Illinois · Private foundation
Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $3.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 66
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,121,991
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 49
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k 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 | 65 | $3.1M | 25% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $1.6M | 35% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $1.1M | 39% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $774k | 48% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $228k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $565k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 48 | $1.7M | 40% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $3.6M | 55% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Chicago | $2,732,214 | 4 | 0% |
| Evanston Township High School District 202 Ed Foundation | $1,761,158 | 5 | 24% |
| Amherst College Trustees | $1,677,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $1,397,198 | 7 | 0% |
| Young Mens Christian Assoc McGaw Inc | $721,828 | 6 | 2% |
| Firstrepair | $585,088 | 3 | 27% |
| Onegoal | $379,333 | 2 | 2% |
| Teach for America Inc | $336,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Chicago Public Education Fund | $320,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Evanston Scholars | $280,000 | 6 | 8% |
Show all 98 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 86 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Evanston Community Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Finnegan Family Foundation · Northwestern University · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl Foundation · The Kellcie Fund · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc
How this is measured
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About Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation
- How much does Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation give?
- Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation reported 66 grants totaling $3,081,834 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 49 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (57%), Recreation & Sports (10%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Chicago ($2.7M), Evanston Township High School District 202 Ed Foundation ($1.8M), Amherst College Trustees ($1.7M).
- Does Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Evanston Community Foundation, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation based?
- Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation is based in IL.
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