How much does Arkes Family Foundation give?

Arkes Family Foundation reported 118 grants totaling $1,232,501 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 93 and 116 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Arkes Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Employment (69%), Education (7%), Philanthropy (4%).

Who are Arkes Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hhplift ($4.8M), Anti-Defamation League ($239k), Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($197k).

Does Arkes Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Arkes Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Arkes Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, The Chicago Community Trust, Arie and Ida Crown Memorial.

Where is Arkes Family Foundation based?

Arkes Family Foundation is based in IL.

Arkes Family Foundation

Arkes Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$1.2M

Granted FY2024still arriving

118

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$851k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Employment$4.9MEducation$492kPhilanthropy$265kCivil Rights$261kHealth$194kReligion$132kYouth Development$110kHuman Services$108kOther$0

02FY2024 · 118 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k108 grants · $140k
$10k–50k8 grants · $166k
$50k–250k1 grant · $76k
$250k+1 grant · $851k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
ENCHANTED BACKPACK	$15,000
JCUA	$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
NOURISHING HOPE	$5,000
JCFS CHICAGO	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$6.9M · 176 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

176

Total granted

$6.9M

$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+27%

Still filing today

69%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

H
HHPLIFT
8× · 2017–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +12% · 72% of their budget
AL
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
5× · 2017–2024 · $239k · revenue +78%
JU
JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
5× · 2017–2021 · $197k · revenue +13%

Funded once

FW
Francis W Parker Schoolgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +31%
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue -31%
B
BZAEDS
one grant, 2023 · $10k

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.

National Opinion Research Center

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…

Social Science

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement

Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International

Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health

Loyola University of Chicago

We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.

Education

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

—

Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education

Chapin Hall Center for Children

Chapin hall's mission is to improve the well-being of children and youth, families, and their communities through broad-perspective policy research.

Human Services

The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education

Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

175 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

172/175

Grantees still filing

133/175

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Employment$4,868,181Other$935,512Education$380,202Philanthropy$278,191Civil Rights$247,950Human Services$210,505Youth Development$79,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

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 Metropolitan ChicagoIL55.5× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Arkes Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arkes Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

40report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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