Illinois · Private foundation
Arthur & Sylvia Katz Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $9k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $39k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Arthur & Sylvia Katz Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $9k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $8k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $10k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $11k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $11k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $12k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $11k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $13k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Jewish Committee | $41,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Temple Sholom of Chicago | $17,100 | 9 | n/a |
| Friends of the Forum | $9,650 | 9 | 0% |
| Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc | $7,400 | 9 | 0% |
| The Maddie Kramer Foundation d/b/a Dancing While Cancering | $4,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $3,265 | 7 | 0% |
| United Nations Watch - USA | $3,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| McDermott Center | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Paws Chicago | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Jewish Committee | $41,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Temple Sholom of Chicago | $17,100 | 9 | n/a |
| Friends of the Forum | $9,650 | 9 | 0% |
| Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc | $7,400 | 9 | 0% |
| The Maddie Kramer Foundation d/b/a Dancing While Cancering | $4,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $3,265 | 7 | 0% |
| United Nations Watch - USA | $3,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| McDermott Center | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Paws Chicago | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Genesis at the Crossroads Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $150 | 1 | 0% |
| Special Olympics Inc | $110 | 1 | 0% |
| Window to the World Communications Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($4k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Arthur & Sylvia Katz Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Arthur & Sylvia Katz Foundation
- How much does Arthur & Sylvia Katz Foundation give?
- Arthur & Sylvia Katz Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $9,315 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Arthur & Sylvia Katz Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (54%), Religion (18%), International (14%).
- Who are Arthur & Sylvia Katz Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Jewish Committee ($42k), Temple Sholom of Chicago ($17k), Friends of the Forum ($10k).
- Does Arthur & Sylvia Katz Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Arthur & Sylvia Katz Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Arthur & Sylvia Katz Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Arthur & Sylvia Katz Foundation based?
- Arthur & Sylvia Katz Foundation is based in IL.
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