How much does Dunham Foundation give?

Dunham Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $3,419,443 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 47 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.

What does Dunham Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (16%), Education (16%), Community Improvement (14%).

Who are Dunham Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Quad County Urban League Inc ($1.6M), VNA Health Care ($1.6M), Paramount Arts Centre ($1.1M).

Does Dunham Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Dunham Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Dunham Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley, Dunham Fund, Fox Valley United Way.

Where is Dunham Foundation based?

Dunham Foundation is based in IL.

Foundation Dossiers

Illinois · Private foundation

Dunham Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 45
Grants FY2024: 39
Organizations funded FY2023: 36%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $673,000
Organizations funded a year: 38 to 47; FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $87M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Dunham Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $356k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesInternationalCrime & LegalArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	45	$3.4M	38%
FY2023	39	$3.3M	36%
FY2022	38	$3.6M	53%
FY2021	47	$3.9M	n/a

98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Human Services$2.3MEducation$2.3MCommunity Improvement$2.0MPhilanthropy$1.9MHealth$1.9MArts & Culture$1.3MFood & Nutrition$725kReligion$428kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Quad County Urban League Inc	$1,595,000	4	34%
VNA Health Care	$1,575,000	1	3%
Paramount Arts Centre	$1,061,000	4	66%
The Wong Center for Education	$673,000	1	n/a
Forefront	$589,309	4	2%
Wayside Cross Ministries	$383,150	4	n/a
Women's Business Development Center	$375,000	3	1%
Marmion Academy	$340,000	2	n/a
Rosary High School	$340,000	2	n/a
Mutual Ground Inc	$310,000	4	2%

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All grantees of Dunham Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Quad County Urban League Inc	$1,595,000	4	34%
VNA Health Care	$1,575,000	1	3%
Paramount Arts Centre	$1,061,000	4	66%
The Wong Center for Education	$673,000	1	n/a
Forefront	$589,309	4	2%
Wayside Cross Ministries	$383,150	4	n/a
Women's Business Development Center	$375,000	3	1%
Marmion Academy	$340,000	2	n/a
Rosary High School	$340,000	2	n/a
Mutual Ground Inc	$310,000	4	2%
Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry	$250,000	2	3%
Tricity Family Services	$212,000	3	4%
Fox Valley Patriotic Organization	$204,000	2	38%
Northern Illinois Food Bank	$190,000	3	0%
Metropolitan Family Services	$175,000	1	0%
Casa Kane County	$172,000	2	5%
Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry Inc	$155,000	4	3%
Fox Valley Hands of Hope Inc	$152,000	2	11%
Aurora University	$150,000	2	0%
Individual Advocacy Group Inc	$125,000	1	0%
Batavia Artists Association Nfp Inc Water Street Studios	$119,118	1	20%
Illinois Joining Forces Foundation	$110,000	2	19%
Fox Valley Food for Health Inc	$100,000	3	11%
360 Youth Services	$85,000	2	1%
Suicide Prevention Services Inc	$80,000	2	11%
Marklund Childrens Home	$75,000	1	0%
Batavia Historical Society	$75,000	1	77%
Illinois Action for Children	$75,000	1	0%
Association for Individual Development	$60,000	3	0%
The Neighbor Project	$59,500	4	2%
American Women for International Understanding	$59,000	1	19%
Fox Valley Habitat for Humanity	$56,055	1	4%
Lewis University	$50,000	1	0%
Anderson Animal Shelter	$50,000	1	1%
Advance Illinois Nfp	$50,000	1	2%
North Central College	$50,000	1	0%
Fox Valley Park Foundation	$47,000	4	13%
Agape Connection	$45,000	2	n/a
Valley Sheltered Workshop	$43,900	2	10%
Illinois Bar Foundation	$40,000	2	2%
Diamond Youth Foundation	$34,000	3	12%
Ecumenical Support Services for the Elderly Inc	$30,000	2	3%
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INTERACTIVE CENTER Scitech Fox Valley STEM Programs	$25,200	1	31%
Marie Wilkinson Child Development Center	$25,000	1	31%
Mount Carmel High School	$25,000	1	n/a
Jennings Terrace Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Family Focus Legacy	$25,000	1	1%
Aurora East Educational Foundation	$22,000	3	11%
North Central Illinois Finishing Trades Institute	$20,000	1	1%
Community Support Services Inc	$15,000	3	0%
Elyssas Mission NFP	$13,845	1	2%
Pigment International Foundation	$13,000	3	6%
Changing Children's Worlds Foundation	$12,250	3	2%
The Joshua Tree Community	$10,000	1	5%
Giant Steps Illinois Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Seize the Future Development Foundation	$6,000	1	0%
Sarah's Smile of Illinois	$5,500	2	n/a
Dvsa Communities	$5,000	1	3%
Simply Destinee	$5,000	1	6%
Making Kane County Fit for Kids	$5,000	2	3%
Alive Center Nfp	$5,000	1	0%
Batavia Parks Foundation	$5,000	1	10%
Imperfect Angels Organization	$5,000	1	n/a
No Mo Bars Christian Recovery Home	$2,500	1	n/a
Fox Valley Folklore Society	$2,500	1	n/a
Spectrios Institute for Low Vision	$2,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.5M), not named here.

Dunham Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 56.

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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.

Community Foundation of the Fox River ValleyIL74.9× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Dunham Fund · Fox Valley United Way · The Bersted Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · McGowan Gin Rosica Family Foundation Inc · The Rich Foundation · The Dupage Community Foundation · Juvenile Protective Association of Aurora Illinois · Inc Mental Health Alliance · Hansen-Furnas Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust

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.

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About Dunham Foundation

How much does Dunham Foundation give?: Dunham Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $3,419,443 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 47 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Dunham Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (16%), Education (16%), Community Improvement (14%).
Who are Dunham Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Quad County Urban League Inc ($1.6M), VNA Health Care ($1.6M), Paramount Arts Centre ($1.1M).
Does Dunham Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dunham Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dunham Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley, Dunham Fund, Fox Valley United Way.
Where is Dunham Foundation based?: Dunham Foundation is based in IL.