· 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.
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 $10k16 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $16,000 |
| Lyric Opera of Chicago | $10,000 |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $10,000 |
| Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute | $3,880 |
| Field Museum of Natural History (Women's Board) | $2,500 |
| Partners For Progress | $1,500 |
| The Frick Collection | $1,500 |
| Alliance Franaise de Chicago | $1,100 |
| Northwoods Living Care Foundation | $1,000 |
| St Chrysostom's Episcopal Church | $1,000 |
| Christ Church | $1,000 |
| Chicago History Museum | $650 |
| NIGHT MINISTRY | $500 |
| 626 LANDMARK FOUNDATION | $200 |
| JP MORGAN LIBRARY | $100 |
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, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +43% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LOLyric Opera of Chicago8× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +33%
- TATHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO9× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +45%
- CSChicago Symphony Orchestra9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- FMFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORYone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -7%
- AFAmerican Friends of Christ Church Incone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -75%
- TNTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARYone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +7%
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 museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The Chicago History Museum strives to be a destination for learning, inspiration, and civic engagement. Through dynamic exhibitions, tours, programs, digital resources, and special events, the Museum connects people to Chicago's history…
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
To inspire conservation leadership by connecting people with wildlife and nature.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of the lincoln park conservancy is to preserve and enhance the inspiring beauty of chicago's largest and most visited park for current and future generations. we believe that beauty matters. that it has the transformative power…
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 64 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 Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds THE ROYAL OAK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE ↗
- Who funds STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR PROGRESS NFP ↗
- Who funds THEATER WIT NFP ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Christ Church Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds DEBORAH'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds 626 LANDMARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Lakeview East Community Partnership ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Morgan Senior Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Morgan Senior Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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