Illinois · Private foundation
Morgan Senior 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.
- $51k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $16,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $347k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Morgan Senior Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 | 19 | $51k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $43k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $37k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $35k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $33k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $32k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $32k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $46k | 41% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lyric Opera of Chicago | $71,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $67,400 | 9 | 0% |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $44,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Royal Oak Foundation Inc | $22,893 | 4 | 1% |
| The Antiquarian Society | $19,251 | 9 | 1% |
| The Frick Collection | $10,110 | 7 | 0% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $9,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Children's Health Defense | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Steppenwolf Theatre Company | $5,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Lincoln Park Zoological Society | $5,250 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($66k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Morgan Senior 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: The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Morgan Senior Foundation
- How much does Morgan Senior Foundation give?
- Morgan Senior Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $51,190 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Morgan Senior Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (83%), Religion (5%), Health (4%).
- Who are Morgan Senior Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lyric Opera of Chicago ($71k), The Art Institute of Chicago ($67k), Chicago Symphony Orchestra ($44k).
- Does Morgan Senior Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Morgan Senior 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 Morgan Senior Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Morgan Senior Foundation based?
- Morgan Senior Foundation is based in IL.
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