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Crain-Maling 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
134
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$2.9MArts & Culture$892kEducation$786kInternational$681kHuman Services$460kHealth$437kYouth Development$152kCivil Rights$150kOther$0
02FY2025 · 134 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k99 grants · $287k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $613k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $325k
$5,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH EDUCATIONAL MEDIA$100,000
WTTW$75,000
GASTROINTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION$50,000
CITY OF HOPE CANCER CENTER$50,000
CARING FOR FRIENDS$50,000
THE JEWISH POCET$35,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
CLARION PROJECT INC$30,000
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$29,500
THE COVE SCHOOL$27,500
THE BINYAMIN FUND INC$26,000
CONGREGATION HAMERKAZ INC$25,000
CHICAGO FESTIVAL OF ISRAELI CINEMA$25,000
CHAMAH$25,000
OPENDOR MEDIA$25,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ISRAEL SELECT CHARITY FUND: $10k → 13%MARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME: $5k → 8%FRIENDS OF YASHAR LACHAYAL: $1k → 8%ISRAEL SELECT CHARITY FUND: $5k → 13%MARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME: $5k → 8%ISRAEL SELECT CHARITY FUND: $2k → 13%MARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME: $5k → 8%ISRAEL SELECT CHARITY FUND: $1k → 13%MARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME: $5k → 8%MARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME: $5k → 8%MARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME: $5k → 8%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $25k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $3k → 14%TEN YAD KALLAH GEMACH: $5k → 20%INSIGHT PROJECT FOR KIDS: $12k → 14%TEN YAD KALLAH GEMACH: $5k → 20%TEN YAD KALLAH GEMACH: $5k → 20%INSIGHT PROJECT FOR KIDS: $11k → 14%TEN YAD KALLAH GEMACH: $3k → 20%INSIGHT PROJECT FOR KIDS: $6k → 14%TEN YAD KALLAH GEMACH: $3k → 20%INSIGHT PROJECT FOR KIDS: $5k → 14%TEN YAD KALLAH GEMACH: $1k → 20%THE INSIGHT PROJECT FOR KIDS: $3k → 14%THE INSIGHT PROJECT FOR KIDS: $3k → 14%CHASDEI AVROHOM ELIEZER INC: $1k → 20%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

NH
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IN
OH
NJ
CA
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
TX
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.5M · 134 repeat orgs$482k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

134 repeat relationships: 94 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

134
47

Total granted

$7.5M
$311k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+19%

Still filing today

47%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $171k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionInternationalEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • JE
    JEWISH EDUCATIONAL MEDIA
    6× · 2020–2025 · $655k · revenue +62%
  • ML
    MERKOS L INYOUNEI CHINUCH LUBAVITCH OF INDIANA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $540k · revenue +145%
  • GI
    GASTRO INTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $402k · revenue +584%

Funded once

  • AA
    AJC - AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    one grant, 2020 · $60k
  • LO
    LUBAVITCH OF WISCONSIN INC
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • LB
    LEZION B'RINA INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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
Sherit Isroel
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2
University of Judaism Foundation
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3
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
4
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
5
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
6
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
—
7
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
8
Chabad Lametayel Inc

encourage and facilitate the observance of traditional orthodox Jewish practices around the world.

—
9
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
10
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Chevras Shabbos Kodesh Podcast Fellowship
Religion
12
Ohr Olam Corp

publish religious books

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birthright Israel Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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

105 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. 105 of the 222 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/105
Grantees still filing
73/105
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NCSY: $256,000 · OtherNCSYIndividual grant recipient: $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHEBREW THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE: $161,000 · OtherJEWISH YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $140,000 · OtherThe Avner Institute Inc: $139,000 · OtherCHAMAH: $134,000 · OtherMACHNE ISRAEL INC: $128,000 · Other+123 more: $2,517,940 · Other+123 moreJEWISH EDUCATIONAL MEDIA: $654,800 · ReligionJEWISH EDUCATIONAL MEDI…MERKOS L INYOUNEI CHINUCH LUBAVITCH OF INDIANA INC: $540,000 · ReligionMERKOS L INYOUNEI CHINU…CONGREGATION HAMERKAZ INC: $152,500 · ReligionCONGREGATION HAMERKAZ I…THE HINDA INSTITUTE: $110,000 · ReligionTHE HINDA INSTITUTEOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $110,000 · ReligionOPENDOR MEDIA INCCHICAGO MEZUZAH AND MITZVAH CAMPAIGN: $61,000 · Religion+11 more: $80,500 · ReligionBAIS CHANA WOMEN INTERNATIONAL INC: $307,000 · Arts & CultureBAIS CHANA WO…WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureWINDOW TO THE…Chicago Symphony Orchestra: $168,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Symph…Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema NFP: $125,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Festi…CLARION PROJECT INC: $115,000 · Arts & CultureCLARION PROJE…+3 more: $32,000 · Arts & CultureBinyamin Fund Inc DBA The Heart of Israel: $236,000 · InternationalBinyamin F…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $218,000 · InternationalJEWISH NAT…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $125,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF…WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $47,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON…ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $30,000 · International+14 more: $84,000 · International+14 moreUniversity of Chicago: $250,000 · EducationMENACHEM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 · EducationTHE COVE SCHOOL INC: $80,500 · EducationUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $30,000 · EducationCHICAGO JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationTORAH ACADEMY OF BUFFALO GROVE: $18,000 · Education+6 more: $36,700 · EducationGASTRO INTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $402,100 · Health+6 more: $39,000 · HealthINSIGHT PROJECT FOR KIDS: $40,000 · Human ServicesMARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME: $30,000 · Human ServicesNORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $25,000 · Human ServicesTEN YAD KALLAH GEMACH INC: $22,000 · Human ServicesIsrael Select Charity Fund Inc: $18,000 · Human Services+2 more: $3,500 · Human Services
Other$3,675,940Religion$1,708,800Arts & Culture$947,000International$740,000Education$530,200Health$441,100Human Services$138,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetJEWISH EDUCATIONAL MEDIA: $654,800 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetMERKOS L INYOUNEI CHINUCH LUBAVITCH OF INDIANA INC: $540,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetGASTRO INTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $402,100 over 6y, 18% of budgetBAIS CHANA WOMEN INTERNATIONAL INC: $307,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBinyamin Fund Inc DBA The Heart of Israel: $236,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $218,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $200,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $168,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCONGREGATION HAMERKAZ INC: $152,500 over 6y, 27% of budgetThe Avner Institute Inc: $139,000 over 6y, 9.4% of budgetChicago Festival of Israeli Cinema NFP: $125,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCLARION PROJECT INC: $115,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetTHE HINDA INSTITUTE: $110,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $110,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JEWISH POCET: $105,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetMENACHEM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetTHE COVE SCHOOL INC: $80,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO MEZUZAH AND MITZVAH CAMPAIGN: $61,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetBeis Midrash of Queens: $60,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $47,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYaldei Shluchei Harebbe Special Needs Organization: $46,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetINSIGHT PROJECT FOR KIDS: $40,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetMARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROFEH CHOLIM CANCER SOCIETY INC: $28,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $26,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF OR CHAYA INC: $26,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetNORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTEN YAD KALLAH GEMACH INC: $22,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLUBAVITCH GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL INC: $21,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCAMP GAN ISRAEL INC: $20,500 over 4y, 25% of budgetCHICAGO JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIsrael Select Charity Fund Inc: $18,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTORAH ACADEMY OF BUFFALO GROVE: $18,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetYAD EZRA V'SHULAMIT: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $14,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHABAD OF CLUJ-NAPOCA ROMANIA: $14,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetALIYA INTERNATIONAL STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM: $13,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OHEL BAS ZION INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTORAH COMMUNITY FUND INC: $11,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetChabad Terror Victims Project Inc: $11,500 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetFaith and Learning International NFP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEV CHABAD INC: $10,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetYAD YISROEL: $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF MISHPACHA ORPHANAGE ODESSA: $9,000 over 2y, 0.6% 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.

  • Who funds JEWISH EDUCATIONAL MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds MERKOS L INYOUNEI CHINUCH LUBAVITCH OF INDIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds GASTRO INTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BAIS CHANA WOMEN INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Binyamin Fund Inc DBA The Heart of Israel ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds CONGREGATION HAMERKAZ INC ↗
  • Who funds The Avner Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema NFP ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds CLARION PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HINDA INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds OPENDOR MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH POCET ↗
  • Who funds MENACHEM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COVE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO MEZUZAH AND MITZVAH CAMPAIGN ↗
  • Who funds Beis Midrash of Queens ↗

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.

Jewish Federation of …Jewish Communal FundNash Charity Foundati…Rebbe's Partnership F…The Ojc FundSaul Schottenstein Fo…Walder FoundationKeren Hachomesh IncLets Make It Happen N…Kolel Torah IncAssociated Jewish Cha…Todd a and Raphaela S…
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL49.8× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Communal Fund · Nash Charity Foundation Inc · Rebbe's Partnership Foundation · The Ojc Fund · Saul Schottenstein Foundation C · Walder Foundation · Keren Hachomesh Inc · Lets Make It Happen Ny Inc · Kolel Torah Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family Foundation

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 Crain-Maling Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Crain-Maling Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Crain-Maling Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Crain-Maling Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 222 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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