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Cahnman Berman Family Foundation at a glance

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Cahnman Berman Family 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.

$155k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$592kInternational$198kHealth$58kCrime & Legal$37kArts & Culture$23kRecreation & Sports$20kPhilanthropy$9kEmployment$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $64k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$75,028
DEPAUL UNIVERSITY$42,270
HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT$11,624
FRANCIS W PARKER SCHOOL$10,567
WORKING IN THE SCHOOLS INC$5,000
PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION$5,000
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN$2,500
PAID TO AN INDIVIDUAL$1,250
CAMBODIAN CHILDRENS FUND$1,050
ELYSSA'S MISSION NFP$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 12%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $30k → 12%AFMDA: $4k → 17%RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $10k → 17%HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT: $35k → 9%TULANE: $2k → 23%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $2k → 17%RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $3k → 14%FRANCIS W PARKER SCHOOL: $13k → 14%HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT: $20k → 9%TULANE UNIVERSITY FREEMAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: $2k → 23%RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $3k → 14%FRANCIS W PARKER SCHOOL: $12k → 14%HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT: $13k → 9%RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $2k → 14%FRANCIS W PARKER SCHOOL: $11k → 14%HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT: $13k → 9%ROIVANT SOCIAL VENTURES INC: $5k → 17%RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $2k → 14%FRANCIS W PARKER SCHOOL: $9k → 14%HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT: $12k → 9%RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $2k → 14%FRANCIS W PARKER SCHOOL: $8k → 14%HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT: $9k → 9%FRANCIS W PARKER SCHOOL: $5k → 14%FRANCIS W PARKER SCHOOL: $3k → 14%RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $15k → 14%FRANCIS W PARKER SCHOOL: $3k → 14%RUSH MEDICAL CENTER: $12k → 14%CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $2k → 14%RUSH MEDICAL CENTER: $6k → 14%RUSH MEDICAL CENTER: $5k → 14%CHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $75k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $10k → 14%WORKING IN THE SCHOOLS INC: $5k → 14%CHICAGO ARTS ORCHESTRA: $10k → 14%SEEN WORLDWIDE - NMS IYACC COMPETITION: $3k → 14%DEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $103k → 14%DEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%DEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%DEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $75k → 14%DEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $58k → 14%DEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $42k → 14%CHICAGO ARTS ORCHESTRA: $11k → 14%ONE MILLION DEGREES: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

VT
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
RI
CA
CO
VA
NC
LA
TX
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.
$781k · 18 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
39

Total granted

$781k
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+28%

Still filing today

67%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureInternationalCrime & LegalCivil RightsOther
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

  • DU
    DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $478k · revenue +25%
  • HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $102k · revenue +233%
  • FW
    Francis W Parker School
    8× · 2017–2024 · $63k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • CP
    CHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +139%
  • RU
    Rush University Medical Center
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +4%
  • University of Chicago
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +21%
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.

1
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
2
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
The Adler Planetarium

The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…

Arts & Culture
6
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
7
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
8
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
9
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
10
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
11
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
12
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Public Media Inc; the most unlike its peers is Outride fka the Specialized Foundation. 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

41 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. 41 of the 61 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/41
Grantees still filing
31/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $478,270 · EducationDEPAUL UNIVERSITYFrancis W Parker School: $63,067 · EducationFrancis W Parker School+8 more: $43,790 · Education+8 moreHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $102,016 · InternationalHIMALAYAN CATARACT PR…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $75,028 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND …+2 more: $6,950 · InternationalRUSH MEDICAL CENTER: $23,000 · OtherRUSH MEDI…UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSIT…CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY: $6,308 · OtherCALIFORNI…CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $3,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $3,000 · OtherRush University Medical Center: $15,000 · OtherRush Univ…+30 more: $21,382 · Other+30 morePacific Legal Foundation: $36,500 · Crime & LegalElyssas Mission NFP: $2,000 · Crime & LegalCHICAGO ARTS ORCHESTRA: $21,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $840 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $190 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsCambodian Childrens Fund: $13,195 · PhilanthropyROIVANT SOCIAL VENTURES INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyIMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO: $1,100 · Philanthropy+1 more: $110 · Philanthropy
Education$585,127International$183,994Other$82,190Crime & Legal$38,500Arts & Culture$22,030Recreation & Sports$20,000Philanthropy$19,405

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $478,270 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $102,016 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $75,028 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFrancis W Parker School: $63,067 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $36,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO ARTS ORCHESTRA: $21,000 over 2y, 84% of budgetCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCambodian Childrens Fund: $13,195 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetONE MILLION DEGREES: $11,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORKING IN THE SCHOOLS INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetROIVANT SOCIAL VENTURES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $3,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElyssas Mission NFP: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOutride fka The Specialized Foundation: $1,055 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $1,040 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROWING HOME INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $840 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTART EARLY: $685 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPENLANDS: $510 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEEONE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHANGE FOR KIDS INC: $216 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $190 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $147 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $120 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $70 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIONS CHICAGO DREAM INC NFP: $26 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Chicago Community…AbbVie FoundationNational Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for Good
The Chicago Community TrustIL15× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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