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Society of Actuaries Research Institute

Chicago, IL · EIN 36-2136422. Reported 127 grants totalling $6,061,618 to 67 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

67organizations funded
$25,000median reported grant
$6,061,618granted, 2021-2024
56%of grantees funded again the next year
13%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 67 distinct organizations, with 13% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 56% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $12,984 and $50,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $525,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
16 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
46 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
33 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
13 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
17 grants
$250,000 Or More
2 grants

1 of those grants was non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $375,000 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Milliman IncPortland, ME$798,808442024
Risk & Regulatory ConsultingFarmington, CT$554,580442024
Actuarial FoundationSchaumburg, IL$525,000112021
Ll Global IncWindsor, CT$423,400222023
Axene Health Partners LLCTemecula, CA$345,710442024
Matthew Greenwald & AssocWashington, DC$345,220332023
Mib IncBraintree, MA$262,091332023
Regents of the University of CaliforniaOakland, CA$260,256442024
PricewaterhousecoopersChicago, IL$176,666332024
Healthcare AnalyticsProvidence, RI$155,000332024
Deloitte Consulting LlpPhiladelphia, PA$151,750442024
Trustees of Purdue UniversityWest Lafayette, IN$116,637332024
Arizona State UniversityTempe, AZ$102,479442024
Research Foundation for the State University of New YorkAlbany, NY$94,735332023
Actuarial Research CorporationAnnandale, VA$80,000332024
Ernst & Young LlpChicago, IL$80,000112023
The FIVE70 GroupPittsburgh, PA$77,570112023
Rga Enterprise ServicesChesterfield, MO$76,120222024
OptumChicago, IL$75,000222023
Scor Global LifeCharlotte, NC$73,000332024
Rudolph Financial Consulting LLCPapillion, NE$70,400222024
C & R ResearchChicago, IL$64,400222023
Air Worldwide CorpBoston, MA$60,000112021
Santa Barbara ActuariesSanta Barbara, CA$59,220332023
Health Care Cost Institute IncWashington, DC$55,000222023
Hause Actuarial Solutions IncOverland Park, KS$50,000222024
Board of Trustees of Illinois State UniversityNormal, IL$48,347332023
Willis Tower WatsonAtlanta, GA$42,000112021
Rudolph Financial ConsultingElkhorn, NE$41,903222022
Vickie L Bajtelsmit Consulting LLCTinmath, CO$39,900112024
Pennsylvania State UniversityState College, PA$39,500222022
Howard UniversityWashington, DC$38,952222022
R a Guzzo LLCLaurel, MD$38,000222024
Hartman AnalyticsProvo, UT$37,500332024
Breakthrough Development CoSidell, LA$34,500332023
Board of Regents U of Wisc SystemMilwaukee, WI$33,750112022
O'leary Management Associates LLCNewbury Park, CA$33,500112023
Logica ResearchSan Francisco, CA$32,000112024
Miami UniversityOxford, OH$31,109222023
Wakely Consulting GroupTampa, FL$30,000112022
Weiner Edrich Brown IncNew York, NY$30,000222023
The Board of Trustees of the University of IllinoisUrbana, IL$29,451332023
Riscal Consulting LLCHinsdale, IL$25,771112024
Ll GlobalWindsor, CT$25,000112023
The Nebraska Medical CenterOmaha, NE$23,535112021
Rga Reinsurance Group of AmericaChesterfield, MO$23,000222024
Healthcare AnalyticsProvidence, RI$20,000112021
Cuanto Consulting LLCSan Francisco, CA$19,500222024
Dynata LLCShelton, CT$18,775112024
Financial FinesseSel Segundo, CA$18,000222022
NeurocernChicago, IL$17,000112021
Compass Transportation & TechnologyPotomac, MD$14,000112021
PricewaterhousecoopersChicago, IL$13,333112021
Trustees of Boston UniversityBoston, MA$12,500112024
Actuarial Risk Management LtdAustin, TX$12,000112023
Analytic SolutionsCamdenwyoming, DE$11,000112021
David Schraub Actuarial ConsultancyNorthbrook, IL$11,000112024
Good Must GrowWoodland Hills, CA$10,000112022
Hired Brains LLCSanta Fe, NM$10,000112023
Oliver Wyman Actuarial ConsultingAtlanta, GA$10,000112021
Vitality Group InternationalChicago, IL$10,000112021
Oliver Wyman Actuarial ConsultingAtlanta, GA$8,000112024
State University of Iowa FoundationIowa City, IA$8,000112024
Applied Stochastic LLCLouisville, KY$7,500112024
With You in MindLarchmont, NY$7,250112022
MontouxNew York, NY$7,000112024
Epeenoire LLCWestfield, IN$6,000112022

35 of 67 (52%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 7 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 9 of 67 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Education
6 orgs
Health Care
2 orgs
Community Improvement
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202132$1,835,215$21,500
202232$1,522,698$30,000
202335$1,661,773$25,000
202428$1,041,932$24,885

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

18% of its giving went to organizations in Illinois. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Illinois
$1.1M
Connecticut
$1.0M
Maine
$799K
California
$778K
District of Columbia
$439K
Massachusetts
$335K
Pennsylvania
$269K
Rhode Island
$175K

Down to the city

Portland, ME
$799K
Farmington, CT
$555K
Schaumburg, IL
$525K
Windsor, CT
$448K
Washington, DC
$439K
Chicago, IL
$436K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund4 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America4 shared recipientsThe Ayco Charitable Foundation4 shared recipientsTulsa Community Foundation4 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program3 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc3 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $25,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Illinois.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Society of Actuaries Research Institute's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 5 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 23 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 8770 W Bryn Mawr Ave 1000, Chicago, IL, 60631.

EIN 36-2136422 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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