Illinois · Private foundation
The Dover 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.
- $2.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,819,580
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,819,580
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 53
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $53k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Dover Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $2.8M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $1.1M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $150k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $1.9M | 67% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $1.3M | 63% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| CMS Foundation Inc | $6,599,348 | 6 | 76% |
| Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry | $950,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Shedd Aquarium Society | $280,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $160,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chicago Public Media Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chicago Shakespeare Theater | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Dupage Children's Museum | $80,000 | 1 | 3% |
| United Service Organizations of Illinois Inc | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Indo American Community Services | $15,000 | 2 | 20% |
| Junior Achievement of Chicago | $13,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 78 grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($19k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Dover Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 65 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Dolores Kohl Education Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group
How this is measured
About The Dover Foundation
- How much does The Dover Foundation give?
- The Dover Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $2,819,580 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 53 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Dover Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (78%), Science & Tech (11%), Arts & Culture (4%).
- Who are The Dover Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: CMS Foundation Inc ($6.6M), Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ($950k), Shedd Aquarium Society ($280k).
- Does The Dover Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Dover 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 The Dover Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Robert R McCormick Foundation.
- Where is The Dover Foundation based?
- The Dover Foundation is based in IL.
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