· Private foundation
Benjamin J Rosenthal Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k53 grants · $188k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $20,000 |
| EDWARD HINES HOSPITAL | $16,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,000 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $16,000 |
| MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $12,000 |
| JAZZ INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| PACIFIC GARDEN MISSION | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $9,500 |
| CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND | $9,000 |
| SEEING EYE INC | $8,000 |
| PEOPLE & CARNIVORES | $8,000 |
| RAVINIA FESTIVAL | $7,000 |
| CHANNEL 11 | $6,500 |
| CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $26k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +23% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
62 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY6× · 2020–2025 · $86k · revenue +17%- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO6× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +13%
- TATHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO6× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- IRINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMSone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -7%
- TATHE ARKone grant, 2023 · $5k
- HPHIGHLAND PARK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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How this is measured
70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 70 of the 99 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 GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds The Principia Corporation ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE AND CARNIVORES INC ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CHANGING WORLDS ↗
- Who funds FAT CAT RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Gateway to the Great Outdoors ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS ↗
- Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Jazz Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Chestnut Hill Benevolent Association ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds ORPHANS OF THE STORM ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON JEWISH MUSEUM AND CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Benjamin J Rosenthal Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Benjamin J Rosenthal Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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