· Private foundation
Harvey and Ethel Daeumer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| SENIOR SERVICES ASSOCIATES | $11,000 |
| FOX VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACTION | $11,000 |
| ECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $11,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| EASTER SEALS OF DUPAGE AND FOX VALLEY | $10,000 |
| KANE SENIOR COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE | $10,000 |
| ROTARY CHARITABLE PROJECTS FOUNDATION OF ELGIN | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Harvey and Ethel Daeumer Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +73% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- AFASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +71%
- RFROTARY FOUNDATION OF ELGINone grant, 2020 · $5k
- FVFOX VALLEY HANDS OF HOPE INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +19%
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.
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.
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 39 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 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 Fox Valley Pregnancy Center ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harvey and Ethel Daeumer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harvey and Ethel Daeumer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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