· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL | $45,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| CHICAGO CITY DAY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CATCH A LIFT | $9,600 |
| MIAMI UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| HOLLY CROSS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $5,000 |
| 626 LANDMARK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| MISS HALLS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| LAKE FOREST ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| NURSES FOR NEWBORNS | $510 |
| MADEIRA SCHOOL | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 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
Backed again, and grew
- TBTHE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC7× · 2019–2025 · $176k · revenue +29%
- MHMISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC7× · 2019–2025 · $125k · revenue +24%
- CCCHICAGO CITY DAY SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- GCGlenelg Country School Incone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +9%
- UOUNIV OF MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINEone grant, 2019 · $5k
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +19%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CITY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER COFFLAND MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds 626 LANDMARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Glenelg Country School Inc ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds Comfort for Americas Uniformed Services ↗
- Who funds The Madeira School ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds MAKING EVERYTHING GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds McLain Association for Children ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Valley ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sethness Arnold Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sethness Arnold Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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