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B & J Association Inc

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.

$51k
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$85kHuman Services$75kPhilanthropy$62kFood & Nutrition$45kArts & Culture$40kAnimals$17kEducation$15kCivil Rights$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k45 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$750
Median grant
14
States reached
$843k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SINAI CHICAGO$10,000
FRIENDS OF REFUGEES OF EASTERN EUROPE$4,194
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$2,500
THE TALKING FARM$2,500
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$2,000
KESHET$2,000
THE MEDICATION-INDUCED SUICIDE PREVENTION AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION$2,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$2,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$1,500
HEAL CHICAGO$1,250
NO KID HUNGRY$1,030
PAWS CHICAGO$1,021
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS$1,000
AMVETS DEPT OF CA SERVICE FOUNDATION$1,000
THE COVENANT HOUSE$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOSPICE OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $100 → 11%MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 14%SAVE OUR ALLIES: $500 → 9%EQUESTRIAN CONNECTION: $1k → 8%EQUESTRIAN CONNECTION: $550 → 8%EQUESTRIAN CONNECTION: $500 → 8%EQUESTRIAN CONNECTION: $309 → 8%EQUESTRIAN CONNECTION: $300 → 8%THE COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%THE COVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 17%THE COVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%BETWEEN FRIENDS: $5k → 14%BETWEEN FRIENDS: $3k → 14%MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%BETWEEN FRIENDS: $500 → 14%HUMANITY RELIEF: $100 → 14%FRIENDS OF REFUGEES OF EASTERN EUROPE: $6k → 14%FRIENDS OF REFUGEES OF EASTERN EUROPE: $6k → 14%FRIENDS OF REFUGEES OF EASTERN EUROPE: $4k → 14%FRIENDS OF REFUGEES OF EASTERN EUROPE: $4k → 14%FRIENDS OF REFUGEES OF EASTERN EUROPE: $3k → 14%FRIENDS OF REFUGEES OF EASTERN EUROPE: $3k → 14%FRIENDS OF REFUGEES OF EASTERN EUROPE: $3k → 14%FRIENDS OF REFUGEES OF EASTERN EUROPE: $3k → 14%CHICAGO CHESED FUND: $258 → 14%JEWISH CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%JEWISH CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 14%JEWISH CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 14%JEWISH CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 14%JEWISH CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
IL
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$344k · 67 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

67 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
82

Total granted

$344k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+28%

Still filing today

79%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    4× · 2018–2022 · $53k · revenue +34%
  • SH
    SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM
    4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +20%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF REFUGEES OF EASTERN EUROPE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • FE
    Family Empowerment Centers
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -14%
  • CF
    CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +29%
  • MS
    MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +9%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
2
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
3
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
4
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
5
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
6
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
7
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
8
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Ann & robert h. lurie children's hospital of chicago is dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a…

Health
9
Stanley Manne Childrens Research Institute

Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.

Health
10
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
11
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
12
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chicago Sun Times Charity Trust. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Community FoundationsFood Banks and PantriesPolicy Research and AdvocacySchool Parent OrganizationsJewish Community Organizati…Local Food System Organizat…Animal Rescue and ShelterAffordable Housing Developm…Community FoundationsDevelopmental Disabilities …Cancer Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 38 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr13%5%5–10yr18%22%10–20yr15%19%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr22%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr13%10%5–10yr18%13%10–20yr15%11%20–35yr14%36%35–55yr22%30%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/138
the rest of the field
12%
8,891/72,221

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.

04the grantee network

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

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 130 of the 167 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
128/130
Grantees still filing
90/130
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM — $40,000 · HealthSINAI HEALTH SYSTEMMedically Induced Suicide Ed Foundation — $9,133 · HealthMedically Induced Su…THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $8,133 · HealthTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $3,175 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $2,500 · Health+20 more — $9,762 · Health+20 moreFRIENDS OF REFUGEES OF EASTERN EUROPE INC — $32,519 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF REFUGE…Jewish Child and Family Services — $10,500 · Human ServicesJewish Child and …BETWEEN FRIENDS — $8,000 · Human ServicesBETWEEN FRIENDSEquestrian Connection NFP — $2,659 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,050 · Human Services+7 more — $5,458 · Human Services+7 moreJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $53,300 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FU…+8 more — $3,282 · Philanthropy+8 moreSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $6,060 · OtherNATE WASSERMAN CAMP FUND — $4,300 · OtherKESHET — $4,032 · OtherPAWS CHICAGO — $6,340 · OtherPAWS CHICAGOChicago Zoological Society — $5,100 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $9,100 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUECHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS — $6,566 · OtherCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELES…Family Empowerment Centers — $4,707 · Other+89 more — $69,207 · Other+89 moreTHE TALKING FARM — $17,435 · EducationTHE TALKIN…The George Washington University — $8,500 · EducationThe George…GARDENEERS — $3,500 · EducationGARDENEERSIllinois Institute of Technology — $2,000 · EducationIllinois I…LAKE CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $2,000 · EducationLAKE CITY …+7 more — $4,033 · Education+7 moreINTERNATIONAL CHURCHILL SOCIETY — $31,500 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIO…RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION — $2,500 · Arts & CultureRAVINIA FE…+5 more — $1,807 · Arts & CultureGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $11,027 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOOD BASKET — $3,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY — $1,750 · Food & NutritionFeeding America — $1,500 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $100 · Food & Nutrition
Health$72,703Human Services$61,186Philanthropy$56,582Other$115,412Education$37,468Arts & Culture$35,807Food & Nutrition$17,377

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $53,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF REFUGEES OF EASTERN EUROPE INC — $32,519 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CHURCHILL SOCIETY — $31,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE TALKING FARM — $17,435 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $11,027 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Child and Family Services — $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMedically Induced Suicide Ed Foundation — $9,133 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $9,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University — $8,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $8,133 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBETWEEN FRIENDS — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS — $6,566 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO — $6,340 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $6,060 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Zoological Society — $5,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Empowerment Centers — $4,707 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKESHET — $4,032 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARDENEERS — $3,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $3,328 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $3,175 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $3,030 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BASKET — $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEquestrian Connection NFP — $2,659 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION — $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans — $2,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL AID CHICAGO — $2,018 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY — $1,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER — $1,378 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION — $1,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmigos de las Americas — $1,261 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEAL CHICAGO — $1,250 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $1,053 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLYNN SAGE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

The Chicago Community…Jewish Federation of …AbbVie FoundationUnited Way of Metropo…Polk Bros Foundation …Circle of Service Fou…John D and Catherine …Baxter International …First Bank Chicago Fo…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…Chicago Foundation fo…
The Chicago Community TrustIL29.3× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · AbbVie Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · First Bank Chicago Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women

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 & J Association Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Florida Institute of Technology Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to B & J Association Inc?

Find your warmest path to B & J Association Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 167 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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