· Private foundation
Elaine Dannheisser Foundation McDermott Will & Schulte
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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $320k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Only Make Believe | $160,000 |
| American Ballroom Theratre DBA Dancing Classrooms | $100,000 |
| National Dance Institute | $60,000 |
| SAY The Stuttering Association for the Young | $30,000 |
| Foundation for Contemporary Arts | $5,000 |
| Chashasma | $3,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +28% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NDNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE7× · 2019–2025 · $405k · revenue +28%
- OMONLY MAKE BELIEVE INC6× · 2019–2025 · $275k · revenue +52%
- SISTUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2019–2023 · $65k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- TJTHE JEWISH MUSEUMone grant, 2024 · $390k · revenue +17%
- TATHE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -63%
- NSNYU Steinhardt School of Culture Educationone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
Teen art salon provides young people open-door, free-of-charge art instruction and materials to establish and advance individual studio practices.
Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.
Amda is committed to providing an unsurpassed performing arts education to a diverse community of creative artists. amda seeks to be both the school and the stage, where students are given the support and the freedom to find their voice…
Move|nyc| is a civic arts and social justice organization committed to cultivating a more diverse and inclusive society through transforming the field of professional dance. more than an arts organization, move|nyc| is a movement for…
The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…
The florence acadamy of art was founed in 1991 by daniel graves (see schedule o for details).
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
Alvin ailey dance foundation's mission is to further the pioneering vision of the choreographer, dancer, and cultural leader alvin ailey by building an extended cultural community which provides dance performances, training and education,…
El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
New york school of the arts, inc. is a school offering courses and specialized workshops in painting, drawing, sculpture,printmaking,art theory and other subjects.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 13 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 NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ONLY MAKE BELIEVE INC ↗
- Who funds Dancing Classrooms Inc ↗
- Who funds STUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds STUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CHASHAMA INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
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 Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Elaine Dannheisser Foundation McDermott Will & Schulte funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elaine Dannheisser Foundation McDermott Will & Schulte. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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