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Nancy a Lauter & Alfred L McDougal Charitable

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$200k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$42,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 11
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$1.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Nancy a Lauter & Alfred L McDougal Charitable funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$200k0%
FY202311$12M0%
FY202211$3.0M0%
FY202111$3.0M9%
FY202011$3.0M9%
FY201911$3.5Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$14MInternational$5.1MEducation$4.4MReligion$1.2M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us$5,115,00366%
The Art Institute of Chicago$2,679,28760%
Chicago Symphony Orchestra$2,679,28762%
Museum of Contemporary Art$2,679,28767%
Lyric Opera of Chicago$2,679,28762%
Yale University$1,465,7162n/a
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago$1,461,429620%
Chicago Theatre Group Inc$1,461,42963%
University of Chicago$1,461,42960%
Yale University$650,0002n/a
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All grantees of Nancy a Lauter & Alfred L McDougal Charitable by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us$5,115,00366%
The Art Institute of Chicago$2,679,28760%
Chicago Symphony Orchestra$2,679,28762%
Museum of Contemporary Art$2,679,28767%
Lyric Opera of Chicago$2,679,28762%
Yale University$1,465,7162n/a
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago$1,461,429620%
Chicago Theatre Group Inc$1,461,42963%
University of Chicago$1,461,42960%
Yale University$650,0002n/a
University of Illinois Foundation$487,14360%
Yale University$320,0002n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Nancy a Lauter & Alfred L McDougal Charitable supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOpportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us: $5,115,003 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetThe Art Institute of Chicago: $2,679,287 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $2,679,287 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetMuseum of Contemporary Art: $2,679,287 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago: $2,679,287 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetHubbard Street Dance Chicago: $1,461,429 over 6y, 20% of budgetChicago Theatre Group Inc: $1,461,429 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $1,461,429 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $487,143 over 6y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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About Nancy a Lauter & Alfred L McDougal Charitable

How much does Nancy a Lauter & Alfred L McDougal Charitable give?
Nancy a Lauter & Alfred L McDougal Charitable reported 11 grants totaling $200,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 11 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Nancy a Lauter & Alfred L McDougal Charitable fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (56%), International (21%), Education (18%).
Who are Nancy a Lauter & Alfred L McDougal Charitable's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us ($5.1M), The Art Institute of Chicago ($2.7M), Chicago Symphony Orchestra ($2.7M).
Does Nancy a Lauter & Alfred L McDougal Charitable fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Nancy a Lauter & Alfred L McDougal Charitable 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.
Where is Nancy a Lauter & Alfred L McDougal Charitable based?
Nancy a Lauter & Alfred L McDougal Charitable is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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