Illinois · Private foundation
Thomas a Demetrio 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.
- $99k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $61,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $48k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Thomas a Demetrio Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% 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 | 7 | $99k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $126k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $92k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $58k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $22k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $8k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $82k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $51k | 63% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawyer Lend-A-Hand to Youth | $116,000 | 4 | 17% |
| Center for Disability & Elder Law Inc | $91,500 | 6 | 2% |
| The Chicago Bar Foundation | $60,800 | 7 | 0% |
| Big Shoulders Fund | $51,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Panhellenic Scholarship Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Misericordia Foundation | $27,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The 100 Club of Illinois | $25,000 | 3 | 1% |
| International Documentary Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Hellenic Bar Association Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 4% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($89k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Thomas a Demetrio Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 Chicago Community Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Sunshine Charitable Foundation · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good
How this is measured
About Thomas a Demetrio Foundation
- How much does Thomas a Demetrio Foundation give?
- Thomas a Demetrio Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $99,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Thomas a Demetrio Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (33%), Human Services (32%), Education (16%).
- Who are Thomas a Demetrio Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lawyer Lend-A-Hand to Youth ($116k), Center for Disability & Elder Law Inc ($92k), The Chicago Bar Foundation ($61k).
- Does Thomas a Demetrio Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thomas a Demetrio 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 Thomas a Demetrio Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Baird Foundation Inc, AbbVie Foundation.
- Where is Thomas a Demetrio Foundation based?
- Thomas a Demetrio Foundation is based in IL.
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