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George E &Betty B Dutton Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$45k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2026
21
Organizations funded FY2025
0%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2026
$7,000
Organizations funded a year
20 to 21
FY2021 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
3
Total assets, FY2026
$2.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 0% of the organizations George E &Betty B Dutton Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving15$45k13%
FY202521$110k0%
FY202421$114k0%
FY202320$103k5%
FY202221$125k10%
FY202120$109kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$130kHuman Services$71kHealth$68kFood & Nutrition$65kPhilanthropy$42kEnvironment$38kYouth Development$35kCrime & Legal$28kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
DeKalb County History Center$98,000618%
Benzie Area Christian Neighbors Inc$42,50061%
Land's Sake Inc$40,50061%
Adventure Works of Dekalb County Inc$38,50062%
Safe Passage Inc$30,00060%
Hope Haven Inc$28,5006n/a
CASA DeKalb County Inc$28,00061%
Kishwaukee College Foundation$28,00060%
Opportunity House Inc$28,00060%
Dekalb County Community Gardens$25,00050%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($82k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget George E &Betty B Dutton Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDeKalb County History Center: $98,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetBenzie Area Christian Neighbors Inc: $42,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetLand's Sake Inc: $40,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetAdventure Works of Dekalb County Inc: $38,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetSafe Passage Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCASA DeKalb County Inc: $28,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetKishwaukee College Foundation: $28,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetOpportunity House Inc: $28,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDekalb County Community Gardens: $25,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetDelta Gamma Anchor Center for Blind Children: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCongregational Summer Assembly: $22,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetVoluntary Action Center of Northern Illinois: $18,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKishwaukee Family YMCA: $18,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFamily Service Agency of Dekalb County Inc: $18,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHeroes in Transition Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetKishwaukee Symphony Orchestra: $12,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetPay It Forward House Nfp: $11,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budget

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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 17.

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.

Northwestern Memorial HealthCare GroupIL32.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Ideal Industries Foundation · Dekalb County Community Foundation · Sycamore Charities Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Douglas C & Lynn M Roberts Family Foundation · Horizons Unlimited Foundation · Kishwaukee United Way · The Bersted Foundation · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Nebraska Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 George E &Betty B Dutton Foundation

How much does George E &Betty B Dutton Foundation give?
George E &Betty B Dutton Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $45,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 21 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
What does George E &Betty B Dutton Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (22%), Human Services (12%), Health (12%).
Who are George E &Betty B Dutton Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: DeKalb County History Center ($98k), Benzie Area Christian Neighbors Inc ($43k), Land's Sake Inc ($41k).
Does George E &Betty B Dutton Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does George E &Betty B Dutton 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 George E &Betty B Dutton Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group, Ideal Industries Foundation, Dekalb County Community Foundation.
Where is George E &Betty B Dutton Foundation based?
George E &Betty B Dutton Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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