Illinois · Public charity
Chicago Chesed Fund
To raise and distribute funds, goods, food, and assistance to the poverty-stricken in the jewish community.
- $7.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 22
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2021
- Itemized, FY2024
- $245k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 27
- FY2017 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $15M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 22% of the organizations Chicago Chesed Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 22 | $245k | 55% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $125k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $124k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $102k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $77k | 38% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $114k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joan Dachs Bais Yaakov Elementary School-Yeshivas Tiferes Tzvi Inc | $133,770 | 8 | n/a |
| Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America | $63,270 | 5 | n/a |
| Hebrew Theological College | $63,083 | 5 | n/a |
| Bais Yaakov High School of Chicago | $43,188 | 7 | 0% |
| Yeshivas Kesser Yonah | $39,700 | 6 | 0% |
| Rabbinical College of Telshe Inc | $32,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Missouri Torah Institute | $31,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Arie Crown Hebrew Day School | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ner Israel Rabbinical College Inc | $24,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Neimas Bais Yaakov Inc | $24,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 51 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joan Dachs Bais Yaakov Elementary School-Yeshivas Tiferes Tzvi Inc | $133,770 | 8 | n/a |
| Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America | $63,270 | 5 | n/a |
| Hebrew Theological College | $63,083 | 5 | n/a |
| Bais Yaakov High School of Chicago | $43,188 | 7 | 0% |
| Yeshivas Kesser Yonah | $39,700 | 6 | 0% |
| Rabbinical College of Telshe Inc | $32,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Missouri Torah Institute | $31,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Arie Crown Hebrew Day School | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ner Israel Rabbinical College Inc | $24,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Neimas Bais Yaakov Inc | $24,000 | 2 | 1% |
| American Friends of Tiferet Center | $19,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Yachad Learning and Tours | $18,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Shaar Hatalmud | $17,400 | 3 | n/a |
| Friends of Meohr Bais Yaakov Inc | $14,025 | 2 | 5% |
| American Friends of Bnot Torah Institute | $14,000 | 3 | 4% |
| American Friends of Neveh Zion | $13,600 | 1 | 1% |
| Machon Maayan Inc | $13,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Yeshiva Nishmas Chaim Inc | $12,700 | 2 | n/a |
| Yotzer Ohr Inc | $12,000 | 3 | 1% |
| American Friends of Bnos Yehudis In | $10,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Machon Bnos Yehuda | $10,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Shalom Montessori School LLC | $10,490 | 2 | n/a |
| Yeshivat Aish Hatorah | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lakewood Cheder School Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Yeshiva Orchos Chaim | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hanna Sacks Bais Yaakov High School of Chicago | $9,750 | 2 | n/a |
| Bellevue University | $9,380 | 2 | 0% |
| Yeshiva University | $8,513 | 2 | 0% |
| Playthinks | $8,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Touro University | $8,360 | 3 | 0% |
| Bais Kaila Torah Preparatory Hs | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Nachlas USA | $7,575 | 1 | n/a |
| Nelnet Foundation | $7,364 | 2 | 0% |
| Actualize | $6,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Gates of Zion Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Congregation Beth Mikroh Inc | $5,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Telshe Yeshiva-Chicago Rabbinical College Telshe-Chicago | $4,350 | 1 | n/a |
| Chicago Hebrew Institute | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New Jersey Center for Judaic Studies | $2,800 | 1 | n/a |
| University of North Dakota-College of Business & Public Admin | $2,104 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends of Beth Jacob Teachers Institute of Jerusalem | $2,000 | 1 | 35% |
| Yeshiva Bais Moshe Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jewish Education for Girls Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish Child and Family Services | $1,750 | 1 | 0% |
| Congregation Khal Chasidim | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends of Be'Er Hatorahinc | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Akiba-Schechter Jewish Day School | $820 | 1 | n/a |
| Chesed of Lakewood Inc | $600 | 1 | 0% |
| Machneh Naarim C O David Presser | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Derech Hatorah Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends of Yeshiva Gedolah Matisyahu Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Chicago Chesed Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family Foundation · Kehillah Jewish Education Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Center for Jewish Education Inc · Cambridge Charitable Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Lakewood Cheder School Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Bitton Family Foundation Inc · Aj & Sl Stern Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Chicago Chesed Fund
- How much does Chicago Chesed Fund give?
- Chicago Chesed Fund reported 22 itemized grants totaling $244,937, out of $7,362,897 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
- What does Chicago Chesed Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (64%), International (22%), Religion (13%).
- Who are Chicago Chesed Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Joan Dachs Bais Yaakov Elementary School-Yeshivas Tiferes Tzvi Inc ($134k), Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America ($63k), Hebrew Theological College ($63k).
- Does Chicago Chesed Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Chicago Chesed Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family Foundation.
- Where is Chicago Chesed Fund based?
- Chicago Chesed Fund is based in IL.
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