· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MATER DEI FOUNDATION | $24,258 |
| ALL SAINTS ACADEMY | $7,260 |
| HOLY GARDEN OF PRAYER CHURCH | $5,000 |
| CCYC & WJBD MARION COUNTY CO ADOPT A FAMILY | $5,000 |
| TOYS FOR JOY GREENVILLE | $5,000 |
| THE CARING COMMUNITY GROUP CHRISTMAS DRIVE | $5,000 |
| MATTHEW 25 ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| JARED BURKE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| ALTON MEMORIAL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| LEWIS & CLARK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| OPERATION GIVING BACK BOHOL | $1,000 |
| CLINTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| NINE NETWORK OF PUBLIC MEDIA | $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 (FY24–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 97% of Michael Donnewald Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 85% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 1%.
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 +9% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LCLEWIS & CLARK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY4× · 2022–2025 · $9k · revenue +69%
- AMALTON MEMORIAL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue +152%
- SLST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +255%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
- KAKENSLEY AND WILL PRANTE TRUSTone grant, 2024 · $10k
- CHCITY HOPE CHURCH INCone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
Community shares of illinois represents a diverse group of charitites with a common mission, to make our world a better place. whether your passion is women's issues, protecting children, helping animals, promoting health care or curbing…
Provide mentoring services to at-risk children in central il
To provide support to realtors and those afffiliated with real estate sales. to facilitate membership in the national association of realtors, to provide a safe, secure way for members of the public to provide access to homes and…
Delta dental of illinois foundation was formed to improve the overall health and well-being of the people in illinois through education and access to quality healthcare.
Founded in 1883, brightpoint (formerly known as children's home & aid) is a leading statewide organization supporting families so children can thrive.
The greater bloomington chamber of commerce provides leadership through member engagement, business advocacy and civic partnerships to strengthen our community and business environment.
We serve the public by providing educational scholarships to graduating illinois high school seniors.
Provide support to children's home & aid society of illinois, dba: brightpoint. brightpoint serves over 37,000 illinois families annually with early learning, child welfare, and mental health.
To help children reach their full potential through life-changing, professionally supported, one-to-one mentoring relationships.
CA/I organizes, advocates and builds coalitions to win support for progressive policies that improve the lives of all Illinoisans.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 36 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 MATER DEI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BCMW COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LEWIS & CLARK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALTON MEMORIAL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds DARE AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CLINTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Leaps of Love Inc ↗
- Who funds GREEN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Michael Donnewald Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael Donnewald Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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