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B&D 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPERTUS INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP | $100,000 |
| SPERTUS INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE | $20,000 |
| CHICAGO SINAI CONGREGATION | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO SINAI CONGREGATION | $10,000 |
| CAMP NEBAGAMON | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO - CROWN FAMILY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK POLICY AND PRAC | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO SINAI CONGREGATION | $9,700 |
| NATIONAL PUBLIC HOUSING MUSEUM (NPHM) | $9,650 |
| LITTLE SAMARITAN MISSION | $8,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| CHICAGO YOUTH CENTERS | $5,000 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| FAMILY FOCUS | $2,500 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
The National Public Housing Museum5× · 2020–2024 · $72k · revenue +188%- CYChicago Youth Centers5× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +57%
- CNCAMP NEBAGAMON3× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +671%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO - SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SERVICE ADMINISTRATIONone grant, 2020 · $220k
- CNCAMP NEBAGAMON (FKA CN FOUNDATION)one grant, 2023 · $10k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVERone 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.
JCFS Chicago services and programs support wellbeing for children, teens, adults and families regardless of race, culture, religion, disability, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, or…
Federation amplifies our collective strength to make the world a better place for everyone. we assist people in need, impact chicagoans of all faiths; support israel and the jewish people worldwide; respond swiftly to crises; cultivate…
JCC Chicago is building community, supporting individuals and families, and growing hope through Jewish connections for everyone.
Start early advances quality early learning for families with children, before birth through their earliest years, to help close the opportunity gap.
To advance the aspirations of families and individuals to enrich their lives, bodies and spirits, by providing the best in contemporary programs and experiences, informed by jewish values for today's jews and the people in their lives.
Jewish summer camp is the enduring and irreplaceable connection and community that strengthens jewish identity, develops jewish leadership, and ensures a jewish future. foundation for jewish camp (fjc) is the only nonprofit whose singular…
Believing that every jewish child needs and deserves to grow up in a stable and healthy home environment, and that the fabric of that home is woven from material, emotional and religious threads, one family chicago is committed to…
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
To partner with organizations and communities to drive systemic change that impacts the root causes of child abuse and neglect.
Our mission is to strengthen and heal families and individuals from all walks of life through clinical service, education and research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Focus and the most unlike its peers is The National Public Housing Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 25 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 SPERTUS INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds The National Public Housing Museum ↗
- Who funds Chicago Youth Centers ↗
- Who funds CAMP NEBAGAMON ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY FOCUS LEGACY ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SAMARITAN MISSION ↗
- Who funds Family Focus ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE CENTER OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds Think Small ↗
- Who funds COLLABORATION FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD ↗
- Who funds CAMP NEBAGAMON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP NEBAGAMON SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
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 · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Kovler Family Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 B&D 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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