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Benjamin J Rosenthal 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 $10k64 grants · $200k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $10,000 |
| PRINCIPIA | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| PEOPLE & CARNIVORES | $7,000 |
| RAVINIA FESTIVAL | $6,000 |
| CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND | $6,000 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $6,000 |
| CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| EDWARD HINES HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $5,000 |
| ACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,000 |
| SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| UNION OF THE CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $5,000 |
| PACIFIC GARDEN MISSION | $5,000 |
| CAROLE ROBERTSON LEARNING CENTER | $5,000 |
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, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 11 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY5× · 2020–2024 · $66k · revenue +17%- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO5× · 2020–2024 · $37k · revenue +13%
- TPThe Principia Corporation5× · 2020–2024 · $37k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- IRINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMSone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -7%
- TCThe Cradle Societyone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +16%
- WCWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +10%
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.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. 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.
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 47 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
65 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. 65 of the 89 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 GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds The Principia Corporation ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE AND CARNIVORES INC ↗
- Who funds MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CHANGING WORLDS ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FAT CAT RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds Gateway to the Great Outdoors ↗
- Who funds Jazz Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Chestnut Hill Benevolent Association ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds OREGON JEWISH MUSEUM AND CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ORPHANS OF THE STORM ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Baxter International Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Allstate Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Impactassetsinc
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 Benjamin J Rosenthal 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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