· Private foundation
Allan W Chernick Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADAM | $10,000 |
| YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH | $7,000 |
| BNAI MOSHE ANNUAL GIVING | $6,018 |
| HILLEL INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER | $3,500 |
| FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH | $3,500 |
| NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH | $3,000 |
| ORT AMERICA | $3,000 |
| HOLOCOST MEMORIAL CENTER - ZEKELMAN CAMPUS | $3,000 |
| YAD EZRA | $3,000 |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL | $2,500 |
| ZOA | $2,000 |
| FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $1,500 |
| AD LEAGUE | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% of your 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.
18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +102%
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE5× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +62%- JEJEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- MDMAGAN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2021 · $5k
- CBCONGREGATION B'NAI MOSHEone grant, 2020 · $5k
- VOVARIOUS OTHER (6) JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS AT 500 EACHone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holocaust Memorial Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Milwaukee B'nai B'rith Non-Profit Housing Corporation-Covenant House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 32 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 JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC ↗
- Who funds JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT ↗
- Who funds YAD EZRA ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE B'NAI B'RITH NON-PROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION-COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Allan W Chernick Foundation 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.
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.
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