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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 36-3342443

Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation

A private foundation in Chicago, IL. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 1 grant and $612,900 paid in grants.

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Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Preselected only

The return checks the box saying the foundation gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Assets and giving by year

8 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2025

    $612,900

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $183,500

  • Tax year 2024

    $756,100

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $279,469

  • Tax year 2023

    $701,200

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $341,282

  • Tax year 2022

    $666,500

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $404,978

  • Tax year 2021

    $797,000

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $504,955

  • Tax year 2020

    $3,052,500

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $526,500

  • Tax year 2019

    $4,532,100

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $602,531

  • Tax year 2018

    $2,763,300

    Grants listed
    In an attachment
    Assets, end of year
    $677,746

Grants paid in 2025

1 grant, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Chamber Opera ChicagoChicago, IL

    Performing arts

    $455,000

  2. This return lists its grants in an attachment that is not in the IRS e-file: $157,900 in all.

Where the money goes

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. Illinois1 grant $455,000

Officers, directors and trustees

3 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Barre SeidPRES/TREAS Hours 0Pay $0
  • Barbara Landis-SeidSECY/VP Hours 1Pay $0
  • Joan FrontczakVP/ASST SECY Hours 1Pay $0

The return

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