Illinois · Private foundation
Harvey and Ethel Daeumer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $258k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $29,980
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 24
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Harvey and Ethel Daeumer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 24 | $258k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $230k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $241k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $264k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $231k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $224k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverwoods Christian Center dba Fox Valley Christian Action | $107,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Casa Kane County | $92,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Young Womens Christian Association Elgin Illinois | $72,107 | 6 | 1% |
| Ecker Center for Behavioral Health Inc | $62,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $52,057 | 5 | 0% |
| Senior Services Associates Inc | $47,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired | $41,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Rotary Charitable Projects Foundation of Elgin Illinois 60123 | $40,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Pads of Elgin Inc | $37,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Sharing Connections Inc | $34,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($690k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harvey and Ethel Daeumer 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.
Open a dossier: Efs Foundation · Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · The Bersted Foundation · Grand Victoria Foundation · United Way of Elgin Inc · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Seigle Foundation · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Hoffer Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Harvey and Ethel Daeumer Foundation with peer funders
About Harvey and Ethel Daeumer Foundation
- How much does Harvey and Ethel Daeumer Foundation give?
- Harvey and Ethel Daeumer Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $258,191 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Harvey and Ethel Daeumer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Human Services (20%), Health (19%).
- Who are Harvey and Ethel Daeumer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Riverwoods Christian Center dba Fox Valley Christian Action ($107k), Casa Kane County ($92k), The Young Womens Christian Association Elgin Illinois ($72k).
- Does Harvey and Ethel Daeumer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harvey and Ethel Daeumer Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Harvey and Ethel Daeumer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Efs Foundation, Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley, The Bersted Foundation.
- Where is Harvey and Ethel Daeumer Foundation based?
- Harvey and Ethel Daeumer Foundation is based in IL.
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