DuPage Foundation is pleased to announce the recent awarding of more than $110,000 to 10 local nonprofits from its Capacity Building grant program. Awarded grants support nonprofits in growing their internal capacity via technology upgrades and other critical infrastructure improvements.
“To date, DuPage Foundation has awarded more than $200,000 through our Capacity Building grant program’s first two cycles,” said Barb Szczepaniak, DuPage Foundation vice president for programs. “These investments help strengthen the backbone of our nonprofit sector and deepen its impact across the region.”
2025 Capacity Building grant recipients include:
- B.R. Ryall YMCA: $3,588 – to pilot Instrumentl, an all-in-one grant platform that finds relevant grant opportunities in minutes, tracks deadlines, and streamlines collaboration with a centralized calendar, tasks, and smart matching tools.
- DuPage Children’s Museum: $10,000 – to support server updates that will use virtual cloud storage infrastructure, significantly improving everyday operations.
- DuPage Health Coalition: $20,000 – to support research and implementation of an integrated client management system.
- DuPage Symphony Orchestra: $8,250 – to upgrade patron and donor database software to streamline operations, reduce administrative inefficiencies, and jumpstart a data-driven development approach to foster long-term sustainability.
- Green Halo Scholars: $20,000 – to support a fundraising plan and donor-focused website redesign that will increase capacity to expand the program to additional schools and serve more low-income, first-generation DuPage County students interested in going to college.
- HOPE Fair Housing: $7,000 – to establish a cloud-based network and collaboration tools, enhance security, enable mobile access, and implement compliance tools for preserving files in discrimination cases.
- Loaves & Fishes Community Services*: $12,000 – to support the implementation of a cloud-based inventory management system, improving inventory accuracy, efficiency, and data tracking to strengthen food distribution across the hub & spoke network.
- Northeast DuPage Family and Youth Services: $8,500 – to purchase and implement the Bloomerang Giving Platform to improve donor management, streamline communications, and build fundraising capacity to support long-term growth and sustainability.
- Senior Home Sharing: $14,380 – to support a consultant and the purchase of new software to develop effective fundraising strategies and structures for cultivating deeper donor relationships and increased giving for sustainable program expansion.
- The Conservation Foundation*: $6,568 – to support the advancement team with software for a capital campaign and beyond for better and more efficient data analysis, decision-making, and stakeholder communication.
To learn more about DuPage Foundation’s Capacity Building grant program, visit dupagefoundation.org.
*Partially funded by the Lorelei Foundation.
