· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $221k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ETHS FOUNDATION | $1,121,991 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| A BETTER CHICAGO | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $176,000 |
| FIRST REPAIR | $175,000 |
| MCGAW YMCA | $150,500 |
| BRAVEN | $150,000 |
| YOU | $100,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $75,000 |
| FORA | $50,500 |
| ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS | $50,000 |
| NORTHLIGHT THEATER | $50,000 |
| EVANSTON SCHOLARS | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $952k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 39% of Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 48%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
67 repeat relationships: 49 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $521k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
University of Chicago4× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +56%- ETEVANSTON TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 202 ED FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +671%
- ACAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES6× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +141%
Funded once
- CPCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2018 · $320k · revenue -68%
- EREVANSTON REBUILDING WAREHOUSEone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- PCPeace Corps Foundationone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -56%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
How this is measured
93 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 93 of the 147 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 202 ED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Assoc McGaw Inc ↗
- Who funds FIRSTREPAIR ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds EVANSTONSKOKIE DISTRICT 65 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (FOUNDATION 65) ↗
- Who funds Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ↗
- Who funds A Better Chicago ↗
- Who funds BOOKS AND BREAKFAST ↗
- Who funds BRAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHLIGHT THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Evanston Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ROBERT CROWN CENTER ↗
- Who funds UBUNTU GLOBAL CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH CORP ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON REBUILDING WAREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds Peace Corps Foundation ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds GIRLS PLAY SPORTS INC NFP ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL DEWITT PROCTOR CONFERENCE INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- Restless Books Inc: 5% of income from government
- University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
- New England Public Media Inc: 0% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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