Illinois · Private foundation
Sargent Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 61
- Grants FY2024
- 63
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $350,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 60 to 65
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $39M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Sargent Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 61 | $1.5M | 2% |
| FY2023 | 63 | $1.1M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 64 | $1.0M | 6% |
| FY2021 | 65 | $848k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 60 | $725k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $580,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Loyola Academy | $505,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Hope Ignites Chicago | $226,700 | 5 | 2% |
| Merit School of Music | $190,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Cristo Rey Jesuit High School | $182,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Peninsula School of Art Inc | $165,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Lyric Opera of Chicago | $140,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Erikson Institute | $113,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Cradle Foundation | $108,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Ding Darling Wildlife Society Inc | $87,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sargent Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 49 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: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · John R Halligan Charitable Fund · The Siragusa Family Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
About Sargent Family Foundation
- How much does Sargent Family Foundation give?
- Sargent Family Foundation reported 61 grants totaling $1,530,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 60 and 65 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Sargent Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (45%), Education (16%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Sargent Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Chicago Symphony Orchestra ($580k), Loyola Academy ($505k), Hope Ignites Chicago ($227k).
- Does Sargent Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sargent Family 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 Sargent Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc.
- Where is Sargent Family Foundation based?
- Sargent Family Foundation is based in IL.
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