· Private foundation
The Sedoh 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 $10k4 grants · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRANT PARK MUSIC FESTIVAL | $55,000 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $3,000 |
| ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $3,000 |
| WTTW | $2,500 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% 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 +31% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GPGRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +127%
- TATHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO8× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +45%
- FWFrancis W Parker School2× · 2017–2018 · $18k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- FDFIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUNDone grant, 2019 · $91k
- CRCHILDRENS RESEARCH FUNDone grant, 2017 · $10k
- NMNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FUNDone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University ("The Auditorium"), an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, is committed to presenting the finest in international, cultural, community and educational programming to Chicago and to the…
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.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Achieving international impact through world-class research and education in fundamental computer science and information technology.
See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 29 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 GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Francis W Parker School ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Goldie B Wolfe Miller Women Leaders in Real Estate Initiative ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sedoh Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sedoh Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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