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Al and Carole Feiger Family Foundation at a glance

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Al and Carole Feiger Family Foundation

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.

$45k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$67kInternational$50kHealth$46kPhilanthropy$25kReligion$21kEducation$9kHuman Services$1kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$811k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center$15,000
Jewish United Fund$10,000
Wander Through Wonder Academy$5,000
Jewish Colorado$5,000
Hadassah$2,500
AM Yisrael Conservative Congregation$2,487
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$2,000
Jewish National Fund$1,800
Jewish Sacred Society$500
JCC Chicago$360
Richard Schoenstadt Memorial Foundation$250
TPS$250
The Ark$180
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Jewish Child & Family Services: $100 → 14%JCC Chicago: $600 → 14%JCC Chicago: $360 → 14%JCC Chicago: $250 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Al and Carole Feiger Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Al and Carole Feiger Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.4% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$178k · 21 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
20

Total granted

$178k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+16%

Still filing today

48%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    4× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +13%
  • TB
    THE BRAIN ANEURYSM FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +67%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    5× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • RZ
    ROCHELLE ZELL JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • NK
    NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +17%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
3
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Jewish Life Foundation
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5
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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6
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
7
Sherit Isroel
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8
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago

Federation amplifies our collective strength to make the world a better place for everyone. we assist people in need, impact chicagoans of all faiths; support israel and the jewish people worldwide; respond swiftly to crises; cultivate…

Philanthropy
9
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
10
Greater Miami Hillel Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

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11
Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc

The jewish federation of greater atlanta cares for, connects and strengthens our jewish community throughout greater atlanta, israel and the world.

Philanthropy
12
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Harold Grinspoon Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
17/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Hadassah: $24,360 · OtherHadassahIllinois Holocaust Museum: $22,300 · OtherIllinois Holocaust MuseumIndividual grant recipient: $5,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $5,125 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWANDER THROUGH WONDER ACADEMY: $5,000 · OtherWANDER THROUGH WONDER ACADEMYAM Yisrael Conservative Congregation: $3,927 · OtherAmerican Cancer Society: $3,000 · Other+22 more: $13,615 · Other+22 moreJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $18,100 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KE…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $15,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DE…ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $13,750 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANC…+2 more: $750 · InternationalHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $32,600 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL …The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $4,600 · Arts & CultureThe United States H…FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC: $1,486 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $540 · Arts & CultureJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $22,800 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FU…JEWISHColorado: $7,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISHColoradoTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC: $1,500 · PhilanthropyTHE BRAIN ANEURYSM FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · HealthBRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthROCHELLE ZELL JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL: $3,500 · EducationJEWISH SACRED SOCIETY INC: $1,950 · Religion
Other$82,827International$47,600Arts & Culture$39,226Philanthropy$31,800Health$16,000Education$3,500Religion$1,950

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $32,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $22,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $18,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRAIN ANEURYSM FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $13,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISHColorado: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $4,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROCHELLE ZELL JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH SACRED SOCIETY INC: $1,950 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC: $1,486 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Community Centers of Chicago: $1,210 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY: $540 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAOT CHITIM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENERAL ISRAEL ORPHAN HOME FOR GIRLS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LONGBOAT KEY EDUCATION CENTER INC: $135 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Child and Family Services: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

AbbVie FoundationDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
AbbVie FoundationIL12.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Al and Carole Feiger Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Al and Carole Feiger Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Florida Studio Theatre Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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