· 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.
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 $10k24 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $17,500 |
| McCormick Foundation | $8,000 |
| St Mary's Food Bank | $8,000 |
| Planned Parenthood | $6,000 |
| Chicago Sinai Congregation | $5,040 |
| Holy Name Cathedral | $5,000 |
| Annual Catholic Appeal | $4,500 |
| No Kid Hungry | $2,500 |
| The Nature Conservancy | $1,118 |
| DePaul University | $1,000 |
| USGA | $1,000 |
| Habitat For Humanity | $1,000 |
| Kanter Morgan Foundation | $975 |
| St Patricks Catholic Church | $750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
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 (FY20–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 25% 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 +31% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
45 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 6 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 Illinois Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $322k · revenue +127%- DUDEPAUL UNIVERSITY8× · 2018–2025 · $165k · revenue +15%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY8× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +140%
Funded once
- MAMIDWEST ACCESS COALITIONone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -43%
- CACHICAGO ABORTION FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +602%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES INCone grant, 2022 · $3k
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 chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.
Chicago Cares, Inc. mobilizes volunteers to build a stronger, more unified Chicago.
The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
The aids foundation of chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.
The chicagoland chamber of commerce combines the power of people, with our legacy of leadership and business advocacy, to drive a dynamic economy. we focus on delivering value for our members, making chicagoland a world-class place to live…
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 mission shall be to provide fundraising, advocacy, and advisory support for cancer research at the comprehensive cancer center at the university of chicago.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
How this is measured
41 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. 41 of the 87 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 Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO ABORTION FUND ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Kinder Morgan Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Juntos y Unidos por Puerto Rico Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds Role Model Movement Inc (NFP) ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard J and Linda J Sieracki Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard J and Linda J Sieracki Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
How this is measured
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