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Arkes Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k108 grants · $140k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $166k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $76k
- $250k+1 grant · $851k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HHPLIFT | $850,600 |
| JUF | $75,900 |
| ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $46,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $20,000 |
| ANSHE EMET SYNAGOGUE | $19,451 |
| JCUA | $15,000 |
| ENCHANTED BACKPACK | $15,000 |
| A BETTER CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| RESPOND NOW INC | $10,000 |
| AMY KROUSE ROSENTHAL FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| DIGESTIVE HEALTH | $6,000 |
| THE ARK | $5,400 |
| JCFS CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| VOCEL | $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 (FY17–24, $181k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +45% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
176 repeat relationships — 101 still active in FY2024, 75 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- HHHPLIFT8× · 2017–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +12% · 72% of their budget
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE5× · 2017–2024 · $239k · revenue +78%
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO5× · 2017–2021 · $197k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- FWFrancis W Parker Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +31%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue -31%
- BBZAEDSone grant, 2023 · $10k
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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To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
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Chapin hall's mission is to improve the well-being of children and youth, families, and their communities through broad-perspective policy research.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc and the most unlike its peers is Enchanted Backpack. 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 40 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
175 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. 175 of the 268 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 HHPLIFT ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds BELOIT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds A Better Chicago ↗
- Who funds Lawrence Hall ↗
- Who funds Vocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders ↗
- Who funds HIGHSIGHT ↗
- Who funds BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ENCHANTED BACKPACK ↗
- Who funds RESPOND NOW ↗
- Who funds AMY KROUSE ROSENTHAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUNT MARTHA'S HEALTH AND WELLNESS INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds The Cara Program ↗
- Who funds Jewish Council on Urban Affairs ↗
- Who funds SHALVA INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds DIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Francis W Parker School ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds GROWING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH JUMP ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCADO GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS IN SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY ↗
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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Kovler Family Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · AbbVie Foundation
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 Arkes Family 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% 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.
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