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Mary and Charles Sethness Charitable Foundation Grants

Private foundation · EIN 90-0103956 · IRS 990-PF filings through tax year 2025

Total grants paid
$1.1M
Grants reported
165
Typical grant
$4K
Future commitments
Not reported

Future commitments are grants the foundation has reported but not yet paid.

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Original filing text

Reported organization name: MARY AND CHARLES SETHNESS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

Giving by tax year

Year-level totals across every reported grant in this profile — a summary, not a filter. The awards further down are the largest individual grants across all years, not each year's complete list.

Tax yearGrants paidAmount
202590$581K
202475$515.5K

Where Mary and Charles Sethness Charitable Foundation gives

States of grant recipients reported on the foundation's 990-PF filings, by dollars received.

Largest reported grants

Historical awards reported to the IRS. These are examples of past giving, not open opportunities.

Center for Reproductive Rights

New York, NY

$45KTax year 2024

Unrestricted

Center for Reproductive Rights

New York, NY

$45KTax year 2025

Unrestricted

Depaul University

Chicago, IL

$30KTax year 2025

$5,000 unrestricted;$25,000 scholarships

University of Maryland Baltimore Fo

Baltimore, MD

$27KTax year 2024

School of nursing psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioner program

Depaul University

Chicago, IL

$25KTax year 2024

$5,000 unrestricted;$20,000 scholarships

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About this data

Figures are aggregated from Mary and Charles Sethness Charitable Foundation's IRS Form 990-PF electronic filings (2 filings on file, most recent tax year 2025). Totals reflect grants the foundation reported as paid, and can lag the current year because foundations file annually and often on extension. Source: IRS 990-PF filing on ProPublica. Raw e-file archive (ZIP) — a large IRS yearly archive download.

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