Illinois · Private foundation
Richard J and Linda J Sieracki 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.
- $65k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $975
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $17,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $94k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Richard J and Linda J Sieracki Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 23 | $56k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $197k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $125k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $193k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $72k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $111k | 46% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $97k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $77k | 45% |
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 Illinois Foundation | $321,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Depaul University | $165,214 | 8 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $120,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Holy Name Cathedral | $48,825 | 9 | n/a |
| St Mary's Food Bank Alliance | $36,900 | 6 | 0% |
| Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness | $8,100 | 6 | 0% |
| Midwest Access Coalition | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Chicago Abortion Fund | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Project Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kinder Morgan Foundation | $5,145 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($276k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Richard J and Linda J Sieracki 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: AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good
How this is measured
Compare Richard J and Linda J Sieracki Foundation with peer funders
About Richard J and Linda J Sieracki Foundation
- How much does Richard J and Linda J Sieracki Foundation give?
- Richard J and Linda J Sieracki Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $65,433 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Richard J and Linda J Sieracki Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (54%), Food & Nutrition (15%), Religion (11%).
- Who are Richard J and Linda J Sieracki Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Illinois Foundation ($322k), Depaul University ($165k), Greater Chicago Food Depository ($120k).
- Does Richard J and Linda J Sieracki Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Richard J and Linda J Sieracki 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 Richard J and Linda J Sieracki Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Motorola Solutions Foundation.
- Where is Richard J and Linda J Sieracki Foundation based?
- Richard J and Linda J Sieracki Foundation is based in IL.
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