Florida · Private foundation
The Walter S & Lucienne B Driskill 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.
- $612k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $293,241
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The Walter S & Lucienne B Driskill Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 12 | $612k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $427k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $3.5M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $317k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $751k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $412k | 54% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $220k | 53% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $533k | 79% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Education Foundation Inc | $3,065,205 | 2 | 1% |
| Driskill Foundation | $985,050 | 1 | 77% |
| Northwestern University | $889,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Little Friends Inc | $148,300 | 8 | 0% |
| Bridge Communities Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Child's Voice School | $80,933 | 5 | 1% |
| Lewis University | $80,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago | $77,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Masons Voice Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 5% |
| The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago | $70,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Walter S & Lucienne B Driskill Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 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: The Dupage Community Foundation · Dunham Fund · Naperville Rotary Charities Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Tara Foundation · Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare · Exchange Club Charitable Organization · Neil & Ginny Gerald Family Foundation · Tellabs Foundation · Best Walter & Edith Foundation · The a Montgomery Ward Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Walter S & Lucienne B Driskill Foundation
- How much does The Walter S & Lucienne B Driskill Foundation give?
- The Walter S & Lucienne B Driskill Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $611,874 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Walter S & Lucienne B Driskill Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (46%), Health (35%), Youth Development (13%).
- Who are The Walter S & Lucienne B Driskill Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Creative Education Foundation Inc ($3.1M), Driskill Foundation ($985k), Northwestern University ($890k).
- Does The Walter S & Lucienne B Driskill Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Walter S & Lucienne B Driskill 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 Walter S & Lucienne B Driskill Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Dupage Community Foundation, Dunham Fund, Naperville Rotary Charities Inc.
- Where is The Walter S & Lucienne B Driskill Foundation based?
- The Walter S & Lucienne B Driskill Foundation is based in FL.
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