Illinois · Private foundation
Russell and Josephine Kott Memorial Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 45
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $380,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 39
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $30M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Russell and Josephine Kott Memorial Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k 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 | 45 | $1.7M | 42% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $1.3M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $1.1M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $1.1M | 3% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $1.7M | 51% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $1.4M | 55% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concordia University Chicago | $1,051,787 | 6 | 0% |
| Ageoptions Inc (Fka Suburban Area Agency on Aging) | $595,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Center for Disability & Elder Law Inc | $488,000 | 7 | 11% |
| Aging Care Connections | $384,800 | 7 | 3% |
| The West Cook Young Men's Christian Associations Inc | $355,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Window to the World Communications Inc | $340,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois | $335,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Concordia University Inc | $310,000 | 4 | 0% |
| North Shore Senior Center | $285,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Lutheran Social Services of Illinois | $280,000 | 6 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Russell and Josephine Kott Memorial Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 55 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Ageoptions Inc (Fka Suburban Area Agency on Aging) · Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Healthy Communities Foundation · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · Greater Chicago Food Depository · AbbVie Foundation · The Christopher Family Foundation · The Dupage Community Foundation · Westlake Health Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Russell and Josephine Kott Memorial Charitable Trust with peer funders
About Russell and Josephine Kott Memorial Charitable Trust
- How much does Russell and Josephine Kott Memorial Charitable Trust give?
- Russell and Josephine Kott Memorial Charitable Trust reported 45 grants totaling $1,690,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 39 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Russell and Josephine Kott Memorial Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (33%), Education (17%), Health (14%).
- Who are Russell and Josephine Kott Memorial Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Concordia University Chicago ($1.1M), Ageoptions Inc (Fka Suburban Area Agency on Aging) ($595k), Center for Disability & Elder Law Inc ($488k).
- Does Russell and Josephine Kott Memorial Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Russell and Josephine Kott Memorial Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Russell and Josephine Kott Memorial Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities, Ageoptions Inc (Fka Suburban Area Agency on Aging).
- Where is Russell and Josephine Kott Memorial Charitable Trust based?
- Russell and Josephine Kott Memorial Charitable Trust is based in IL.
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