Illinois · Private foundation
The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $516k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 59
- Grants FY2025
- 71
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 57 to 84
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k 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 | 59 | $516k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 71 | $542k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 66 | $512k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 84 | $512k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 69 | $430k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 74 | $430k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 77 | $402k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 57 | $374k | 26% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Window to the World Communications Inc | $352,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Benedictine Sisters of Chicago | $214,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Pepperdine University | $139,000 | 9 | 0% |
| University of Denver | $106,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Touched by an Animal | $105,000 | 9 | 8% |
| Givedirectly Inc | $103,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chicago Headline Club Foundation | $102,329 | 7 | 38% |
| The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education | $98,000 | 8 | 2% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $81,940 | 9 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $68,350 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 106 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 73 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 87 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 · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Lilly Endowment Inc · Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl Foundation · Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation · Tawani Charitable Distribution Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Northwestern University
How this is measured
Compare The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation with peer funders
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About The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation
- How much does The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation give?
- The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation reported 59 grants totaling $515,835 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 84 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (31%), Animals (18%), Education (14%).
- Who are The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Window to the World Communications Inc ($352k), Benedictine Sisters of Chicago ($214k), Pepperdine University ($139k).
- Does The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, Robert R McCormick Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation based?
- The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation is based in IL.
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