Illinois · Private foundation
Michael Donnewald 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.
- $73k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 65%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $24,258
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 17
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 65% of the organizations Michael Donnewald Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 89% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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 | 19 | $72k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $80k | 65% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $45k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $46k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 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, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mater Dei Foundation Inc | $24,258 | 1 | 8% |
| Bcmw Community Services Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lewis & Clark Habitat for Humanity | $9,000 | 4 | 1% |
| City Hope Church Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alton Memorial Health Services Foundation | $4,500 | 2 | 0% |
| St Louis Regional Public Media Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Dare America | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Clinton County Humane Society | $3,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Leaps of Love Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Green America | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mater Dei Foundation Inc | $24,258 | 1 | 8% |
| Bcmw Community Services Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lewis & Clark Habitat for Humanity | $9,000 | 4 | 1% |
| City Hope Church Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alton Memorial Health Services Foundation | $4,500 | 2 | 0% |
| St Louis Regional Public Media Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Dare America | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Clinton County Humane Society | $3,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Leaps of Love Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Green America | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwestern Illinois | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mater Dei High School | $500 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($163k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Michael Donnewald 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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Michael Donnewald Foundation
- How much does Michael Donnewald Foundation give?
- Michael Donnewald Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $73,018 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 17 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Michael Donnewald Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Human Services (12%), Community Improvement (11%).
- Who are Michael Donnewald Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Mater Dei Foundation Inc ($24k), Bcmw Community Services Inc ($20k), Lewis & Clark Habitat for Humanity ($9k).
- Does Michael Donnewald Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Michael Donnewald Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Michael Donnewald Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Michael Donnewald Foundation based?
- Michael Donnewald Foundation is based in IL.
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