Illinois · Private foundation
Season of Change 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.
- $33k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $300
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,415
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 36
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $529k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Season of Change Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 41 | $30k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $28k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $22k | 46% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $25k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $26k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $27k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Klezmer Music Foundation | $43,474 | 6 | 16% |
| Kol Hadash Humanistic Congregation | $38,123 | 6 | n/a |
| The Taft School Corporation | $5,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Genesis at the Crossroads Inc | $4,550 | 6 | 0% |
| Congregation Oheb Shalom | $4,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Friends of Elnet | $4,369 | 3 | 0% |
| Ravinia Festival Association | $3,500 | 3 | 0% |
| American Friends of Alyn Hospitalinc | $3,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Northlight Theatre Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Nuclear Threat Initiative Inc | $2,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 61 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($16k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Season of Change 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: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Season of Change Foundation
- How much does Season of Change Foundation give?
- Season of Change Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $32,963 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 36 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Season of Change Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (31%), Religion (28%), International (8%).
- Who are Season of Change Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Klezmer Music Foundation ($43k), Kol Hadash Humanistic Congregation ($38k), The Taft School Corporation ($5k).
- Does Season of Change Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Season of Change 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 Season of Change Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Lloyd a Fry Foundation.
- Where is Season of Change Foundation based?
- Season of Change Foundation is based in IL.
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