How much does Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008 give?

Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008 reported 50 grants totaling $2,247,816 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 51 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008 fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (41%), Philanthropy (11%), Health (9%).

Who are Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Chicago Opera Theater ($750k), Chicago History Museum ($442k), Chicago Theatre Group Inc ($350k).

Does Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008 fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008 accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Polk Bros Foundation Inc, The Chicago Community Trust, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.

Where is Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008 based?

Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008 is based in IL.

Foundation Dossiers

Illinois · Private foundation

Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 50
Grants FY2024: 51
Organizations funded FY2023: 37%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $30,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $250,000
Organizations funded a year: 44 to 51; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 3
Total assets, FY2024: $44M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 37% of the organizations Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $440k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthEmploymentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	49	$2.2M	29%
FY2023	51	$1.9M	37%
FY2022	45	$2.4M	42%
FY2021	44	$1.9M	75%
FY2020	45	$2.0M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$4.7MPhilanthropy$1.2MHealth$1.0MEducation$885kYouth Development$664kCommunity Improvement$643kCrime & Legal$550kHuman Services$365kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Chicago Opera Theater	$750,000	2	12%
Chicago History Museum	$441,667	3	n/a
Chicago Theatre Group Inc	$350,000	4	0%
Uniting Voices	$300,000	2	4%
Chicago Architecture Foundation	$293,358	4	1%
Chinese American Service League Inc	$250,000	4	0%
Options for Youth	$225,000	3	13%
The Civic Federation	$200,000	2	6%
TFK Chicago Voyagers	$188,750	5	7%
Old Town School of Folk Music	$175,000	4	0%

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All grantees of Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008 by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Chicago Opera Theater	$750,000	2	12%
Chicago History Museum	$441,667	3	n/a
Chicago Theatre Group Inc	$350,000	4	0%
Uniting Voices	$300,000	2	4%
Chicago Architecture Foundation	$293,358	4	1%
Chinese American Service League Inc	$250,000	4	0%
Options for Youth	$225,000	3	13%
The Civic Federation	$200,000	2	6%
TFK Chicago Voyagers	$188,750	5	7%
Old Town School of Folk Music	$175,000	4	0%
SkyArt NFP	$175,000	3	9%
Illinois Railway Museum Inc	$170,400	3	2%
Puerto Rican Arts Alliance	$170,000	3	3%
The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired	$150,000	3	0%
Chicago Community Foundation	$150,000	1	n/a
Historic Pullman Foundation Dba Friends of Pullman	$145,000	3	84%
The Honeycomb Project Inc Nfp	$130,000	4	15%
Dominican University	$125,000	2	0%
Grant Park Orchestral Association	$125,000	4	1%
The Art Institute of Chicago	$120,000	3	0%
Lyric Opera of Chicago	$118,975	2	0%
Beverly Theater Guild	$109,000	3	46%
Allies for Community Business Inc	$105,000	4	0%
Children's Research Triangle	$100,000	2	1%
Reader Institute for Community Journalism Inc	$98,000	1	2%
Chicago Cred Inc	$90,000	1	0%
Luminarts Cultural Foundation the Union League Club of Chicago	$88,530	4	6%
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute	$85,000	2	3%
Navy Pier Inc	$83,333	1	0%
Old Irving Park Community Clinic	$83,000	4	4%
The American Writers Museum	$75,000	3	1%
Loyola University of Chicago	$75,000	3	0%
Gilloury Institute	$75,000	3	3%
Gads Hill Center	$75,000	2	0%
Cps Lives Nfp	$70,000	3	24%
Chicago Run	$70,000	3	2%
Common Threads	$65,000	2	1%
Chicago Youth Programs Inc	$65,000	2	4%
Recovery on Water Inc	$61,800	3	5%
Forefront	$55,000	2	0%
Legal Aid Chicago	$50,000	2	0%
Peer Health Exchange Inc	$50,000	2	1%
Better Government Association Inc	$50,000	2	1%
The National Public Housing Museum	$50,000	1	2%
Center for Disability & Elder Law Inc	$50,000	2	2%
Luster Learning Institute NFP	$50,000	1	6%
Kids First Chicago for Education	$50,000	1	2%
World Business Chicago	$50,000	1	1%
Mercy Housing Lakefront	$50,000	2	0%
Canine Therapy Corps Inc	$50,000	3	5%
Beer Culture Center	$50,000	1	50%
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Howard Brown Health Center	$45,000	2	0%
National Park Foundation	$45,000	2	0%
Friends of Historic Second Church	$43,750	1	9%
Brain Research Foundation	$40,000	2	1%
Breakthrough Urban Ministries Inc	$40,000	3	0%
Southland Development Authority Nfp	$37,500	1	1%
Rivendell Theatre Ensemble	$35,000	2	5%
Chicago Cultural Alliance	$30,000	2	4%
The Newberry Library	$30,000	2	0%
Chicago Parks Foundation	$30,000	2	1%
Metrosquash Nfp	$25,000	1	1%
Civic Consulting Alliance	$25,000	1	1%
AIDS Foundation of Chicago	$25,000	1	0%
Cradles to Crayons Inc	$25,000	1	0%
The Resurrection Project	$25,000	1	0%
Childrens Oncology Services Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Project Exploration	$25,000	1	3%
Writers Theatre Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Communities in Schools of Chicago	$25,000	1	0%
Southside Together Organizing For Power	$20,000	2	3%
Art Encounter	$20,000	2	2%
Marillac St Vincent Family Services Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill	$20,000	1	0%
Safe Families for Children Alliance	$20,000	1	0%
Union League Boys and Girls Clubs	$20,000	1	0%
Youth Crossroads Inc	$20,000	1	1%
Envision Unlimited	$20,000	1	0%
Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired	$20,000	1	0%
Life-Span	$20,000	1	n/a
Julie and Michael Tracy Family Foundation	$20,000	1	3%
Pcc Community Wellness Center	$19,000	1	0%
Ascend Justice	$15,000	1	1%
Playworks Education Energized	$15,000	1	0%
Nourishing Hope	$15,000	1	0%
Vandercook College of Music	$15,000	1	0%
McDermott Center	$15,000	1	0%
Rework Training	$15,000	1	1%
Children's Advocates for Change	$15,000	1	n/a
Chicago Survivors Inc	$15,000	1	1%
Mhub	$12,500	1	0%
Yemba Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Meals on Wheels Chicago	$10,000	1	1%
Spanish Coalition for Housing	$10,000	1	0%
Ray Graham Association for People With Disabilities	$10,000	1	0%
The Experimental Station	$10,000	1	0%
Albany Park Community Center Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Blessings in a Backpack Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Beyond Sports Foundation	$10,000	1	2%
Covenant House Illinois Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Habitat for Humanity Chicago	$10,000	1	0%
Aerostar Avion Institute	$10,000	1	5%
Inner-City Computer Stars Foundation	$10,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.

Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008 supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 101 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 101.

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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.

Polk Bros Foundation IncIL61.8× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008

How much does Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008 give?: Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008 reported 50 grants totaling $2,247,816 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 51 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008 fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (41%), Philanthropy (11%), Health (9%).
Who are Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Chicago Opera Theater ($750k), Chicago History Museum ($442k), Chicago Theatre Group Inc ($350k).
Does Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008 fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008 accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Polk Bros Foundation Inc, The Chicago Community Trust, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.
Where is Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008 based?: Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008 is based in IL.