Illinois · Public charity
Mc Dermott Will and Emery Charitable Foundation
To support the efforts and projects of other charitable organizations through distributions of donations and grants
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 55
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $108,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 37
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $592k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Mc Dermott Will and Emery Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $318k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 54 | $1.2M | 43% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $849k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $684k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $546k | 52% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenhill School | $800,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Equal Justice Works | $480,235 | 5 | 1% |
| The Chicago Bar Foundation | $254,400 | 5 | 1% |
| Legal Aid Chicago | $245,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ownership Works Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Human Rights First | $133,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Dkms | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Inc | $102,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Council for Inclusive Capitalism | $100,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Nijc Nfp | $92,500 | 1 | 1% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mc Dermott Will and Emery Charitable 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: The Sidley Austin Foundation · Perkins Coie Foundation · Equal Justice Works · Katten Muchin Rosenman Foundation Inc · The Morrison & Foerster Foundation · The Skadden Foundation · United Way Miami Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Chicago Bar Foundation · The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation · Weil Gotshal & Manges Foundation Inc · Venable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Mc Dermott Will and Emery Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About Mc Dermott Will and Emery Charitable Foundation
- How much does Mc Dermott Will and Emery Charitable Foundation give?
- Mc Dermott Will and Emery Charitable Foundation reported 55 itemized grants totaling $1,164,750, out of $1,396,556 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Mc Dermott Will and Emery Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (46%), Education (20%), Civil Rights (12%).
- Who are Mc Dermott Will and Emery Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Greenhill School ($800k), Equal Justice Works ($480k), The Chicago Bar Foundation ($254k).
- Does Mc Dermott Will and Emery Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mc Dermott Will and Emery Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sidley Austin Foundation, Perkins Coie Foundation, Equal Justice Works.
- Where is Mc Dermott Will and Emery Charitable Foundation based?
- Mc Dermott Will and Emery Charitable Foundation is based in IL.
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