Illinois · Public charity
Million Dollar Round Table Foundation
The mdrt foundation gives to charitable organizations worldwide, demonstrating the generosity, service, and impact of mdrt members.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $910k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $275,953
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 40
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 22
- Total assets, FY2025
- $39M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations Million Dollar Round Table Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $491k 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 | 42 | $897k | 48% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $737k | 48% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $724k | 57% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $640k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $317k | 71% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $823k | 83% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $720k | 84% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $567k | 86% |
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Exodus Road Inc | $295,702 | 3 | 11% |
| Letters to Strangers | $288,470 | 1 | 78% |
| Seva Foundation | $275,953 | 1 | 3% |
| The Global Hunger Project | $200,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education | $185,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Give Kids the World Inc | $184,612 | 1 | n/a |
| All Hands and Hearts Smart Response Inc | $159,677 | 1 | 1% |
| Hawaii Institute of Pacific Agriculture | $117,905 | 1 | n/a |
| Clean the World Foundation Inc | $108,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Oregon State University Foundation | $100,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 208 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($13k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Million Dollar Round Table Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 169 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Globalgiving Foundation Inc · Equitable Foundation Inc · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · American Express Foundation · The a Montgomery Ward Foundation · Sbb Research Group Foundation · The Service Club of Chicago · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Mondelez International Foundation
How this is measured
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About Million Dollar Round Table Foundation
- How much does Million Dollar Round Table Foundation give?
- Million Dollar Round Table Foundation reported 43 itemized grants totaling $909,938, out of $2,132,051 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Million Dollar Round Table Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (32%), International (18%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Million Dollar Round Table Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Exodus Road Inc ($296k), Letters to Strangers ($288k), Seva Foundation ($276k).
- Does Million Dollar Round Table Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Million Dollar Round Table Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Globalgiving Foundation Inc, Equitable Foundation Inc, George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities.
- Where is Million Dollar Round Table Foundation based?
- Million Dollar Round Table Foundation is based in IL.
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