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The Sidley Austin Foundation

Name: The Sidley Austin 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.

1,174
grants reported: $14.5M
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.

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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.

Legal Aid Society4 grants · $1.3M
Legal Aid Chicago5 grants · $847,000
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago4 grants · $550,000
Public Counsel1 grant · $517,408
Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia13 grants · $487,936
Kaboom11 grants · $385,000
Naacp Legal Defense and Educational Fund6 grants · $300,600
Equal Justice Works4 grants · $271,000
Northwestern University9 grants · $224,100
Youth Renewal Fund7 grants · $216,250

Giving over time

$2.9M

2022

$3.9M

2023

$3.7M

2024

$4.0M

2025

Grant history

The 100 largest of 1,174 grants.

$517,408
Public Counsel · Los Angeles, CA · 2025
General support
$393,750
Legal Aid Society · New York, NY · 2025
General support
$357,750
Legal Aid Society · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$305,000
Legal Aid Society · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$264,600
Legal Aid Society · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$250,000
Legal Aid Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
General support
$245,000
Legal Aid Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
General support
$200,000
Legal Aid Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
General support
$150,000
Legal Aid Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2025
General support
$150,000
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
General support
$150,000
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
General support
$150,000
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
General support
$101,500
Kaboom · Bethesda, MD · 2025
General support
$100,000
Northwestern Memorial Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2025
General support
$100,000
Northwestern University · Chicago, IL · 2025
General support
$100,000
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2025
General support
$100,000
University of Miami · Miami, FL · 2025
General support
$100,000
Legal Services Corporation · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$100,000
Northwestern University · Chicago, IL · 2024
General support
$100,000
Columbia University in the City of New York Trustees of · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$100,000
Naacp Legal Defense and Educational Fund · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$100,000
Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$98,000
Kaboom · Bethesda, MD · 2024
General support
$90,000
Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia · Washington, DC · 2025
General support
$90,000
Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$85,000
Chicago Symphony Orchestra · Chicago, IL · 2022
General support
$82,956
Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia · Washington, DC · 2023
General support
$82,000
Equal Justice Works · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$75,000
Business Council for International Understanding · New York, NY · 2025
General support
$75,000
Naacp Legal Defense and Educational Fund · New York, NY · 2025
General support
$75,000
Naacp Legal Defense and Educational Fund · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$75,000
Teak Fellowship · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$75,000
Teak Fellowship · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$74,000
Equal Justice Works · Washington, DC · 2023
General support
$74,000
Equal Justice Works · Washington, DC · 2022
General support
$63,000
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$60,000
Commercial Club Civic Committee Charitable Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2025
General support
$60,000
Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$60,000
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$58,000
American Jewish University · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
$55,000
University of Miami · Coral Gables, FL · 2023
General support
$54,080
Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia · Washington, DC · 2022
General support
$50,000
Hnba Via - Vision in Action - Fund · Washington, DC · 2025
General support
$50,000
Kind · Washington, DC · 2025
General support
$50,000
Metropolitan Family Services · Chicago, IL · 2025
General support
$50,000
Broadway Housing Communities · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$50,000
Commercial Club Civic Committee Charitable Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2024
General support
$50,000
Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Dubuque, IA · 2024
General support
$50,000
Every Mother Counts · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$50,000
Hnba Via - Vision in Action - Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$50,000
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
General support
$50,000
Metropolitan Family Services · Chicago, IL · 2024
General support
$50,000
Commercial Club Civic Committee Charitable Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2023
General support
$50,000
Crohn'S & Colitis Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
General support
$50,000
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association · Arlington, VA · 2023
General support
$50,000
Hnba Via - Vision in Action - Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
General support
$50,000
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
General support
$50,000
Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia · Washington, DC · 2023
General support
$50,000
Legal Services Corporation · Washington, DC · 2023
General support
$50,000
Metropolitan Family Services · Chicago, IL · 2023
General support
$50,000
Naacp Legal Defense and Educational Fund · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$50,000
University of Miami · Coral Gables, FL · 2023
General support
$50,000
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights · Chicago, IL · 2022
General support
$50,000
International Rescue Committee · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$50,000
Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia · Washington, DC · 2022
General support
$50,000
Metropolitan Family Services · Chicago, IL · 2022
General support
$49,000
Kaboom · Bethesda, MD · 2025
General support
$45,000
Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law · Chicago, IL · 2025
General support
$45,000
Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law · Chicago, IL · 2024
General support
$45,000
Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law · Chicago, IL · 2023
General support
$45,000
Public Interest Law Initiative · Chicago, IL · 2023
General support
$45,000
Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law · Chicago, IL · 2022
General support
$44,000
Commercial Club Civic Committee Charitable Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2022
General support
$41,250
Youth Renewal Fund · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$41,000
Equal Justice Works · Washington, DC · 2025
General support
$40,000
American Law Institute · Philadelphia, PA · 2025
General support
$40,000
Childrens Law Center Incorporated · Washington, DC · 2025
General support
$40,000
American Law Institute · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
General support
$40,000
Childrens Law Center Incorporated · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$40,000
American Law Institute · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
General support
$40,000
Anti-Defamation League · Dallas, TX · 2023
General support
$37,500
Pef Israel Endowment Funds · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$37,500
Youth Renewal Fund · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$37,500
Youth Renewal Fund · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$36,250
Kaboom · Bethesda, MD · 2025
General support
$35,840
National Veterans Legal Services Program · Arlington, VA · 2024
General support
$35,000
Kaboom · Washington, DC · 2023
General support
$35,000
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund · Chicago, IL · 2023
General support
$35,000
Law Foundation of Silicon Valley · San Jose, CA · 2023
General support
$35,000
New York City Partnership Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$35,000
Lawyers Alliance for New York · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$35,000
New York City Partnership Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$35,000
Public Interest Law Initiative · Chicago, IL · 2022
General support
$32,500
The District of Columbia Bar Foundation · Washington, DC · 2025
General support
$30,000
Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2025
General support
$30,000
National Veterans Legal Services Program · Arlington, VA · 2025
General support
$30,000
Sharsheret · Teaneck, NJ · 2025
General support
$30,000
Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2024
General support
$30,000
The District of Columbia Bar Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$30,000
Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2023
General 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.