Sue Ling Gin Foundation Trust

• Sue Ling Gin Foundation Trust accepts no unsolicited requests and makes contributions only to preselected charitable organisations, so a cold application is unlikely to be considered and a small charity should not send one.
• Its recorded grants are chiefly described as general operations, with other purposes including youth projects, nursing and health, and civic engagement, so check that your work matches these before anything else.
• Half of its grants to organisations were $45,000 or less, and about 8 in 10 fall between $4,750 and $5,000,000, so a modest request sits within the typical range, though its largest grant was $10,000,000.
• Its grants are mainly in Illinois, principally Chicago, but no geographic focus is stated, so do not rule yourself out on location alone.
• Since 46% of its grant dollars to organisations went to recipients it had funded before, a relationship built over time appears to matter, and its giving has risen each year.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Commercial Club Foundation · The chicago police leadership academy
  $10,000,0002024 tax year
• Chicago CRED · General operations
  $7,000,0002024 tax year
• Field Museum · General operations
  $5,200,0002024 tax year
• CARA Collective · General operations
  $5,000,0002024 tax year
• DePaul University · Sue gin scholars initiative
  $3,000,0002024 tax year
• University of Chicago Crime Lab · Unengaged youth project
  $1,000,0002024 tax year
• Rush University Medical Center · General operations
  $958,0862024 tax year
• Chinese American Service League · General operations
  $550,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.