· Private foundation
Arthur & Sylvia Katz Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE SHOLOM CHICAGO | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $2,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $1,065 |
| THE MADDIE KRAMER FOUNDATION CO DANCING WHILE CANCERING | $1,000 |
| SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE FORUM | $1,000 |
| ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $500 |
| MAKE A WISH | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +116%- FOFRIENDS OF THE FORUM9× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +139%
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- UNUNITED NATIONS WATCHone grant, 2020 · $1k
- GAGENESIS AT THE CROSSROADS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +38%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORYone grant, 2020 · $150 · 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.
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.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The world jewish congress, america section, is a jewish humanitarian, human rights, and advocacy organization representing jewish communities in north america and is the voice of the premier global jewish umbrella for jewish communities…
The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.
The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…
Anti-defamation league (the "league") is a leading anti-hate organization that was founded in 1913 in response to an escalating climate of antisemitism and bigotry. (continued in sch. o)its timeless mission is to stop the defamation of the…
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…
Provide the public access to the live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of both houses of the us congress, and other forums where public policy is discussed, debated, and decided - all without editing, commentary or analysis and with a balanced…
The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…
The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FORUM ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Maddie Kramer Foundation d/b/a Dancing While Cancering ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS WATCH - USA ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds McDermott Center ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds GENESIS AT THE CROSSROADS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Arthur & Sylvia Katz Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arthur & Sylvia Katz Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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