· Private foundation
Adele & Willard Gidwitz Family Foundatio
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of ADELE & WILLARD GIDWITZ FAMILY FOUNDATIO’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $114k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $164k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC | $34,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| ARTS & LETTERS 305 UNITED | $25,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| GRANVILLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| FD 13 RESIDENCY FOR THE ARTS | $9,500 |
| AMHERST EARLY MUSIC | $8,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $7,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| EARLY MUSIC AMERICA | $5,000 |
| KARATEDO HONMA DOJO | $5,000 |
| BETH EL SYNAGOGUE | $5,000 |
| WUNC | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $245k · revenue +145%
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $127k · revenue +86%
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- TBTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +7%
- CSChicago Symphony Orchestragraduatedone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +58%
- TPTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Sura's mission is to advance collaborative research and education and to strengthen the scientific capabilities of its members and our nation.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To receive and hold the endowment of the north carolina symphony society, inc. (the "society"), solicit additions to the endowment, safeguard assets, and expend funds for the exclusive use and benefit of the society.
To enrich and connect individuals in the greater raleigh community through intimate and exceptional chamber music experiences. we are committed to presenting world class artists performing music of the highest caliber, providing…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walker Art Center and the most unlike its peers is People Advocating Recovery Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 64 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GRANVILLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds AMHERST EARLY MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds DURHAM-CHAPEL HILL JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF BEIJING INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds WOMENS VOICES CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WALKER ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE ENO RIVER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY MUSIC AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds DURHAM COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTEES INC ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DURHAM ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Dharma Retreat Center ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds The Exchange Clubs Child Abuse Prevention Center ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - TRIANGLE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · Fox Family Foundation Inc · Duke University · Ibm International Foundation · Devonwood Foundation 009606-007 · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Duke Energy Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Adele & Willard Gidwitz Family Foundatio funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.