Illinois · Private foundation
Edward and Rose Donnell 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.
- $250k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 59
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $19,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 44 to 55
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Edward and Rose Donnell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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 | 58 | $250k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $225k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 55 | $235k | 45% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $235k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $230k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc | $51,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $51,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Conservation International Foundation | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Trust for Public Land | $38,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Better Government Association Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $27,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Country Music Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Connections for the Homeless Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Young Mens Christian Assoc McGaw Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 82 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($329k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Edward and Rose Donnell 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.
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How this is measured
Compare Edward and Rose Donnell Foundation with peer funders
About Edward and Rose Donnell Foundation
- How much does Edward and Rose Donnell Foundation give?
- Edward and Rose Donnell Foundation reported 59 grants totaling $250,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 55 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Edward and Rose Donnell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (22%), Health (14%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Edward and Rose Donnell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Chicago Horticultural Society ($75k), Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc ($51k), Greater Chicago Food Depository ($51k).
- Does Edward and Rose Donnell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Edward and Rose Donnell 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 Edward and Rose Donnell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hca Healthcare Foundation, The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation, Memorial Foundation Inc.
- Where is Edward and Rose Donnell Foundation based?
- Edward and Rose Donnell Foundation is based in IL.
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