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Seigle 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.

$951k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$1.0MArts & Culture$954kHousing & Shelter$661kHealth$248kHuman Services$232kFood & Nutrition$160kCivil Rights$90kCrime & Legal$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $691k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $255k
$26,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Community Crisis Center$55,000
Marklund Childrens Home$50,000
Easterseals DuPage and Fox Valley$50,000
Hamilton Wings$50,000
Enriching Pship for Early Learning$50,000
Centro De Informacion$46,680
Alignment Collaborative For Edu$44,000
Kids Above All Illinois$36,000
Individual grant recipient$35,000
Side Street Studio Arts NFP$30,000
CASA Kane County$30,000
Food For Greater Elgin$30,000
Elgin Master Chorale Inc$30,000
D300 Food Pantry$30,000
Pads of Elgin$30,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Clearbrook: $18k → 14%Clearbrook: $5k → 14%Marklund Childrens Home: $50k → 8%Marklund Childrens Home: $50k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.9M · 29 repeat orgs$276k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
5

Total granted

$2.9M
$135k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
0%

Still filing today

76%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    COMMUNITY CRISIS CENTER INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $110k · revenue +15%
  • ES
    EASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY REGION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +4%
  • HW
    HAMILTON WINGS
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • EA
    ELGIN AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2024 · $45k · revenue 0%
  • GB
    Gail Borden Library
    one grant, 2024 · $40k
  • EM
    Elgin Math andvScience Academy
    one grant, 2024 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Family Service Association of Greater Elgin Area

Family Service Association of Greater Elgin Area is dedicated to empowering individuals and families, promoting self sufficiency and building stronger communities through quality, accessible client centered services.

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2
Elgin Area Chamber of Commerce

The Elgin Area Chamber connects communities through engagement, advocacy, collaboration, and leadership.

Community Improvement
3
Elgin Cares
Human Services
4
Alvin Eades Center Inc

Residential services in Jacksonville, Illinois for developmentally disabled adults.

Human Services
5
Elgin Charter School Initiative

Together, we will equip our students to be successful in a changing world and we will empower them to think critically with a global perspective while living out our habits of scholarship: respect, resposibility, courage and creativity.

Education
6
Elmview Inc

Equip people with disabilities to identify and reach their maximum potential throughout their lives by providing Vocational and Community programs.

Human Services
7
Elliot Park Neighborhood Inc

Building community vitality by connecting and empowering neighbors.

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8
Elk Hill Farm Inc

Elk hill farm, inc. enables children and families to transform overwhelming challenges into successful futures.

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9
Early Learning Indiana Inc

Early learning indiana (eli) is on a mission to ensure every child is empowered with essential skills to thrive in kindergarten and beyond. (see schedule o for continuation)

Human Services
10
Center for Disability & Elder Law Inc

CDEL has a dual mission, which has remained constant since the organization was founded in 1984: 1. To provide free legal services to low-income seniors and persons with disabilities who reside in Chicago and suburban Cook County,…

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11
The Early Learning Center

The elc is a child enrichment program designed to create the love of learning with a partnership between parents and teachers. through discovery, growth, nurturing and creativity the children develop to their highest potential.

Human Services
12
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc

The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra and the most unlike its peers is U-46 Educational Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%20%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr15%24%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%5%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%15%10–20yr17%34%20–35yr15%23%35–55yr16%24%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
16%
5,235/33,382

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
16/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Seigle Foundation — $1,262,352 · OtherSeigle FoundationCENTER FOR INFORMATION OF ELGIN (CENTRO DE INFORMACION) — $90,110 · OtherAlignment Collaborative For Edu — $81,000 · OtherKids Above All Illinois — $72,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $65,000 · Other+11 more — $374,000 · Other+11 moreHAMILTON WINGS — $100,000 · Arts & CultureHAMILTON WIN…SIDE STREET STUDIO ARTS — $55,000 · Arts & CultureSIDE STREET …ELGIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $50,000 · Arts & CultureELGIN SYMPHO…ELGIN MASTER CHORALE INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureELGIN MASTER…CHILDRENS THEATRE OF ELGIN & FOX VALLEY THEATRE COMPANY — $45,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDRENS TH…CHAMBER MUSIC ON THE FOX INC — $31,015 · Arts & CultureCHAMBER MUSI…ELGIN PUBLIC MUSEUM — $20,000 · Arts & CultureELGIN PUBLIC…COMMUNITY CRISIS CENTER INC — $110,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY…MARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME — $100,000 · Human ServicesMARKLUND …ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT — $25,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATI…CLEARBROOK — $23,100 · Human ServicesCLEARBROO…Enriching Partnerships for Early Learning — $65,000 · EducationELGIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $55,000 · EducationTHE LITERACY CONNECTION — $32,500 · EducationU-46 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $26,000 · EducationFOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC — $55,000 · Food & NutritionFOX VALLEY FOOD FOR HEALTH INC — $45,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $30,000 · Food & NutritionD300 Food Pantry — $30,000 · Food & NutritionEASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY REGION — $100,000 · HealthPADS OF ELGIN INC — $55,000 · Housing & ShelterFellowship Housing Corporation — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterCASA KANE COUNTY — $60,000 · Civil Rights
Other$1,944,462Arts & Culture$351,015Human Services$258,100Education$178,500Food & Nutrition$160,000Health$100,000Housing & Shelter$80,000Civil Rights$60,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITY CRISIS CENTER INC — $110,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetEASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY REGION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHAMILTON WINGS — $100,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetMARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR INFORMATION OF ELGIN (CENTRO DE INFORMACION) — $90,110 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetKids Above All Illinois — $72,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEnriching Partnerships for Early Learning — $65,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetCASA KANE COUNTY — $60,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSIDE STREET STUDIO ARTS — $55,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetELGIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $55,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetPADS OF ELGIN INC — $55,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetFOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetELGIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetELGIN MASTER CHORALE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetFOX VALLEY FOOD FOR HEALTH INC — $45,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetELGIN AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $45,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetCHILDRENS THEATRE OF ELGIN & FOX VALLEY THEATRE COMPANY — $45,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetSUMMIT SCHOOL INC — $34,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LITERACY CONNECTION — $32,500 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetCHAMBER MUSIC ON THE FOX INC — $31,015 over 2y, 14% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetD300 Food Pantry — $30,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetU-46 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $26,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetFellowship Housing Corporation — $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEARBROOK — $23,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELGIN PUBLIC MUSEUM — $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Grand Victoria Founda…Efs FoundationCommunity Foundation …Hoffer FoundationArthur J Gallagher Fo…Florence B & Cornelia…United Way of Metropo…Harvey and Ethel Daeu…The Bersted FoundationThe Chicago Community…United Way of Elgin I…Andrew and Alice Fisc…
Grand Victoria FoundationIL40.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Victoria Foundation · Efs Foundation · Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Hoffer Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Florence B & Cornelia a Palmer Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Harvey and Ethel Daeumer Foundation · The Bersted Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Elgin Inc · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Seigle Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Seigle Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Seigle Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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