Dolores Kohl Education Foundation
Highland Park, IL · EIN 23-7206116. Reported 103 grants totalling $4,759,079 to 48 recipients across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation told the IRS it does not accept unsolicited requests: it contributes only to organizations it selects itself.
Does this foundation accept applications?
No -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation to check a box if it "only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds". Dolores Kohl Education Foundation checked it on its most recent filing, as 78% of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered did. An unsolicited request is unlikely to go anywhere.
Organizations it funds that make grants of their own
3 of the organizations Dolores Kohl Education Foundation funded make grants themselves, and it reported 11 grants totalling $462,412 to them. That is 26% of the $1,783,158 of its giving we could match to a registered organization. Each is classified by the IRS as a philanthropy or grantmaking organization, reported grants to at least 25 organizations of its own, and has at least 10 funders behind it.
All of them file Form 990, which never asks whether an organization funds only groups it picks, so there is no answer on record either way.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application to any of them reaches this foundation's money. A private foundation's grant to a community foundation or a federated campaign is often a donor-advised fund or a gift designated for a purpose the foundation chose, and has nothing to do with any open programme the receiving organization runs. Its return's purpose text sometimes names a family fund or a designated purpose, which is the plainest case of money no applicant can reach; where it names none, neither return says which. The list is who this foundation paid that also makes grants. Whether any of them would fund you is a question for its own page.
| Grantmaker | Kind | State | Received | Grants | Years | Last | Only funds organizations it picks? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | federated giving programme | Illinois | $302,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 | Its form does not ask |
| The Chicago Community Trust | community foundation | Illinois | $156,110 | 3 | 3 | 2022 | Its form does not ask |
| Highland Park Community Foundation | community foundation | Illinois | $3,802 | 4 | 4 | 2023 | Its form does not ask |
A floor, not a full list. A grantmaker appears here only where this foundation's return named it clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows, and only where that grantmaker has a page on this site. There may be more. Dollars here are summed by EIN across every spelling on its returns, so a figure can differ from the matching row in the full list below, which groups names as written. And the IRS classification cannot tell a grantmaker from a funders' association or a donor-advised fund sponsor, so a payment to one of these may be dues or an account rather than support for a grants programme.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $2,850. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $20,000; the smallest was $50 and the largest $1,132,710.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dolores Kohl Education Foundation - Race Exhibit | Highland Park, IL | $1,356,171 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Dolores Kohl Education Foundation - Animal Orchestra Exhibit | Highland Park, IL | $937,871 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Kohl Children's Museum of Greater Chicago | Glenview, IL | $660,738 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Dolores Kohl Education Foundation - Van Gogh | Highland Park, IL | $459,246 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Ravinia Festival Association | Highland Park, IL | $441,100 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jewish United Fund Chicago | Chicago, IL | $302,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Chicago Community Trust | Chicago, IL | $156,110 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Dolores Kohl Education Foundation - Story Bus Program | Highland Park, IL | $138,430 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Chicago Humanities Festival | Chicago, IL | $91,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Dolores Kohl Education Foundation - Kohl Education Prize | Highland Park, IL | $37,298 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Northwestern University Bienen School | Evanston, IL | $32,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Lake Forest Country Day School | Lake Forest, IL | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| North Shore Congregation Israel | Glencoe, IL | $27,150 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Start Early | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| North Shore Country Day School | Winnetka, IL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ravinia Women's Board | Highland Park, IL | $7,285 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Music Institute of Chicago | Evanston, IL | $6,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| United States Holocaust Museum | Washington, DC | $6,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Academy for Urban School Leadership | Chicago, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Chicago, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| National Council of Jewish Women | Northbrook, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Highland Park Community Foundation | Highland Park, IL | $3,802 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Merit School of Music | Chicago, IL | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| US Fund for Unicef | New York, NY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Council of Trustees and Alumni | Washington, DC | $2,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Alzheimer's Assocation | Chicago, IL | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Cancer Research Foundation | Chicago, IL | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center | Skokie, IL | $1,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Museum of Contemporary Photography | Chicago, IL | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hedwig Dances | Chicago, IL | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Pilgrim Chamber Players | Highland Park, IL | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Ark | Chicago, IL | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Hpff Fortnightly Club Chicago | Chicago, IL | $650 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Community Partners for Affordable Housing | Highland Park, IL | $500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago | Chicago, IL | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Northmoor Education Foundation | Highland Park, IL | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Northwestern University-Womens Board | Evanston, IL | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Paypal | San Jose, CA | $320 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network | Manhattan Beach, CA | $258 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Highland Park Library | Highland Park, IL | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Highland Park Strings | Highland Park, IL | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Threads of Justice Collective | Gresham, OR | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ruth Page Center for the Arts | Chicago, IL | $150 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Auditorium Theatre | Chicago, IL | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Feeding America | Washington, DC | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Chicago Jewish Day School | Chicago, IL | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Hadley | Winnetka, IL | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Nature Conservancy | Chicago, IL | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
27 of 48 (56%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 62%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one, and this foundation told the IRS it does not.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Dolores Kohl Education Foundation - Animal Orchestra Exhibit
THE ANIMAL ORCHESTRA EXHIBIT WILL USE ANTHROPOMORPHIC ANIMALS TO ENGAGE CHILDREN IN CLASSICAL MUSIC. - Dolores Kohl Education Foundation - Van Gogh
EXPENSES TO DEVELOP THE VAN GOGH ART EXHIBIT THAT WILL TRAVEL TO CHILDRENS MUSEUMS - Dolores Kohl Education Foundation - Story Bus Program
EXPENSES TO RUN MOBIL STORY BUS - Dolores Kohl Education Foundation - Kohl Education Prize
COSTS FOR RECOGNIZING A LEADER IN THE EDUCATION FIELD THAT HELPS BROADCAST THAT LEADERS MESSAGE BOTH LOCALLY & NATIONALLY
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 56 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 30 | $855,206 | $1,500 |
| 2021 | 24 | $1,060,814 | $9,000 |
| 2022 | 23 | $1,632,480 | $8,098 |
| 2023 | 26 | $1,210,579 | $2,250 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
100% of its giving went to organizations in Illinois.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more. Unlike this foundation, none of them is on record as funding only organizations it picks, and each page says what its filings show.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Dolores Kohl Education Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 2070 Green Bay Road Suite 197, Highland Park, IL, 60035. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS.
EIN 23-7206116 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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