2025 Capacity Building Grant Recipients
Total 2025 Capacity Building Grants: $110,286
- 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 Center: $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
Partially funded by the Lorelei Foundation
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
Partially funded by the Lorelei Foundation
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.