· Private foundation
Chicago Educational Research 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM | $5,000 |
| JOHNNY'S AMBASSADORS | $3,000 |
| CHICAGO JEWISH DAY SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| MADONNA MISSION | $2,500 |
| ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER | $2,500 |
| MARGARET R BAKER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| OVER THE RAINBOW HOUSING | $1,500 |
| PCD FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| SOUL CITY CHURCH | $1,500 |
| SIENA MILITARY CLUB | $1,000 |
| SHALVA | $1,000 |
| VER INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| KLEO CUMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE CENTER | $1,000 |
| CARFU - CHICAGO AREA RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION | $1,000 |
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, $22k) 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 36% of Chicago Educational Research Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 71% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 36%.
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 +13% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 16 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HMHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $29k · revenue +12%
- MMMadonna Mission6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +127%
- CJCHICAGO JEWISH DAY SCHOOL5× · 2021–2025 · $9k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- SFST FRANCIS OF ASSISI CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $1k
- COCLUB OF HEARTS INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +5%
- FXFRANCES XAVIER WARDE CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $1k
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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How this is measured
39 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. 39 of the 69 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 HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds Madonna Mission ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PCD KS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds KLEO Community Family Life Center ↗
- Who funds JOHNNYS AMBASSADORS INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHALVA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BUFFALO SHORELINE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Urban Prep Academies ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTHBUILD LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MARGARET R BAKER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA ↗
- Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARK SCHONWETTER HOLOCAUST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLUB OF HEARTS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC ↗
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: AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Charles and M R Shapiro Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chicago Educational Research Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chicago Educational Research Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Keshet Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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