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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 59-3792097

Roger & Chaz Ebert Foundation

A private foundation in Chicago, IL. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 3 grants and $17,500 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

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

  • Tax year 2025

    $17,500

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $211,499

  • Tax year 2024

    $8,000

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $18,188

  • Tax year 2023

    $0

    Grants listed
    0
    Assets, end of year
    $23,431

  • Tax year 2022

    $0

    Grants listed
    0
    Assets, end of year
    $20,535

  • Tax year 2021

    $0

    Grants listed
    0
    Assets, end of year
    $23,997

  • Tax year 2020

    $3,000

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $21,232

Grants paid in 2025

3 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Gene Siskel Film CenterChicago, IL

    To support the black harvest film festival.

    $10,000
  2. Fund for Innovative Tvmedia Burn ArchiveChicago, IL

    To support the documentary project "opening again...at a theater near you".

    $5,000
  3. Cinema Femme NFPChicago, IL

    To support the cinema femme feminist film festival.

    $2,500

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Arts and culture1 grant $2,500100% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. Illinois3 grants $17,500

Officers, directors and trustees

5 people as filed

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

  • Chaz EbertPRESIDENT & DIRECTOR Hours 3Pay $0
  • Sonia EvansVICE PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR Hours 0Pay $0
  • Eliot S EphraimSECRETARY & DIRECTOR Hours 0Pay $0
  • David M EphraimTREASURER Hours 0Pay $0
  • Raven EvansASSISTANT SECRETARY Hours 0Pay $0

The return

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