· Private foundation
Carylon Julius and Marcie Hemmelstein Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $555k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $670k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISHKAN CHICAGO | $105,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF ANN ARBOR | $100,000 |
| RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $100,000 |
| CHICAGO ABORTION FUND | $60,000 |
| JOHN HOWARD ASSOCIATION | $55,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $50,000 |
| OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| EQUAL HOPE | $50,000 |
| RASHI SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| HEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY | $35,000 |
| MISERICORDIA | $30,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| CHILDRENS BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM | $25,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +25% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
71 repeat relationships: 58 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 8 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RURush University Medical Center5× · 2021–2025 · $810k · revenue +14%
- JHJOHN HOWARD ASSOCIATION5× · 2021–2025 · $245k · revenue +41%
- EHEqual Hope5× · 2021–2025 · $231k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- FJFRANCES JACOBSON EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INCone grant, 2021 · $225k
- JLJEWISH LEARNING FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $85k
- PBPALM BEACH ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUE INCone grant, 2021 · $75k
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.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…
The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…
Simon wiesenthal center, inc. (the center) is a global jewish human rights activist organization that confronts anti-semitism, hate, stands with israel, defends the safety of jews worldwide, and teaches the lessons of the holocaust for…
In recognition of the fundamental principles of the universal declaration of human rights, international bridges to justice (ibj) is dedicated to protecting the basic legal rights of ordinary citizens in developing countries. specifically,…
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
Federation amplifies our collective strength to make the world a better place for everyone. we assist people in need, impact chicagoans of all faiths; support israel and the jewish people worldwide; respond swiftly to crises; cultivate…
To promote partnership and coexistence among jewish and arab citizens of israel by providing support for integrated schools and providing funding for and assisting in program development in connection with israeli nonprofits with similar…
How this is measured
70 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. 70 of the 108 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 Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds JOHN HOWARD ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Equal Hope ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds THE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO ABORTION FUND ↗
- Who funds WATER FOR PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds PKD Foundation ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds OFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Jewish Council on Urban Affairs ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · New Venture Fund · Covenant Foundation · Michael Reese Health Trust · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carylon Julius and Marcie Hemmelstein Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carylon Julius and Marcie Hemmelstein Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
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