· Private foundation
Seymour a Cohen Family 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $185k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $135,000 |
| METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES | $50,000 |
| CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING | $15,000 |
| CASA OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY | $5,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| LINK UNLIMITED SCHOLARS | $5,000 |
| RAVINIA | $4,900 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WOMEN'S BOARD | $3,000 |
| LIFE LONG MEDICAL CARE | $2,500 |
| HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,926 |
| HHP LIFT | $600 |
| LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION | $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 (FY17–25, $379k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +60% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 14 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
University of Chicago7× · 2018–2024 · $428k · revenue +52%- MFMetropolitan Family Services9× · 2017–2025 · $379k · revenue +332%
- BABEACON ACADEMY A MONTESSORI HIGH SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $161k · revenue +62%
Funded once
ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -4%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $5k
- LCLEUKEMIA CANCER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Our mission is to strengthen and heal families and individuals from all walks of life through clinical service, education and research.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Roosevelt university is an independent, non-profit, metropolitan university and national leader in educating socially conscious citizens for active and dedicated lives as leaders in their professions and their communities. the university's…
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 40 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 University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
- Who funds BEACON ACADEMY A MONTESSORI HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds LINK Unlimited Scholars ↗
- Who funds GASTRO INTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds Chicago State Foundation ↗
- Who funds LIFELONG MEDICAL CARE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation ↗
- Who funds Chicago Youth Centers ↗
- Who funds HHPLIFT ↗
- Who funds Erikson Institute ↗
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 · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Circle of Service Foundation · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Seymour a Cohen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seymour a Cohen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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