Kott Memorial Charitable Trust Grants
Funding Amount
Not stated
Deadline
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Grant Type
Foundation
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Overview
Russell & Josephine Kott
The Russell & Josephine Kott Memorial Charitable Trust honors the lives of Russell and Josephine Kott. Their bequest created a resource that provides funding each year to support a range of charitable organizations that improve the lives of individuals, with an emphasis on gerontology. The Trust focuses on opportunities to provide grants that enhance services for seniors through educational internships, quality programs and capacity building for agencies serving seniors.
Service to Seniors
The impact of our grants can be felt in a variety of ways. Grants support programs in health and wellness, provision of basic needs, and community outreach and engagement. Grants for academic programs offer caregivers and nursing students improved education, training and meaningful research. Grants have also provided professional advocacy in the form of legal services and expanded training for nonprofit professionals who advise seniors on health care options.
Grant funding to charitable organizations that improve the livelihood of individuals, especially through education or medical services, with an emphasis on such services for the elderly.
Kott Memorial Charitable Trust Grants
Grant funding to charitable organizations that improve the livelihood of individuals, especially through education or medical services, with an emphasis on such services for older adults.
Eligibility
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What Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2025
- Grants in 2025
- 73
- Total given
- $2.62M
- Median grant
- $15K
- Range
- $5,250–$535K
- By dollars: Illinois 74%, Michigan 20%, Massachusetts 2%. Top recipient cities: Oak Park, IL; Chicago, IL; Maywood, IL.
- 100% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 33% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
Lawrence Technological University · Southfield, MI
To support general program services
$535K
Heph Foundation · Oak Park, IL
To support general program services
$487K
Animal Care League · Oak Park, IL
To support general program services
$170K
Chicago Public Media Inc · Chicago, IL
To support general program services
$125K
Thrive Counseling Center · Oak Park, IL
To support general program services
$107K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Nonprofits
- Foundation
- Seniors
- Healthcare
- Professional development
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