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Wl & Louise Seymour Endowment XXXXX3004

Chicago, IL · EIN 74-6315820. Reported 38 grants totalling $816,280 to 16 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$20,000median grant
$816,280granted, 2021-2024
16organizations funded
67%of grantees funded again the next year
$4,707,286assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Wl & Louise Seymour Endowment XXXXX3004 did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $20,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $6,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $75,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
3 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
2 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
6 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
14 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
9 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
4 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
El Paso Child Guidance Center IncEl Paso, TX$173,000332023
Centro De Salud Familiar La Fe IncEl Paso, TX$170,000332024
Paso Del Norte Childrens Development CenterEl Paso, TX$104,000442024
El Pasoans Fighting Hunger General SupportEl Paso, TX$85,000332024
Opportunity Center for the HomelessEl Paso, TX$80,000332024
Alzheimers AssociationEl Paso, TX$58,500442024
Children's Grief Center of El PasoEl Paso, TX$30,350222024
City of El Paso - El Paso Museum of ArtEl Paso, TX$28,500332024
Center Against Sexual and Family ViolenceEl Paso, TX$20,000222024
El Paso Children's Hospital FoundationEl Paso, TX$20,000112021
Hospice of El Paso IncEl Paso, TX$15,000112022
El Paso Museum of ArtEl Paso, TX$10,000112021
El Paso Center for Children IncEl Paso, TX$9,200222024
El Paso Symphony OrchestraEl Paso, TX$5,230112024
CASA of El PasoEl Paso, TX$5,000112022
Sul Ross State UniversityAlpine, TX$2,500442024

11 of 16 (69%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 67%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Health Care
8 grants
Human Services
4 grants
Education
4 grants
Mental Health
2 grants
Arts & Culture
1 grant
Crime & Legal
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20219$194,500$20,000
20229$222,350$20,000
20239$186,000$20,000
202411$213,430$10,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

El Paso, TX
$814K
Alpine, TX
$2K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

El Paso Community Foundation13 shared recipientsPaso Del Norte Community Foundation10 shared recipientsCesle C & Mamie F Dues Foundation XXXXX40037 shared recipientsUnited Way of El Paso County6 shared recipientsThe Hunt Family Foundation5 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc5 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $20,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Texas.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Wl & Louise Seymour Endowment XXXXX3004's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 10 S Dearborn IL1-0111, Chicago, IL, 60603. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 74-6315820 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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