Illinois · Private foundation
Dolores Kohl Education 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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2024
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $410,100
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 36
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations Dolores Kohl Education Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 24 | $1.2M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $1.6M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $980k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $799k | 46% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $625k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $1.2M | 32% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $921k | 64% |
| FY2017 | 20 | $678k | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ravinia Festival Association | $1,061,386 | 7 | 1% |
| Kohl Children's Museum of Greater Chicago Inc | $930,435 | 8 | 8% |
| Chicago Humanities Festival | $420,173 | 7 | 3% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $347,600 | 7 | 0% |
| Dolores Kohl Education Foundation | $167,878 | 8 | 10% |
| Writers Theatre Inc | $114,825 | 3 | 1% |
| Lake Forest Country Day School | $65,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $41,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Start Early | $29,950 | 5 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dolores Kohl Education Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jerome H Stone Family Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Irving Harris Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Dolores Kohl Education Foundation
- How much does Dolores Kohl Education Foundation give?
- Dolores Kohl Education Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $1,210,579 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 36 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Dolores Kohl Education Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (83%), Philanthropy (9%), Education (6%).
- Who are Dolores Kohl Education Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Ravinia Festival Association ($1.1M), Kohl Children's Museum of Greater Chicago Inc ($930k), Chicago Humanities Festival ($420k).
- Does Dolores Kohl Education Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dolores Kohl Education 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 Dolores Kohl Education Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Arie and Ida Crown Memorial.
- Where is Dolores Kohl Education Foundation based?
- Dolores Kohl Education Foundation is based in IL.
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