How much does Bellows Family Foundation give?

Bellows Family Foundation reported 25 itemized grants totaling $1,066,000, out of $1,098,755 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Bellows Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (43%), Youth Development (20%), Education (12%).

Who are Bellows Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Camp Extreme D/B/A Project Extreme ($894k), Kehilat Chovevei Tzion ($492k), American Friends of Matan Inc ($430k).

Does Bellows Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Bellows Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Bitton Family Foundation Inc, Aj & Sl Stern Family Foundation.

Where is Bellows Family Foundation based?

Bellows Family Foundation is based in IL.

Bellows Family Foundation

Bellows Family Foundation at a glance

· Public charity

Bellows Family Foundation

The foundation is exclusively organized to foster, promote, support, develop, encourage and maintain a specific charitable, educational, or religious purpose or function of, or as authorized in the charter of, the jewish federation of metropolitan chicago.

$1.1M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$151k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$2.2MYouth Development$1.0MEducation$598kHuman Services$333kInternational$295kPhilanthropy$279kHealth$207kRecreation & Sports$128kOther$0

02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 25 grants below total $1,066,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,098,755 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $32,755 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k7 grants · $53k
$10k–50k9 grants · $119k
$50k–250k9 grants · $894k

$12,500

Median grant

States reached

$5.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
HEBREW THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE	$150,500
PROJECT EXTREME	$150,000
YESHIVAT ASHREINU	$125,000
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY	$100,000
AMIT CHILDREN INC	$100,000
ARIE CROWN HEBREW DAY SCHOOL	$93,750
HILLEL TORAH NORTH SUBURBAN DAY SCHOOL	$75,000
MANHATTAN JEWISH EXPERIENCE SYNAGOGUE	$50,000
CAMP MOSHAVA OF WILD ROSE INC	$50,000
FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC	$23,750
JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO	$18,000
ONE ISRAEL FUND LTD	$15,000
CHICAGO CHESED FUND	$12,500
OHR TORAH STONE INSTITUTIONS OF ISRAEL	$10,000
THE ARK	$10,000

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, $469k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.5M · 24 repeat orgs$513k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.5M

$197k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%

+21%

Still filing today

58%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $316k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

ReligionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthInternationalEducationOther

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

CE
CAMP EXTREME D/B/A PROJECT EXTREME
8× · 2017–2024 · $894k · revenue +21%
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MATAN INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $430k · revenue +59%
FO
FRIENDS OF REFUGEES OF EASTERN EUROPE INC
2× · 2021–2023 · $300k · revenue +23%

Funded once

CM
CHICAGO MIKVAH ASSOCIATION INC
one grant, 2023 · $43k · revenue -13%
MV
MISHPAT VEHALACHA BEYISRAEL
one grant, 2017 · $38k · 74% of their budget
UC
UPWARD COMMUNITY SERVICESgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $27k · revenue +39%

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.

Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

University of Judaism Foundation

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American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah

—

Sherit Isroel

—

Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

—

Tal Hashamayim Foundation

Religion

Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education

Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

Ohr Yisrael Yeshiva Inc

Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.

Religion

Chevras Shabbos Kodesh Podcast Fellowship

Religion

Chabad Lametayel Inc

encourage and facilitate the observance of traditional orthodox Jewish practices around the world.

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American Friends of Yeshivat Nachalat Yossef

The organization will provide financial assistance to educational institutions that promote the observance of the jewish religion, its laws and traditions, and sacred texts, including yeshivat nachalat yossef, located in jerusalem, israel.

Religion

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kollel Torah Mitzion Inc; the most unlike its peers is Camp Extreme D/B/a Project Extreme. 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

34 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. 34 of the 47 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)

32/34

Grantees still filing

21/34

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,950,621Youth Development$893,500Philanthropy$821,450Human Services$469,000Religion$445,643International$274,636Health$206,800

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 ChicagoIL51.7× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Bitton Family Foundation Inc · Aj & Sl Stern Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Walder Foundation · Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family Foundation · Noah Wolff Family Foundation Inc · Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago · The Novick Family Foundation · Elliott and Ronni Charitable Fdn · Dennis and Joyce Ruben Foundation · Sheldon and Freda Robinson Charitable Foundation Inc

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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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