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| MISERICORDIA | $10,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| FRANCIS XAVIER CHURCH | $7,000 |
| TUNNEL 2 TOWERS | $6,000 |
| FENWICK HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $5,000 |
| MULLIGANEERS | $4,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $4,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
45 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Michigan5× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +139%
- RHREDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +7%
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH6× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +250%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF PENN MEDICINEone grant, 2024 · $10k
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue +16%- TATHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -34%
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.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
As a leading charitable foundation and healthcare advocacy organization, the pan foundation is dedicated to accelerating access to treatment for those who need it most and empowering patients on their healthcare journeys. we provide…
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
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…
The primary purpose of the chicago home for incurables, ("the home"), is to provide financial support to the university of chicago for the operation of patient care facilities and funding of research of incurable diseases at the university…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 60 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
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 University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MULLIGANEERS INC ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENTFIELD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SPECIALTY CARE FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds Maryville Academy ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds THE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Nager and Miller Syndrome ↗
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 · AbbVie Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Greater Chicago Food Depository · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Baird Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dolan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dolan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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