Depaul University
Chicago, IL · EIN 36-2167048. Reported 144 grants totalling $11.5M to 72 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Depaul University, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B430) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 72 distinct organizations, with 17% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 63% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $29,008. Half of what it reported fell between $12,000 and $116,633; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $803,582. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academy for Urban School Leadership | Chicago, IL | $1,918,797 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| St Vincent De Paul Church | Chicago, IL | $1,319,183 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Rush University Medical Center | Chicago, IL | $733,567 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $719,588 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Learning Partnership | Western Springs, IL | $709,686 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Chicago Public Schools | Chicago, IL | $568,263 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Congregation of the Mission Midwest Province | Saint Louis, MO | $522,767 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $436,381 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Sri International | Menlo Park, CA | $418,401 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Loyola University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $363,545 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $363,431 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Bayesics LLC | Bowie, MD | $361,577 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $330,048 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago Foundation | Chicago, IL | $261,187 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Penn State University | State College, PA | $187,942 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc | Athens, GA | $165,421 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Project Exploration | Chicago, IL | $160,575 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chicago Park District | Chicago, IL | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $132,847 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Oregon Research Institute | Springfield, OR | $123,015 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA | $111,908 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Depaul College Prep | Chicago, IL | $100,400 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Catholic Theological Union at Chicago | Chicago, IL | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Maryland | College Park, MD | $90,639 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Depaul USA Inc | Chicago, IL | $90,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Brown University of Providence | Providence, RI | $75,599 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The National Center for Genome Resources | Santa Fe, NM | $62,482 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | $49,312 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sinai Health System | Chicago, IL | $47,106 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dark Enterprises Inc | Lafayette, IN | $44,801 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Illinois Foundation | Champaign, IL | $38,157 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Barat Education Foundation | Chicago, IL | $36,870 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mountain View, CA | $33,350 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Chicago Historical Society | Chicago, IL | $32,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Chicago Academy of Sciences | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Giving Tuesday Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| University of North Carolina | Wilmington, NC | $29,428 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Learning in Retirement of Waukesha County | Waukesha, WI | $28,588 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Indiana University | Bloomington, IN | $28,329 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN | $28,169 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Near South Planning Board | Chicago, IL | $27,950 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Washington State University | Renton, WA | $26,562 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Leadership Greater Chicago Inc | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Trustees of Dartmouth College | Hanover, NH | $24,223 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Witte Travel & Tours | Grand Rapids, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of California | Santa Cruz, CA | $17,958 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Civic Federation | Chicago, IL | $15,700 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Conference Board Inc | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Marquette University | Milwaukee, WI | $14,936 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Arthur Lockhart Resource Institute | Chicago, IL | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Trustees of the Graceland Cemetery Improvement Fund | Chicago, IL | $13,349 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Christ Universal Temple | Chicago, IL | $12,375 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| George Mason University | Fairfax, VA | $12,015 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Academy of Advertising | Key West, FL | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Trustees of Boston University | Boston, MA | $11,210 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Catholic Bishop of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chicago History Museum | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Marywood University | Scranton, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Newberry Library | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Onegoal | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Skills for Chicago | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wake Forest University | Winstonsalem, NC | $9,249 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lincoln Park Chamber of Commerce | Chicago, IL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Marillac St Vincent Family Services Inc | Chicago, IL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mental Health Leadership Initiative Inc | Foxboro, MA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chicago Sculpture Exhibit | Chicago, IL | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Central Washington University Foundation | Ellensburg, WA | $6,638 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Vont LLC | Westbrook, ME | $6,630 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of La Verne | La Verne, CA | $5,063 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago & Northwest Indiana | Chicago, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
32 of 72 (44%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Academy for Urban School Leadership
GENERAL SUPPORT, GRANT SUB-AWARD
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 44 of 72 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 27 | $1,531,376 | $23,000 |
| 2021 | 36 | $2,182,539 | $21,500 |
| 2022 | 21 | $2,107,306 | $70,252 |
| 2023 | 28 | $2,514,768 | $33,451 |
| 2024 | 32 | $3,152,228 | $33,892 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
76% of its giving went to organizations in Illinois. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $29,008 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Illinois.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Depaul University's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 19 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 13 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1 E Jackson Blvd, Chicago, IL, 60604.
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