· Private foundation
Harvey and Ethel Daeumer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $204k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARKLUND | $29,980 |
| ST EDWARD HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| ST CATHERINE OF SIENA SCHOOL | $20,093 |
| CASA KANE COUNTY | $20,000 |
| IMMANUAEL LUTHERAN CHURCH AND SCHOOL | $13,000 |
| IMMANUAEL LUTHERAN CHURCH AND SCHOOL | $11,918 |
| FOX VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACTION | $11,000 |
| ECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $11,000 |
| SENIOR SERVICES ASSOCIATES | $11,000 |
| FOX VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACTION | $11,000 |
| EASTER SEALS OF DUPAGE AND FOX VALLEY | $10,000 |
| KANE SENIOR COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE | $10,000 |
| DUNDEE TOWNSHIP ROTARY FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Harvey and Ethel Daeumer Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- RCRiverwoods Christian Center dba Fox Valley Christian Action6× · 2020–2025 · $107k · revenue +152%
- CKCASA KANE COUNTY6× · 2020–2025 · $92k · revenue +7%
- TYThe Young Womens Christian Association Elgin Illinois6× · 2020–2025 · $72k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- RFROTARY FOUNDATION OF ELGINone grant, 2020 · $5k
- AFASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +71%
- FVFOX VALLEY HANDS OF HOPE INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +19%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…
Providing Social Services to Families including Child Care
The provision of holistic emotional and behavioral health services for individuals, families and communities with an emphasis on recovery and optimal functioning.
Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
To help people with developmental disabilities meet life's challenges and reach their highest potential.
Brian's House specializes in the care and treatment of people with disabilities. Brian's House provides a broad range of human services to people with special needs and challenges. The primary goal is to maximize each individual's…
To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses
Caritas family solutions strengthens the social and emotional well-being of individuals and families in order to create healthy relationships, loving homes and strong communities.
Shelter's mission is to end the cycle of child abuse by providing a comprehensive network of support to children, their families, and our community to create safe, health, and nurturing homes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Crisis Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dundee Township Rotary Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Riverwoods Christian Center dba Fox Valley Christian Action ↗
- Who funds CASA KANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds The Young Womens Christian Association Elgin Illinois ↗
- Who funds ECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CHARITABLE PROJECTS FOUNDATION OF ELGIN ILLINOIS 60123 ↗
- Who funds PADS OF ELGIN INC ↗
- Who funds SHARING CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds DUNDEE TOWNSHIP ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE DUNDEE TOWNSHIP ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds Fox Valley Pregnancy Center ↗
- Who funds FOX VALLEY FOOD FOR HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds FOX VALLEY HANDS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Transitional Living Services Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY CONNECTION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Harvey and Ethel Daeumer Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.