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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 FY2025(still arriving)
33
Grants FY2025
33
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$26,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$55,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 33
FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$5.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Seigle Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $919k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving33$951k15%
FY202433$919k100%
FY20231$723k0%
FY20221$540kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Community Crisis Center Inc$110,00021%
Easter Seals Dupage & the Fox Valley Region$100,00021%
Hamilton Wings$100,000216%
Marklund Childrens Home$100,00020%
Center for Information of Elgin (Centro de Informacion)$90,11022%
Kids Above All Illinois$72,00020%
Enriching Partnerships for Early Learning$65,000218%
Casa Kane County$60,00021%
Side Street Studio Arts$55,00024%
Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra$55,00023%
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All grantees of Seigle Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Community Crisis Center Inc$110,00021%
Easter Seals Dupage & the Fox Valley Region$100,00021%
Hamilton Wings$100,000216%
Marklund Childrens Home$100,00020%
Center for Information of Elgin (Centro de Informacion)$90,11022%
Kids Above All Illinois$72,00020%
Enriching Partnerships for Early Learning$65,000218%
Casa Kane County$60,00021%
Side Street Studio Arts$55,00024%
Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra$55,00023%
Pads of Elgin Inc$55,00022%
Food for Greater Elgin Inc$55,00020%
Elgin Symphony Orchestra Association$50,00021%
Elgin Master Chorale Inc$50,00026%
Fox Valley Food for Health Inc$45,00024%
Elgin Area Historical Society$45,00017%
Childrens Theatre of Elgin & Fox Valley Theatre Company$45,00028%
Summit School Inc$34,00020%
The Literacy Connection$32,50029%
Chamber Music on the Fox Inc$31,015214%
Northern Illinois Food Bank$30,00020%
D300 Food Pantry$30,00012%
U-46 Educational Foundation$26,000119%
Fellowship Housing Corporation$25,00021%
Association for Individual Development$25,00010%
Clearbrook$23,10020%
Elgin Public Museum$20,000113%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Seigle Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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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.

About Seigle Foundation

How much does Seigle Foundation give?
Seigle Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $950,780 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 33 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does Seigle Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Arts & Culture (27%), Housing & Shelter (19%).
Who are Seigle Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Community Crisis Center Inc ($110k), Easter Seals Dupage & the Fox Valley Region ($100k), Hamilton Wings ($100k).
Does Seigle Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Seigle 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 Seigle Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Victoria Foundation, Efs Foundation, Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley.
Where is Seigle Foundation based?
Seigle Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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