· Private foundation
Szalay 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UPMC CHILDREN HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| HOLY NAME CATHEDRAL | $15,000 |
| UPPER VALLEY(NH) MUSIC CENTER | $15,000 |
| DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH | $5,000 |
| ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $3,000 |
| SHEDD AQUARIUM | $2,500 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO | $2,500 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $1,000 |
| SOLTI FOUNDATION | $800 |
| NORTON MUSEUMOF ART | $700 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of its 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 +7% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $40k · revenue -7%
- HNHOLY NAME CATHEDRAL5× · 2021–2025 · $36k
- UVUPPER VALLEY(NH) MUSIC CENTER3× · 2023–2025 · $25k
Funded once
- SPST PATRICK CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $5k
- SNSMITHSONIAN NATIONAL ZOOone grant, 2024 · $5k
- OAOMAHA AREA YOUTH ORCHESTRASone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +5%
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.
With the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at its core, the mission of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association is to enrich, inspire and transform lives through music, community engagement and education - locally, nationally and…
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
We believe in the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Lyric Opera of Chicago exists to provide a broad, deep, and relevant cultural service to the Chicago region and the nation, and to advance the…
The driehaus museum engages and inspires the global community through exploration and ongoing conversations in art, architecture, and design of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. its permanent collection and temporary…
The Design Museum of Chicago strives to inspire, educate and innovate through design. As a resource for the Chicago design community and beyond, the museum facilitates an open dialogue about contemporary and historical design through…
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
Cultivates new and emerging Chicago artists, and aims to benefit artists by exploring art and learning. Through exhibitions, artist residencies, classes/workshops and community building, we are dedicated to cultivating new voices, ideas,…
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra's mission as a professional orchestra is to utilize the universal expression of music to create profound, inspiring, and personal connections between the people and communities of Chicagos Southland.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Presenting free high-quality classical music performances and music education experiences in the Chicago metropolitan area for people of all ages and degrees of musical awareness so they can experience how music enriches life.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 23 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 CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OMAHA AREA YOUTH ORCHESTRAS ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds THE SOLTI FOUNDATION US CO Fiona Queen ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS CHICAGO ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Szalay Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Szalay Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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