· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k9 grants · $219k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $293k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CURIOSITY 2 CREATE | $293,241 |
| SHEPHERDS COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| MASON S VOICE INC | $50,000 |
| YMCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $35,000 |
| LITTLE FRIENDS INC | $30,300 |
| CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (PEGGY NOTEBEART NATURE MUSEUM) | $30,000 |
| BRIDGE COMMUNITIES | $30,000 |
| CHILD'S VOICE | $28,333 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB CHICAGO | $25,000 |
| LEWIS UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| SPARKFORCE THE FMA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ELGIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $399k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CECREATIVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $3.1M · revenue +23%
Northwestern University2× · 2017–2018 · $890k · revenue +41%- LFLITTLE FRIENDS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $148k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- OHOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $1.4M
- DFDRISKILL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $985k · 77% of their budget
- ARANN & ROBERT LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2021 · $303k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
Steadfast in jesus christ as revealed in the holy scriptures, concordia university chicago promotes academic rigor in its liberal arts and professional programs; grounds students in objective truth, integrity, and excellence; and practices…
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The operation of a children's museum.
How this is measured
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 61 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CREATIVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DRISKILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD'S VOICE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Lewis University ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MASONS VOICE INC ↗
- Who funds The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds SHORE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO LIGHTS ↗
- Who funds THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 360 YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds DUPAGE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ELGIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ELMHURST ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Edward Foundation ↗
- Who funds INDIAN PRAIRIE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Walter S & Lucienne B Driskill Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Walter S & Lucienne B Driskill Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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