· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $196k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC | $42,000 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $22,000 |
| CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $22,000 |
| ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $22,000 |
| LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO | $22,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| THE GOODMAN THEATRE | $12,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $12,000 |
| HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO | $12,000 |
| EPWORTH CHURCH ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TATHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO6× · 2019–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +23%
- CSChicago Symphony Orchestra6× · 2019–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +75%
- MOMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART6× · 2019–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +12%
Funded once
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.
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University ("The Auditorium"), an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, is committed to presenting the finest in international, cultural, community and educational programming to Chicago and to the…
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Ballet Chicago is a professional track school of ballet that creates exceptional dancers. It makes classical ballet training accessible to all. Its founders Daniel Duell and Patricia Blair carry on George Balanchines legacy by providing…
To create vivid, entertaining theatrical experiences that invigorate and engage people of all ages and identities by illuminating the complexity, ambiguity, and wonder of our world. shared humanity and unforgettable stories - now this is…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 13 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 OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nancy a Lauter & Alfred L McDougal Charitable funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nancy a Lauter & Alfred L McDougal Charitable. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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