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Alfred J and Lotte Gruen Foundation at a glance

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Alfred J and Lotte Gruen 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.

$133k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$194kHealth$192kEducation$124kPhilanthropy$115kMembership Benefit$74kArts & Culture$38kRecreation & Sports$30kCivil Rights$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $122k
$14,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS$40,000
CHICAGO COALITION FOR FAMILY BUILDI$29,400
NORTH SURBURBAN SYNAGOGUE BETH EL$15,000
AM SHALOM$14,000
ISAAC M WISE TEMPLE$14,000
THE TOWN SCHOOL$10,000
CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE$6,400
NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL$3,500
NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO$900
02The need
03

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 (FY17–17, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MISERICORDIA HOMES: $3k → 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
OH
PA
MD
AZ
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 20% of Alfred J and Lotte Gruen Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 58% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 46%.

Alfred J and Lotte Gruen Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$420k · 11 repeat orgs$352k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
24

Total granted

$420k
$333k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+14%

Still filing today

45%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyCivil RightsRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CC
    CHICAGO COALITION FOR FAMILY BUILDING
    4× · 2022–2025 · $84k · revenue +146%
  • TN
    THE NEW LIGHT CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2018–2021 · $74k · revenue +12%
  • TF
    THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $43k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +13%
  • BR
    Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue -58%
  • GC
    GEMILUTH CHESED LOTTE GRUEN FUND OF EZRA-HABONIM JEWISH CONGREGATION
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
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.

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New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
4
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
5
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
6
The New York and Presbyterian Hospital

To be a leader in the provision of world class patient care, teaching, research, and service to local, state, national, and international communities. newyork-presbyterian hospital is one of the nation's most comprehensive, integrated…

Health
7
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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8
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
9
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
10
Nyu Langone Hospitals

The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…

Health
11
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
12
National Jewish Health

National Jewish Health's mission since 1899 is to heal, discover and educate as a preeminent healthcare institution. We serve by providing the best integrated and innovative care for patients and their families; by understanding and…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Campaign to Save Lives. 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

22 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. 22 of the 39 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
14/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCYLDE: $58,334 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCYLDETHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $43,284 · OtherTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCAM SHALOM: $40,350 · OtherAM SHALOMISAAC M WISE TEMPLE: $38,000 · OtherISAAC M WISE TEMPLEGEMILUTH CHESED LOTTE GRUEN FUND OF EZRA-HABONIM JEWISH CONGREGATION: $30,000 · OtherGEMILUTH CHESED LOTTE GRUEN FUND OF EZRA-HABONIM JEWIS…THE TOWN SCHOOL INC: $21,934 · OtherTHE TOWN SCHOOL INCMAGEN DAVID ADOM: $20,000 · OtherCENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $17,200 · OtherEZRA-HABONIM JEWISH CONGREGATION (GEMILUTH CHESED-LOTTE GRUEN FUND): $15,500 · OtherNORTH SUBURBAN SYNAGOGUE BETH EL: $15,000 · OtherCHICAGO SINAI CONGREGATION: $15,000 · Other+12 more: $60,700 · Other+12 moreCHICAGO COALITION FOR FAMILY BUILDING: $84,018 · HealthCHICAGO COALITION …Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $20,000 · HealthBoca Raton Regiona…LUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · HealthLUNGEVITY FOUNDATI…Endeavor Health Clinical Operations: $10,000 · HealthEndeavor Health Cl…THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $5,000 · HealthJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $100,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FU…JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATIO…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $4,534 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW LIGHT CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $74,175 · Membership BenefitTHE NEW LI…Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $40,000 · Community ImprovementNorthwestern University: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsMACCABI USA INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $3,500 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $2,500 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $900 · Arts & Culture
Other$375,302Health$131,018Philanthropy$114,534Membership Benefit$74,175Community Improvement$40,000Recreation & Sports$30,000Arts & Culture$16,900

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION FOR FAMILY BUILDING: $84,018 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetTHE NEW LIGHT CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $74,175 over 2y, 21% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $43,284 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TOWN SCHOOL INC: $21,934 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACCABI USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $4,534 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISERICORDIA HOME: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCampaign To Save Lives: $500 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

Jewish Federation of …Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Alfred J and Lotte Gruen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alfred J and Lotte Gruen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Alfred J and Lotte Gruen Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Alfred J and Lotte Gruen Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 39 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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