· Private foundation
Mary and Daniel Dolan Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $144k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $154k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKE FOREST COLLEGE | $103,750 |
| SHIRLEY RYAN ABILITYLAB | $50,000 |
| METROSQUASH | $49,000 |
| US SQUASH | $25,000 |
| JAKE OWEN FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| EVANS SCHOLAR FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| VNA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN | $5,000 |
| US OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION | $2,098 |
| NORTH CHICAGO COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $1,500 |
| JESTER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THE DURHAM MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| HSS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +41% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 6 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Lake Forest College8× · 2018–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +73%- RIRehabilitation Institute of Chicago7× · 2018–2025 · $816k · revenue +41%
- VFVNA FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $72k · revenue +105% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- NMNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITALone grant, 2018 · $10k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES INCone grant, 2024 · $10k
- CJCHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMYone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
How this is measured
38 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. 38 of the 63 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.
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- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE DURHAM MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds North Chicago Community Partners ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
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- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
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: Keystone Charitable Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way Worldwide · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mary and Daniel Dolan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary and Daniel Dolan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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