Illinois · Private foundation
The Katherine Soodek Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $12k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 5
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $115k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Katherine Soodek Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $12k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $12k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $13k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $11k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $12k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $10k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $10k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $13k | 33% |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Animals$66kArts & Culture$25k
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Felines Inc | $28,180 | 9 | 0% |
| Victory Gardens Theater | $12,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Kittens in the Mitten Inc | $6,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Humane World for Animals Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chicago Theatre Group Inc | $5,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Humane World for Animals International | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| About Face Theatre Collective Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($42k), not named here.
About The Katherine Soodek Foundation
- How much does The Katherine Soodek Foundation give?
- The Katherine Soodek Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $12,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Katherine Soodek Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (72%), Arts & Culture (28%).
- Who are The Katherine Soodek Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Felines Inc ($28k), Victory Gardens Theater ($13k), Kittens in the Mitten Inc ($6k).
- Does The Katherine Soodek Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Katherine Soodek Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is The Katherine Soodek Foundation based?
- The Katherine Soodek Foundation is based in IL.
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