How much does The McDermott Foundation give?

The McDermott Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $35,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 28 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does The McDermott Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (25%), Arts & Culture (21%), Health (19%).

Who are The McDermott Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Kenilworth Union Church ($68k), Rush University Medical Center ($27k), Chicago Symphony Orchestra ($20k).

Does The McDermott Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The McDermott 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 McDermott Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, American Endowment Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.

Where is The McDermott Foundation based?

The McDermott Foundation is based in IL.

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The McDermott 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.

$36k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 14
Grants FY2025: 17
Organizations funded FY2024: 18%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $1,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $15,000
Organizations funded a year: 16 to 28; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 8
Total assets, FY2025: $264k
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations The McDermott Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHealthAnimalsEnvironmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	12	$34k	0%
FY2024	17	$27k	18%
FY2023	16	$27k	13%
FY2022	18	$24k	28%
FY2021	23	$35k	22%
FY2020	28	$111k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$69kArts & Culture$57kHealth$54kEducation$41kPhilanthropy$19kHuman Services$9kEnvironment$5kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0

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
Kenilworth Union Church	$68,000	6	n/a
Rush University Medical Center	$27,000	6	0%
Chicago Symphony Orchestra	$20,000	4	0%
Wake Forest University	$12,000	4	0%
Lyric Opera of Chicago	$10,000	5	0%
The Salvation Army	$7,000	3	n/a
Sun Valley Summer Symphony Inc	$6,000	2	0%
Washington State University	$6,000	6	n/a
University of Chicago	$5,500	4	0%
Window to the World Communications Inc	$5,000	1	0%

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All grantees of The McDermott Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Kenilworth Union Church	$68,000	6	n/a
Rush University Medical Center	$27,000	6	0%
Chicago Symphony Orchestra	$20,000	4	0%
Wake Forest University	$12,000	4	0%
Lyric Opera of Chicago	$10,000	5	0%
The Salvation Army	$7,000	3	n/a
Sun Valley Summer Symphony Inc	$6,000	2	0%
Washington State University	$6,000	6	n/a
University of Chicago	$5,500	4	0%
Window to the World Communications Inc	$5,000	1	0%
The Art Institute of Chicago	$5,000	5	0%
Sun Valley Writers' Conference Inc	$4,800	1	0%
DePauw University	$3,500	5	0%
Bucknell University	$3,500	4	0%
Northwestern University	$3,000	3	0%
Openlands	$2,500	4	0%
Hawaii Public Radio	$2,500	5	0%
Pitch Your Peers Inc	$2,250	2	n/a
The Winnetka Public Schools Foundation	$1,500	3	1%
Georgia Institute of Technology	$1,500	3	n/a
Winnetka Community House Inc	$1,500	3	0%
Chicago Horticultural Society	$1,200	4	0%
Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired	$1,000	1	0%
Shedd Aquarium Society	$1,000	1	0%
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation	$1,000	1	0%
Northlight Theatre Inc	$500	1	0%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc	$500	1	0%
World Wildlife Fund Inc	$100	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($53k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The McDermott Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL12.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The McDermott Foundation

How much does The McDermott Foundation give?: The McDermott Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $35,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 28 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The McDermott Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (25%), Arts & Culture (21%), Health (19%).
Who are The McDermott Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Kenilworth Union Church ($68k), Rush University Medical Center ($27k), Chicago Symphony Orchestra ($20k).
Does The McDermott Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The McDermott 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 McDermott Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, American Endowment Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is The McDermott Foundation based?: The McDermott Foundation is based in IL.