Illinois · Private foundation
Dunham Fund
Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.7M
- Granted FY2020
- 54
- Grants FY2020
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2020
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2020
- Median grant, FY2020
- $29,062
- Largest grant, FY2020
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 48 to 68
- FY2017 to FY2020
- States reached, FY2020
- 2
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2020, 30% of the organizations Dunham Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $387k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2020 | 54 | $3.7M | 30% |
| FY2019 | 68 | $3.5M | 76% |
| FY2017 | 48 | $4.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paramount Arts Centre | $1,525,000 | 2 | 54% |
| North Central College | $725,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Aurora East Educational Foundation | $552,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Seize the Future Development Foundation | $500,000 | 1 | 20% |
| Quad County Urban League Inc | $383,000 | 3 | 28% |
| Forefront | $369,682 | 3 | 2% |
| Fox Valley United Way | $322,500 | 3 | 17% |
| Advanced Resource Recovery Corporation Nfp | $255,500 | 1 | 98% |
| Marklund Charities | $252,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Rosary High School | $250,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 66 grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dunham Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 51 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: Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Dunham Foundation · The Bersted Foundation · Fox Valley United Way · The Dupage Community Foundation · Inc Mental Health Alliance · The Rich Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Juvenile Protective Association of Aurora Illinois · Naperville Rotary Charities Inc · The Chicago Community Trust
How this is measured
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About Dunham Fund
- How much does Dunham Fund give?
- Dunham Fund reported 54 grants totaling $3,703,800 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 68 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
- What does Dunham Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Education (35%), Arts & Culture (17%), Philanthropy (9%).
- Who are Dunham Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Paramount Arts Centre ($1.5M), North Central College ($725k), Aurora East Educational Foundation ($553k).
- Does Dunham Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2020, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dunham Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dunham Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley, Dunham Foundation, The Bersted Foundation.
- Where is Dunham Fund based?
- Dunham Fund is based in IL.
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