Illinois · Private foundation
John & Susan Dewan Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $278k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $117,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 53
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $936k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations John & Susan Dewan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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 | 28 | $278k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $326k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 50 | $291k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 53 | $332k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $256k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $303k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 48 | $176k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $129k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago Jesuit Academy | $740,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Our Lady of Tepeyac High School | $80,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Spark Ventures | $50,835 | 6 | 2% |
| Josephinum Academy | $45,150 | 1 | n/a |
| Kiwimbi Internationala New Jersey Non Profit Corporation | $38,000 | 6 | 3% |
| New Moms Inc | $36,042 | 6 | 0% |
| Caravan to Class | $35,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Paramedics For Children Inc | $33,100 | 5 | 11% |
| Strategies for International Development | $30,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Un Mundo | $28,000 | 7 | 6% |
Show all 61 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($346k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John & Susan Dewan 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: Helen V Brach Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · WP & HB White Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · All Chicago Making Homelessness History · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Greater Chicago Food Depository · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Patrick and Anna M Cudahy Fund · Reva and David Logan Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation
How this is measured
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About John & Susan Dewan Foundation
- How much does John & Susan Dewan Foundation give?
- John & Susan Dewan Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $277,913 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 53 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does John & Susan Dewan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), International (16%), Housing & Shelter (11%).
- Who are John & Susan Dewan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Chicago Jesuit Academy ($740k), Our Lady of Tepeyac High School ($80k), Spark Ventures ($51k).
- Does John & Susan Dewan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John & Susan Dewan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John & Susan Dewan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Helen V Brach Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, WP & HB White Foundation.
- Where is John & Susan Dewan Foundation based?
- John & Susan Dewan Foundation is based in IL.
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