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The Regenstein Foundation

Name: The Regenstein Foundation grants, 2022–2024
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.

94
grants reported: $14.9M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $27,625
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Rush University Medical Center4 grants · $3.1M
Shedd Aquarium3 grants · $2.5M
Chicago Botanic Garden4 grants · $1.8M
Lincoln Park Zoo3 grants · $1.3M
Northwestern Memorial Foundation4 grants · $1.2M
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children'S Hospital2 grants · $1.1M
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children'S2 grants · $1.1M
Shirley Ryan Ability Lab3 grants · $635,000
Gulfshore Playhouse3 grants · $250,000
Nch Healthcare3 grants · $200,000

Giving over time

$3.3M

2022

$7.1M

2023

$4.5M

2024

Grant history

All 94 reported grants, largest first.

$1.5M
Shedd Aquarium · Chicago, IL · 2022
Operational support
$1.1M
Lincoln Park Zoo · Chicago, IL · 2023
Operational support
$1.1M
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children'S Hospital · Chicago, IL · 2023
Operational support
$1.0M
Rush University Medical Center · Chicago, IL · 2023
Operational support
$1.0M
Rush University Medical Center · Chicago, IL · 2022
Operational support
$1.0M
Shedd Aquarium · Chicago, IL · 2023
Operational support
$1.0M
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children'S · Chicago, IL · 2024
Operational support
$1.0M
Rush University Medical Center · Chicago, IL · 2024
Operational support
$860,000
Chicago Botanic Garden · Glencoe, IL · 2023
Operational support
$800,000
Chicago Botanic Garden · Glenco, IL · 2024
Operational support
$555,000
Shirley Ryan Ability Lab · Chicago, IL · 2023
Operational support
$550,000
Northwestern Memorial Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2023
Operational support
$500,000
Northwestern Memorial Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2024
Operational support
$150,000
Gulfshore Playhouse · Naples, FL · 2024
Operational support
$150,000
Northwestern Memorial Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2024
Operational support
$125,000
Nch Healthcare · Naples, FL · 2023
Operational support
$125,000
Univeristy of Illinois · Chicago, IL · 2023
Operational support
$112,000
Lincoln Park Zoo · Chicago, IL · 2024
Operational support
$100,000
Field Museum · Chicago, IL · 2024
Operational support
$75,000
Gulfshore Playhouse · Naples, FL · 2023
Operational support
$75,000
The Everglades Foundation · Palmetto Bay, FL · 2023
Operational support
$75,000
Field Museum · Chicago, IL · 2022
Operational support
$70,000
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children'S · Chicago, IL · 2024
Operational support
$65,000
Lincoln Park Zoo · Chicago, IL · 2022
Operational support
$60,000
Chicago Botanic Garden · Glenco, IL · 2024
Operational support
$55,000
University of Illinois · Chicago, IL · 2024
Operational support
$50,000
Greater Chicago Food Depository · Chicago, IL · 2024
Operational support
$50,000
Jewish United Federation of · Chicago, IL · 2024
Operational support
$50,000
Naples Zoo · Naples, FL · 2024
Operational support
$50,000
Nch Healthcare · Naples, FL · 2024
Operational support
$50,000
Jewish United Feration of Metropolitan Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
Operational support
$50,000
Naples Zoo · Naples, FL · 2023
Operational support
$50,000
American Red Cross · Washington, DC · 2022
Operational support
$50,000
Greater Chicago Food Depository · Chicago, IL · 2022
Operational support
$48,000
Chicago Zoological Society · Brookfield, IL · 2024
Operational support
$45,000
Shirley Ryan Ability Lab · Chicago, IL · 2024
Operational support
$45,000
Chicago Botanic Garden · Glencoe, IL · 2022
Operational support
$40,000
Conservancy of Southwest Florida · Naples, FL · 2023
Operational support
$40,000
Conservancy of Southwest Florida · Naples, FL · 2022
Operational support
$35,000
Rush University Medical Center · Chicago, IL · 2024
Operational support
$35,000
Shirley Ryan Ability Lab · Chicago, IL · 2022
Operational support
$30,000
Smithsonian National Zoological · Washington, DC · 2024
Operational support
$30,000
Friends of Catherine and Channel Lakes · Antioch, IL · 2023
Operational support
$30,000
Smithsonian National Zoological Park · Washington, DC · 2023
Operational support
$30,000
Naples Zoo · Naples, FL · 2022
Operational support
$30,000
Northwestern Memorial Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2022
Operational support
$28,000
Chicago Zoological Society · Brookfield, IL · 2023
Operational support
$27,250
Smithsonian National Zoological Park · Washington, DC · 2022
Operational support
$25,000
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Operational support
$25,000
Philharmonic Center for the Arts · Naples, FL · 2024
Operational support
$25,000
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
Operational support
$25,000
Chicago Symphony Orchestra · Chicago, IL · 2023
Operational support
$25,000
Greater Chicago Food Depository · Chicago, IL · 2023
Operational support
$25,000
Philharmonic Center of the Arts · Naples, FL · 2023
Operational support
$25,000
The Conservation Fund · Arlington, VA · 2023
Operational support
$25,000
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children'S Hospital · Chicago, IL · 2022
Operational support
$25,000
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
Operational support
$25,000
Chicago Symphony Orchestra · Chicago, IL · 2022
Operational support
$25,000
Chicago Zoological Society · Brookfield, IL · 2022
Operational support
$25,000
Gulfshore Playhouse · Naples, FL · 2022
Operational support
$25,000
Nch Healthcare · Naples, FL · 2022
Operational support
$25,000
Philharmonic Center of the Arts · Naples, FL · 2022
Operational support
$20,000
American Red Cross · Washington, DC · 2024
Operational support
$20,000
Friends of Catherine and Channel · Antioch, IL · 2024
Operational support
$20,000
Rebuilding Exchange · Chicago, IL · 2023
Operational support
$20,000
Univeristy of Illinois · Chicago, IL · 2022
Operational support
$20,000
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
Operational support
$15,000
Wounded Warrior Project · Topeka, KS · 2024
Operational support
$15,000
American Red Cross · Washington, DC · 2023
Operational support
$15,000
Brookfield Zoo · Brookfield, IL · 2023
Operational support
$15,000
Wounded Warrior · Topeka, KS · 2023
Operational support
$15,000
Evanston Rebuilding Warehouse · Evanston, IL · 2022
Operational support
$15,000
Wounded Warrior · Topeka, KS · 2022
Operational support
$10,000
Conservancy of Southwest Florida · Naples, FL · 2024
Operational support
$10,000
For Autistic Kids Foundation · Glenview, IL · 2024
Operational support
$10,000
Millennium Park Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2024
Operational support
$10,000
Parliament of World'S Religions · Chicago, IL · 2024
Operational support
$10,000
Rebuilding Exchange · Chicago, IL · 2024
Operational support
$10,000
Shedd Aquarium · Chicago, IL · 2024
Operational support
$10,000
The Service Club of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Operational support
$10,000
Millennium Park Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2023
Operational support
$10,000
The Arc of Greater New Orleans · Metairie, LA · 2023
Operational support
$10,000
The Service Club of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
Operational support
$10,000
Millennium Park Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2022
Operational support
$10,000
The Arc of Greater New Orleans · Metairie, LA · 2022
Operational support
$5,000
Holocaust Museum of Southwest · Naples, FL · 2024
Operational support
$5,000
Naples Botanical Garden · Naples, FL · 2024
Operational support
$5,000
Vander Cook College of Music · Chicago, IL · 2024
Operational support
$5,000
Holocaust Museum of Southwest Florida · Naples, FL · 2023
Operational support
$5,000
Naples Botanical Garden · Naples, FL · 2023
Operational support
$5,000
Vander Cook College of Music · Chicago, IL · 2023
Operational support
$4,500
Vander Cook College of Music · Chicago, IL · 2022
Operational support
$1,000
Holocaust Museum of Southwest Florida · Naples, FL · 2022
Operational support
$1,000
Naples Botanical Garden · Naples, FL · 2022
Operational support

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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.