Illinois · Private foundation
Sethness Arnold 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.
- $145k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 20
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Sethness Arnold Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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 | 20 | $145k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $138k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $132k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $115k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $134k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $127k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $114k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Blue Ridge School Inc | $176,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Miss Hall's School Inc | $125,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Chicago City Day School | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Worcester Preparatory School Inc | $36,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Furman University | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Christopher Coffland Memorial Fund Inc | $24,600 | 5 | 0% |
| Loyola Academy | $22,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Sacred Heart School | $16,000 | 3 | n/a |
| 626 Landmark Foundation | $15,000 | 3 | 1% |
| University of Miami | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($329k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sethness Arnold 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: The Chicago Community Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good
How this is measured
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About Sethness Arnold Foundation
- How much does Sethness Arnold Foundation give?
- Sethness Arnold Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $145,110 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 20 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Sethness Arnold Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (60%), Human Services (3%), Arts & Culture (3%).
- Who are Sethness Arnold Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Blue Ridge School Inc ($176k), Miss Hall's School Inc ($125k), Chicago City Day School ($60k).
- Does Sethness Arnold Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sethness Arnold 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 Sethness Arnold Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, The Ayco Charitable Foundation, AbbVie Foundation.
- Where is Sethness Arnold Foundation based?
- Sethness Arnold Foundation is based in IL.
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