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Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation

Foundation· Chicago, Illinois

Foundation, based in Chicago, Illinois, reporting $194M in assets.

Composed from this allocator's classification, location and filed figures.

Assets
$194M
Fund commitments
39
Managers
18
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What may matter next

A pattern DFX replayed against history, using only what was known on each date, points at this record. The rate belongs to the pattern, not to this entity; what already happened is below.

Allocators · Re-upWindow to Sep 2027

Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation

Emerging

Watch for: commits to the successor fund by Sep 2027.

What DFX sees in the record
  • DerivedGaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation holds a fund and the manager's next fund in that series, a fund, is open (fundraising).
  • DerivedNo commitment to the new fund appears on the plan's filings yet.
Why it matters

This allocator committed to the prior fund of a series that now has a successor fund. Existing LPs are the first calls in any raise, so this is the re-up list for the GP, and for a competing GP it shows whose capital may be in play.

Who this is for

GPs raising a successor fund, placement agents, and competing GPs in the same strategy.

Can you reach them

No decision maker identified yet.

Read with care: the rate belongs to the pattern, not to this one; it is not a forecast.

How the pattern measured, and every other entity on it: re-up prospects.

Nothing material in the last 90 days. Last change: 27 Dec 2024, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation holds G2VP II LLC; the manager is raising: G2vp III, LP (fundraising, Form D first sale 2024-12-27); no commitment to it on the graph.

15 more managers and 36 more commitments

Every figure, date and source on this page is shown. The names behind them, and every related record, open with the complete profile.

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People to know

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  • Arnold Randall
    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & ASST. SECRETARY
    Why: Executive director: runs the plan or the office
    No route on file yet
  • Joel David Farren
    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & ASST. SECRETARY
    Why: Executive director: runs the plan or the office
    No route on file yet

Capital path

who backs this record, through what, into what; each name opens its own path
Who decides
Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation
Funds committed to
All 11
Managers
All 18

Relationship network

59 connected entities39 observed commitments3 repeat counterparties12 dated commitments shown here, 2024

From board minutes, annual reports, Form 5500 filings and public records of commitments, consultants and staff in the allocator graph. Commitment amounts are those the allocator disclosed; many are not printed, and none is estimated.

Some relationships on this record are counted rather than named here. They open with the full profile.

Click any name or line for the commitments and sources behind it. Line weight is commitments together; dashed lines are inferred.

What stands out
Reading the network
  • Sponsor
  • Fund or vehicle
  • Person
›How strength and recency are read

Managers, funds and consultants are read from the commitments: three or more is a strong observed relationship, two a repeat counterparty. No consultant link is marked current on the source, so none is labelled current or former here. Related plans, people and plan service providers are ordered by what the filing shows.

Darker lines were active in the last 24 months or are current; lighter lines are older or undated.

Size, funding, policy and commitments, with their basesFoundation · EIN 366108460Show
Foundation
Assets
$194M
Total assets, Dec 31, 2024 reported
Funded
no pension liability
not filed
Private markets target
no policy read
policy Dec 31, 2024
Commitments
39
18 managers on Schedule C

Allocation policy

IRS 990, as of Dec 31, 2024
Actual allocation lines without a target (as filed)
  • 645 VENTURES III, L.P. $1.7M

Consultants and advisers

No adviser relationship is on the tape for this allocator. Public systems name theirs in the ACFR; plans list them on Schedule C.

Decision makers

who to call first about an allocation, and why; then everyone else by function
  • Arnold Randall · EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & ASST. SECRETARY
    Why this person: Executive director: runs the plan or the office
  • Joel David Farren · EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & ASST. SECRETARY
    Why this person: Executive director: runs the plan or the office

Ranked by the role the firm or its filing states, a route on file and deals led. Every reason is read from the record, never inferred. Routes are published by the person or the firm (their bio, the team page or a filing) and are revealed on a plan; data bought from a provider is never shown, and a route printed at a firm the person has since left is held back.

People

2 roles

Manager roster

18 managers on the commitment tape
From the plan’s own commitment disclosures

+15 more managers received commitments

Every name, record and relationship behind this count, with the source on each.

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What changed

1 event
  • Dec 27, 2024Re-up prospectinference
    Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation holds G2VP II LLC; the manager is raising: G2vp III, LP (fundraising, Form D first sale 2024-12-27); no commitment to it on the graph
    with G2vp, LLC
Board record: approvals, recommendations, searches, terminations and re-up prospects for this system.

Commitments

39 rows, 0 dated closings
DateFundManagerBucketAmountVintageStatusSource
as of Dec 31, 2024CENTERGATE CAPITALCentergate CapitalPrivate equity$665,982 heldDisclosed holdingapps.irs.gov
as of Dec 31, 2024INDUSTRY VENTURES PTSHP HOLDINGS IV LPIndustry Ventures, L.L.C.Private equity$4.8M heldDisclosed holdingapps.irs.gov
as of Dec 31, 2024INDUSTRY VENTURES OATNERSHIP VIIIndustry Ventures, L.L.C.Private equity$250,497 heldDisclosed holdingapps.irs.gov

+36 more commitments

Every fund and manager this allocator committed to, with the amount, date and source on each.

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Size and funding

3 readings
Total assets
$194M Dec 31, 2024 reported IRS 990
$194M (2024-12)
Income
$68.7M Dec 31, 2024 reported IRS BMF

Provenance

Identifiers: EIN 366108460
Cross-graph: family office graph (shared ein)
First observed Sep 15, 2026, last observed Sep 16, 2026. Classification confirmed. Every row above carries its source; a reported figure is the subject’s own, a derived one is arithmetic on reported figures, an estimated one is a model or a survey imputation and is never summed into a headline.

Not yet on record: private markets allocation target.

Across the graphs

Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation is the same institution as 2 records in Family Offices and Independent Sponsors.

Family Offices1Independent Sponsors1

DFX found 2 relationships across 2 datasets

Which record it is in each graph, what it is called there, and how the two were matched.

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Capital chain

Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation sits on 28 traced paths of capital across the graphs.

Allocator commitments to a managerAllocator to VC fund to manager to companyAllocator to PE fund to manager to company

DFX traced 28 paths of capital through this record

Every record on each path, what it committed or lent, and as of when.

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Derived from allocator disclosures, BDC schedules and SEC filings; confidence is the weakest hop.

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Record history

1 dated event on the change ledger, latest event first
  • Re up prospect
    2024-12-27

The ledger records every merge, rename and reclassification this record went through and the dated filings observed on it, so the identity on this page can be traced to the records it was built from. The ledger's own sentences name other records, so they show with the names.

›Connections

every published relationship on the graph

+29 connections on the graph

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