Illinois · Private foundation
Robert Jensen Dau 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.
- $128k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $51,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Robert Jensen Dau Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 10 | $128k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $125k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $88k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $184k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $135k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $121k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $214k | 60% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $76k | 58% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pen American Center Inc | $306,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $180,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Great Lakes Center for the Arts | $143,198 | 5 | 1% |
| Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice | $88,626 | 5 | 7% |
| Ferris Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Bay View Association of the United Methodist Church | $37,250 | 7 | 0% |
| City Kids to Wilderness Project Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Little Traverse Conservancy Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Culpepper Garden I Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Bridges to Independence | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($281k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert Jensen Dau 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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Arlington Community Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Reinsch Pierce Family Foundation Inc · Act for Alexandria · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
How this is measured
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About Robert Jensen Dau Foundation
- How much does Robert Jensen Dau Foundation give?
- Robert Jensen Dau Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $127,605 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Robert Jensen Dau Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (40%), Environment (17%), Education (13%).
- Who are Robert Jensen Dau Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pen American Center Inc ($306k), Chicago Horticultural Society ($180k), Great Lakes Center for the Arts ($143k).
- Does Robert Jensen Dau Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert Jensen Dau 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 Robert Jensen Dau Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, United Way of the National Capital Area, Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company.
- Where is Robert Jensen Dau Foundation based?
- Robert Jensen Dau Foundation is based in IL.
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