Illinois · Private foundation
Sue Ling Gin Foundation Trust
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.
- $34M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $160,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $58M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Sue Ling Gin Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.5M 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 | 21 | $34M | 67% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $8.6M | 75% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $4.5M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $4.7M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $4.0M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $2.9M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $1.4M | 100% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $54k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago Community Foundation | $17,285,506 | 6 | n/a |
| The Commercial Club Foundation | $13,035,050 | 2 | 46% |
| Field Museum of Natural History | $10,385,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Chicago Cred Inc | $7,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Cara Program | $5,000,000 | 1 | 24% |
| Depaul University | $3,000,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rush University Medical Center | $1,858,086 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $1,160,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chinese American Service League Inc | $700,124 | 6 | 2% |
| Greater Jamaica Development Corporation | $305,000 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sue Ling Gin Foundation Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008 · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · AbbVie Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
About Sue Ling Gin Foundation Trust
- How much does Sue Ling Gin Foundation Trust give?
- Sue Ling Gin Foundation Trust reported 24 grants totaling $34,356,336 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sue Ling Gin Foundation Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (35%), Philanthropy (29%), Arts & Culture (18%).
- Who are Sue Ling Gin Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Chicago Community Foundation ($17M), The Commercial Club Foundation ($13M), Field Museum of Natural History ($10M).
- Does Sue Ling Gin Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sue Ling Gin Foundation Trust 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 Sue Ling Gin Foundation Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008, The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation.
- Where is Sue Ling Gin Foundation Trust based?
- Sue Ling Gin Foundation Trust is based in IL.
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