Illinois · Private foundation
Tawani Charitable Distribution Fund
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.
- $9.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 119
- Grants FY2024
- 103
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $24,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,553,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 90 to 124
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 16
- Total assets, FY2024
- $117M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Tawani Charitable Distribution Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $744k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 112 | $9.2M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 103 | $8.4M | 18% |
| FY2022 | 119 | $8.3M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 120 | $8.8M | 28% |
| FY2020 | 124 | $8.6M | 45% |
| FY2019 | 97 | $10M | 45% |
| FY2018 | 90 | $10M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
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, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norwich University | $7,769,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Lincoln Park Zoological Society | $7,600,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Seti Institute | $3,975,122 | 7 | 3% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $3,356,600 | 6 | 1% |
| Loyola University of Chicago | $3,176,029 | 5 | 0% |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $2,442,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $2,125,000 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $1,902,262 | 5 | 0% |
| Pritzker Military Foundation | $1,751,323 | 4 | 19% |
| Unity Temple Restoration Foundation | $1,500,000 | 5 | 78% |
Show all 224 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 82 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Tawani Charitable Distribution Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 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: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Alphawood Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Tawani Charitable Distribution Fund with peer funders
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About Tawani Charitable Distribution Fund
- How much does Tawani Charitable Distribution Fund give?
- Tawani Charitable Distribution Fund reported 119 grants totaling $9,552,840 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 90 and 124 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Tawani Charitable Distribution Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (28%), Arts & Culture (16%), Animals (15%).
- Who are Tawani Charitable Distribution Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Norwich University ($7.8M), Lincoln Park Zoological Society ($7.6M), Seti Institute ($4.0M).
- Does Tawani Charitable Distribution Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tawani Charitable Distribution Fund 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 Tawani Charitable Distribution Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Lloyd a Fry Foundation.
- Where is Tawani Charitable Distribution Fund based?
- Tawani Charitable Distribution Fund is based in IL.
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