Illinois · Private foundation
Seyfarth Shaw Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $287k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 118
- Grants FY2024
- 133
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $17,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 72 to 133
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 23
- Total assets, FY2024
- $20k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Seyfarth Shaw Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 118 | $287k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 133 | $282k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 107 | $236k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 82 | $201k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 72 | $224k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta Inc | $87,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Lawyers Alliance for New York | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| America's Charities | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Northeastern & Central California | $37,500 | 5 | 0% |
| San Francisco Jazz Organization | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Cradles to Crayons Inc | $18,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Chris 180 Inc | $18,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Capital Area Food Bank Inc | $17,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Tsc Alliance Endowment Fund Inc | $16,500 | 5 | 5% |
| United Negro College Fund Inc | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 161 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 59 recipients with no EIN on record ($263k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Seyfarth Shaw Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 141 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Equal Justice Works · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Katten Muchin Rosenman Foundation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · The Morrison & Foerster Foundation · Littler Mendelson Foundation Inc Attn Tax Manager · Perkins Coie Foundation · The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation · The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Mc Dermott Will and Emery Charitable Foundation · Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois
How this is measured
Compare Seyfarth Shaw Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About Seyfarth Shaw Charitable Foundation
- How much does Seyfarth Shaw Charitable Foundation give?
- Seyfarth Shaw Charitable Foundation reported 118 grants totaling $286,563 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 72 and 133 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Seyfarth Shaw Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (27%), Human Services (11%), Health (11%).
- Who are Seyfarth Shaw Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta Inc ($88k), Lawyers Alliance for New York ($60k), America's Charities ($50k).
- Does Seyfarth Shaw Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Seyfarth Shaw Charitable 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 Seyfarth Shaw Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Equal Justice Works, The Sidley Austin Foundation, Katten Muchin Rosenman Foundation Inc.
- Where is Seyfarth Shaw Charitable Foundation based?
- Seyfarth Shaw Charitable Foundation is based in IL.
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