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Charles and M R Shapiro Foundation Inc

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.

$2.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
99
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$152k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$4.2MEducation$4.0MHuman Services$2.1MArts & Culture$1.7MReligion$1.4MPhilanthropy$1.2MInternational$1.1MCivil Rights$799kOther$0
02FY2025 · 99 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $96k
  • $10k–50k76 grants · $1.5M
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $757k
$17,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$52M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$152,390
JEWISH UNITED FUND$150,000
HEBREW UNION COLLEGE$75,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO$60,000
URJ OLIN-SANG RUBY UNION INSTITUTE$60,000
CJE SENIOR LIFE$55,000
THE ARK$55,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LANIADO HOSPITAL$50,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO$50,000
THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$50,000
CANCER WELLNESS CENTER$40,000
HADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND$40,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE$40,000
MEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS$37,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $18k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $18k → 6%ADA S MCKINLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25k → 14%ADA S MCKINLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25k → 14%ADA S MCKINLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25k → 14%ADA S MCKINLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25k → 14%ADA S MCKINLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $20k → 14%ADA S MCKINLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $20k → 14%ADA S MCKINLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $20k → 14%ADA S MCKINLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $20k → 14%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $40k → 14%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $40k → 14%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $40k → 14%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $40k → 14%JOURNEYCARE: $20k → 14%JOURNEYCARE: $20k → 14%JOURNEYCARE: $20k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO: $50k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO: $50k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO: $45k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO: $45k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO: $45k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO: $40k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO: $40k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO: $40k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO: $35k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $80k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $80k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $60k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $60k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $55k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $55k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $55k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $55k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $55k → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 14%CJE SENIOR LIFE: $55k → 14%COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $55k → 14%COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $50k → 14%COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $50k → 14%COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $50k → 14%COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $50k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$19M · 131 repeat orgs$154k to everyone else

131 repeat relationships — 93 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

131
10

Total granted

$19M
$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+52%

Still filing today

61%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationInternationalCivil RightsOther

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

  • RU
    Rush University Medical Center
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +51%
  • JC
    Jewish Community Centers of Chicago
    9× · 2017–2025 · $555k · revenue +20%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    9× · 2017–2025 · $390k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • TH
    The Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation)
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -13%
  • HI
    HEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH ISRAEL
    one grant, 2019 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
Loyola University of Chicago

We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.

Education
3
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
4
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
5
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
6
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
7
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
8
The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

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9
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
10
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
11
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
12
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind Or Visually Impaired and the most unlike its peers is No Shame On U Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 54 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr19%17%20–35yr14%28%35–55yr14%47%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr19%10%20–35yr14%20%35–55yr14%67%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/98
the rest of the field
14%
7,511/54,735

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.

04the grantee network

90 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. 90 of the 149 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/90
Grantees still filing
73/90
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION — $675,000 · OtherHEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGIONUNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM — $570,000 · OtherUNION FOR REFORM JUDAISMJEWISH UNITED FUNDJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $510,000 · OtherTHE ARK — $451,000 · OtherJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA — $450,000 · Other+78 more — $7,106,234 · Other+78 moreJewish Community Centers of Chicago — $555,000 · Human ServicesJewish Communit…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $390,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nation…COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY — $310,000 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL FOR JEW…ADA S MCKINLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $195,000 · Human ServicesADA S MCKINLEY …THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $190,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHICAGO LIG…Jewish Child and Family Services — $184,000 · Human ServicesJewish Child an…CASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION — $115,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE CITY FOUNDATION — $115,000 · Human ServicesISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND — $110,000 · Human ServicesTHE NIGHT MINISTRY — $92,000 · Human Services+7 more — $478,200 · Human Services+7 moreRush University Medical Center — $1,163,986 · HealthRush Univers…CANCER WELLNESS CENTER — $335,000 · HealthCANCER WELLN…MEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS — $297,500 · HealthMEMORY CARE …DYSTONIA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $90,000 · HealthJBI INTERNATIONAL INC — $78,000 · HealthACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK — $75,000 · Health+4 more — $182,500 · Health+4 moreTHE BOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION — $760,000 · EducationTHE BOARD …Greenville College — $251,529 · EducationGreenville…HADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $160,000 · EducationHADLEY INS…BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $150,000 · EducationBRANDEIS U…UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC — $120,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $117,500 · EducationUNITED NEG…ROCHELLE ZELL JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL — $90,000 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $90,000 · EducationAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC — $80,000 · Education+2 more — $81,500 · EducationLyric Opera of Chicago — $225,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Symphony Orchestra — $180,000 · Arts & CultureRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION — $180,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $120,000 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC — $95,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $82,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CHICAGO PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY — $82,000 · Arts & CultureREADING IN MOTION — $80,000 · Arts & CultureHUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO — $72,500 · Arts & CultureFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $65,000 · Arts & CultureVictory Gardens Theater — $60,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER — $52,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $25,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $324,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $302,500 · InternationalAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ — $243,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $157,500 · InternationalHIAS INC — $112,500 · InternationalISRAEL CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE THROUGH EDUCATION — $57,500 · International+2 more — $40,000 · InternationalJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $375,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $325,000 · PhilanthropyMichael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation — $255,000 · PhilanthropyCaravan to Class — $90,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $34,000 · Philanthropy
Other$9,762,234Human Services$2,734,200Health$2,221,986Education$1,900,529Arts & Culture$1,320,000International$1,237,000Philanthropy$1,079,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRush University Medical Center — $1,163,986 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION — $760,000 over 8y, 10% of budgetJewish Community Centers of Chicago — $555,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $390,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $375,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER WELLNESS CENTER — $335,000 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $325,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $324,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY — $310,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $302,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS — $297,500 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION — $295,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES — $257,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMichael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation — $255,000 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetGreenville College — $251,529 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ — $243,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $230,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago — $225,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMAOT CHITIM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC — $217,500 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetRoosevelt University — $205,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetADA S MCKINLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $195,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $190,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Child and Family Services — $184,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra — $180,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION — $180,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN HOWARD ASSOCIATION — $172,500 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $170,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $160,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $157,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE THRESHOLDS — $157,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $150,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTE — $140,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC — $120,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $120,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $117,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION — $115,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE CITY FOUNDATION — $115,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY — $115,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHIAS INC — $112,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND — $110,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS — $100,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC — $95,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LAMBS FARM INC — $92,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY — $92,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DANIEL CENTERS FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM — $90,000 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetCaravan to Class — $90,000 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetROCHELLE ZELL JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL — $90,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDYSTONIA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $90,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budget
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 Rush University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Community Centers of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds CANCER WELLNESS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds MEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Greenville College ↗
  • Who funds American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds MAOT CHITIM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds Roosevelt University ↗
  • Who funds ADA S MCKINLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Child and Family Services ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds JOHN HOWARD ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗

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.

Jewish Federation of …Arie and Ida Crown Me…Circle of Service Fou…The Chicago Community…Lloyd a Fry FoundationJohn D and Catherine …United Way of Metropo…AbbVie FoundationPolk Bros Foundation …Jewish United Fund of…Maury and Nancy Ferti…Motorola Solutions Fo…
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL45× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago · Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation

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 Charles and M R Shapiro Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Association for Residential Care Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 149 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines