Funding search · EIN 363621711 · Des Plaines, IL

Helen and Curtis Pinnell Foundation

Name: Helen and Curtis Pinnell Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

210
grants reported: $1.9M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $5,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

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Top recipients

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Lyric Opera of Chicago4 grants · $335,000
Handel Week Incorporated4 grants · $100,000
Greater Chicago Food Depository4 grants · $95,000
Big Shoulders Fund4 grants · $85,000
Chicago Symphony Orchestra4 grants · $80,000
Pacific Garden Mission4 grants · $80,000
Facing Forward To End Homelessness4 grants · $63,000
Housing Forward4 grants · $63,000
Chicago Academy of Sciences3 grants · $60,000
Evangelical Child and Family Agency4 grants · $57,000

Giving over time

$370,000

2022

$376,500

2023

$549,500

2024

$647,500

2025

Grant history

The 100 largest of 210 grants.

$100,000
Lyric Opera of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2025
General charitable purposes
$100,000
Lyric Opera of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
General charitable purposes
$75,000
Lyric Opera of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
General charitable purposes
$60,000
Lyric Opera of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
General charitable purposes
$30,000
Greater Chicago Food Depository · Chicago, IL · 2025
General charitable purposes
$25,000
Big Shoulders Fund · Chicago, IL · 2025
General charitable purposes
$25,000
Handel Week Incorporated · Oak Park, IL · 2025
General charitable purposes
$25,000
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum · Chicago, IL · 2025
General charitable purposes
$25,000
Big Shoulders Fund · Chicago, IL · 2024
General charitable purposes
$25,000
Greater Chicago Food Depository · Chicago, IL · 2024
General charitable purposes
$25,000
Handel Week Incorporated · Oak Park, IL · 2024
General charitable purposes
$25,000
Handel Week Incorporated · Oak Park, IL · 2023
General charitable purposes
$25,000
Handel Week Incorporated · Oak Park, IL · 2022
General charitable purposes
$20,000
Chicago Symphony Orchestra · Chicago, IL · 2025
General charitable purposes
$20,000
Loaves Fishes of Rio Grande Valley · Harlingen, TX · 2025
General charitable purposes
$20,000
Pacific Garden Mission · Chicago, IL · 2025
General charitable purposes
$20,000
Chicago Academy of Sciences · Chicago, IL · 2024
General charitable purposes
$20,000
Chicago Symphony Orchestra · Chicago, IL · 2024
General charitable purposes
$20,000
Pacific Garden Mission · Chicago, IL · 2024
General charitable purposes
$20,000
Big Shoulders Fund · Chicago, IL · 2023
General charitable purposes
$20,000
Chicago Academy of Sciences · Chicago, IL · 2023
General charitable purposes
$20,000
Chicago Symphony Orchestra · Chicago, IL · 2023
General charitable purposes
$20,000
Greater Chicago Food Depository · Chicago, IL · 2023
General charitable purposes
$20,000
Pacific Garden Mission · Chicago, IL · 2023
General charitable purposes
$20,000
Chicago Academy of Sciences · Chicago, IL · 2022
General charitable purposes
$20,000
Chicago Symphony Orchestra · Chicago, IL · 2022
General charitable purposes
$20,000
Greater Chicago Food Depository · Chicago, IL · 2022
General charitable purposes
$20,000
Pacific Garden Mission · Chicago, IL · 2022
General charitable purposes
$18,000
Evangelical Child and Family Agency · Wheaton, IL · 2025
General charitable purposes
$18,000
Facing Forward To End Homelessness · Chicago, IL · 2025
General charitable purposes
$18,000
Housing Forward · Maywood, IL · 2025
General charitable purposes
$15,000
Beyond Hunger · Oak Park, IL · 2025
General charitable purposes
$15,000
Haymarket Opera Company · Chicago, IL · 2025
General charitable purposes
$15,000
Misericordia Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2025
General charitable purposes
$15,000
Window To the World Communications · Chicago, IL · 2025
General charitable purposes
$15,000
Beyond Hunger · Oak Park, IL · 2024
General charitable purposes
$15,000
Evangelical Child and Family Agency · Wheaton, IL · 2024
General charitable purposes
$15,000
Facing Forward To End Homelessness · Chicago, IL · 2024
General charitable purposes
$15,000
Housing Forward · Maywood, IL · 2024
General charitable purposes
$15,000
Misericordia Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2024
General charitable purposes
$15,000
Window To the World Communications · Chicago, IL · 2024
General charitable purposes
$15,000
Facing Forward To End Homelessness · Chicago, IL · 2023
General charitable purposes
$15,000
Housing Forward · Maywood, IL · 2023
General charitable purposes
$15,000
Big Shoulders Fund · Chicago, IL · 2022
General charitable purposes
$15,000
Facing Forward To End Homelessness · Chicago, IL · 2022
General charitable purposes
$15,000
Housing Forward · Maywood, IL · 2022
General charitable purposes
$12,000
Feed My Starving Children · Coon Rapids, MN · 2025
General charitable purposes
$12,000
The Haymarket Opera Company Nfp · Chicago, IL · 2024
General charitable purposes
$12,000
Evangelical Child and Family Agency · Wheaton, IL · 2023
General charitable purposes
$12,000
Evangelical Child and Family Agency · Wheaton, IL · 2022
General charitable purposes
$12,000
Window To the World Communications · Chicago, IL · 2022
General charitable purposes
$10,000
Children'S Bereavement Center of Rg · Harlingen, TX · 2025
General charitable purposes
$10,000
Family Crisis Center · Harlingen, TX · 2025
General charitable purposes
$10,000
Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley · Pharr, TX · 2025
General charitable purposes
$10,000
Maywood Fine Arts Association · Maywood, IL · 2025
General charitable purposes
$10,000
Midwest Shelter for Homeless Vetera · Wheaton, IL · 2025
General charitable purposes
$10,000
Sea Turtle · South Padre Island, TX · 2025
General charitable purposes
$10,000
South Padre Island Birding Nature C · South Padre Island, TX · 2025
General charitable purposes
$10,000
Wycliffe Bible Translators · Orlando, FL · 2025
General charitable purposes
$10,000
Feed My Starving Children · Coon Rapids, MN · 2024
General charitable purposes
$10,000
Loaves Fishes of Rio Grande Valley · Harlingen, TX · 2024
General charitable purposes
$10,000
Sea Turtle · South Padre Island, TX · 2024
General charitable purposes
$10,000
South Padre Island Birding Nature C · South Padre Island, TX · 2024
General charitable purposes
$10,000
Wycliffe Bible Translators · Orlando, FL · 2024
General charitable purposes
$10,000
Beyond Hunger · Oak Park, IL · 2023
General charitable purposes
$10,000
Feed My Starving Children · Coon Rapids, MN · 2023
General charitable purposes
$10,000
Misericordia Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2023
General charitable purposes
$10,000
The Haymarket Opera Company Nfp · Chicago, IL · 2023
General charitable purposes
$10,000
Wycliffe Bible Translators · Orlando, FL · 2023
General charitable purposes
$10,000
Beyond Hunger · Oak Park, IL · 2022
General charitable purposes
$10,000
Feed My Starving Children · Coon Rapids, MN · 2022
General charitable purposes
$10,000
Misericordia Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2022
General charitable purposes
$10,000
Salvation Army · Chicago, IL · 2022
General charitable purposes
$10,000
Wycliffe Bible Translators · Orlando, FL · 2022
General charitable purposes
$8,000
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis · St Louis, MO · 2025
General charitable purposes
$8,000
The Bloc · Chicago, IL · 2025
General charitable purposes
$8,000
World Relief Chicagoland · Carol Stream, IL · 2025
General charitable purposes
$8,000
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis · St Louis, MO · 2024
General charitable purposes
$8,000
Loaves Fishes of Rio Grande Valley · Harlingen, TX · 2023
General charitable purposes
$8,000
Loaves Fishes of Rio Grande Valley · Harlingen, TX · 2022
General charitable purposes
$7,500
Sit Stay Read · Chicago, IL · 2022
General charitable purposes
$7,000
Chicago Botanic Garden · Glencoe, IL · 2025
General charitable purposes
$7,000
Chicago Opera Theater · Chicago, IL · 2025
General chritable purposes
$7,000
Chicago Zoological Society · Brookfield, IL · 2025
General charitable purposes
$7,000
Morton Arboretum · Lisle, IL · 2025
General charitable purposes
$7,000
Northern Illinois Food Bank · Geneva, IL · 2025
General chritable purposes
$7,000
Chicago Arts and Music Project · Oak Park, IL · 2024
General charitable purposes
$7,000
Chicago Horticultural Society · Glencoe, IL · 2024
General charitable purposes
$7,000
Chicago Opera Theater · Chicago, IL · 2024
General chritable purposes
$7,000
Chicago Zoological Society · Brookfield, IL · 2024
General charitable purposes
$7,000
Maywood Fine Arts Association · Maywood, IL · 2024
General charitable purposes
$7,000
Midwest Shelter for Homeless Vetera · Wheaton, IL · 2024
General charitable purposes
$7,000
Window To the World Communications · Chicago, IL · 2023
General charitable purposes
$7,000
The Haymarket Opera Company Nfp · Chicago, IL · 2022
General charitable purposes
$6,000
The Bloc · Chicago, IL · 2024
General charitable purposes
$6,000
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis · St Louis, MO · 2023
General charitable purposes
$6,000
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis · St Louis, MO · 2022
General charitable purposes
$5,000
Adler Planetarium · Chicago, IL · 2025
General charitable purposes
$5,000
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2025
General charitable purposes
$5,000
Field Museum · Chicago, IL · 2025
General charitable purposes

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.