Grants awarded
Who does The Sidley Austin Foundation fund?
The Sidley Austin Foundation has awarded $25 million across 2,000 grants to 945 grantees between 2020 and 2025. Its giving concentrates in education. Its typical grant is $5,000, with most between $1,000 and $11,500. Repeat grantees receive a median $5,000 versus $2,500 for first-time grantees.
Total awarded
$24.8M
Typical grant
$5K
Grantees
945
Grants
2,000
Years
2020–2025
Organizations this funder supports
Each grantee's funding from this organization, summed across all reported years. Largest first — click any column to re-sort.
| Grantee | Total received | Grants | Years | Latest | State | Follow |
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| L Legal Aid Society | $2.0M | 8 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
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$1.1M | 6 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | IL | |
| L Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia | $703K | 15 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | DC | |
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago INC
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$660K | 6 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | IL | |
| I Individual recipient | $517K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
Equal Justice Works
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$460K | 7 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | DC | |
| N NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund INC | $401K | 8 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
National Veterans Legal Services Program INC
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$329K | 29 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | VA | |
| T Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York | $310K | 4 | 2020–2022 | 2022 | NY | |
| M Metropolitan Family Services | $307K | 8 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
Youth Renewal Fund
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$306K | 10 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity INC
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$306K | 4 | 2020–2022 | 2022 | NY | |
| J Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $300K | 6 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| C Commercial Club Civic Committee Charitable Foundation | $292K | 6 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
Legal Services Corporation
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$250K | 4 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | DC | |
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$245K | 9 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
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$240K | 5 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
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$225K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | IL | |
| K Kaboom INC | $222K | 6 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
Childrens Law Center Incorporated
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$183K | 9 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | DC | |
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest INC
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$175K | 7 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
Chicago Bar Foundation
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$170K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | IL | |
Kaboom INC
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$162K | 5 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | MD | |
Public Interest Law Initiative
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$160K | 4 | 2020–2023 | 2023 | IL | |
Melanoma Research Alliance Foundation
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$160K | 2 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | DC | |
World Business Chicago
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$155K | 8 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | IL | |
| H Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights | $154K | 8 | 2020–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation
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$152K | 6 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | IL | |
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$150K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
| L Legal Aid Chicago | $150K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
Bread for the City INC
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$147K | 12 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | DC | |
Northwestern University
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$140K | 27 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | IL | |
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$138K | 11 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
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$138K | 6 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | DC | |
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$130K | 5 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | NY | |
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$125K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
Brooklyn Academy of Music INC
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$125K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
Hnba Via-Vision in Action-Fund
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$120K | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | DC | |
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$120K | 3 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | PA | |
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$115K | 3 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | NY | |
| N Northwestern Memorial Foundation | $115K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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$110K | 2 | 2020–2022 | 2022 | IL | |
The Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless INC
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$106K | 9 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | DC | |
| K Kind INC | $106K | 11 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
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$105K | 2 | 2023 | 2023 | FL | |
| C Columbia University in the City of New York Trustees of | $105K | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| C Childrens Hospital Foundation | $100K | 2 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| C Cabrini-Green Legal Aid Clinic INC | $100K | 7 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
Georgetown University
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$100K | 3 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | DC | |
| N Northwestern University | $100K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| U University of Miami | $100K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| U United Way of Metropolitan Chicago INC | $100K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
Advocates for Children of NY INC
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$100K | 2 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | NY | |
Coordinated Advice and Referral Program for Legal Services
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$100K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | IL | |
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$99K | 3 | 2020–2023 | 2023 | NY | |
Legal Aid at Work
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$96K | 7 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
| W Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights & Urban Affairs | $93K | 7 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
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$92K | 7 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | AL | |
| L Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia | $91K | 2 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
Legal Action Center of the City of New York INC
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$91K | 4 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
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American Heart Association INC
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$86K | 20 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | TX | |
New York City Partnership Foundation INC
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$86K | 4 | 2020–2023 | 2023 | NY | |
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund INC
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$85K | 4 | 2020–2023 | 2023 | NY | |
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$85K | 6 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | IL | |
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$85K | 2 | 2021–2023 | 2023 | CA | |
American Jewish Committee
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$85K | 2 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | NY | |
| I Individual recipient | $82K | 2 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
Shriver Center on Poverty Law
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$81K | 5 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | IL | |
| D Dallas Bar Association Community Service Fund | $80K | 7 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| S Steppenwolf Theater Co | $80K | 4 | 2021–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
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$80K | 2 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | DC | |
| L Lawyers Committee for Better Housing | $80K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
American Brain Tumor Association
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$80K | 5 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | IL | |
| M Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | $78K | 10 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
Anti-Defamation League
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$78K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
| I Individual recipient | $76K | 7 | 2021–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| B Business Council for International Understanding INC | $75K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
The Nalp Foundation for Law Career Research and Education
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$75K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | MA | |
American Australian Association INC
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$75K | 6 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
| I Individual recipient | $75K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
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$74K | 8 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
| D District of Columbia Access to Justice Foundation | $72K | 6 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| C Capital Area Immigrants Rights Coalition | $71K | 14 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| U United Jewish Appeal Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of NY INC | $69K | 10 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
Breaking Ground Housing Development Fund Corporation
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$68K | 6 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
| R Riverside Park Conservancy INC | $68K | 6 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| C Chicago United INC | $62K | 6 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | IL | |
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$62K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | DC | |
Haven for Hope of Bexar County
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$60K | 3 | 2021–2023 | 2023 | TX | |
Leadership Greater Chicago INC
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$60K | 3 | 2020–2022 | 2022 | IL | |
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$58K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
American Jewish University
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$58K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | CA | |
Whitman-Walker Clinic INC
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$56K | 7 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | DC | |
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$53K | 7 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | IL | |
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$53K | 9 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | IL | |
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$51K | 3 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | IL | |
| A Ann & Robert H Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago | $51K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
Swim Across America INC
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$50K | 3 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | NC | |
Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque
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$50K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | IA | |
United Way of New York City
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$50K | 2 | 2020 | 2020 | NY |
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