How much does Crown Family Foundation give?

Crown Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $29,529,740 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Crown Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Philanthropy (29%), International (11%).

Who are Crown Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($89M), Covenant Foundation ($49M), Jerusalem Foundation Inc ($12M).

Does Crown Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Crown Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Arie and Ida Crown Memorial, Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago.

Where is Crown Family Foundation based?

Crown Family Foundation is based in IL.

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Illinois · Public charity

Crown Family Foundation

To support and carry out the exempt purposes of the jewish federation of metropolitan chicago and the jewish united fund of metropolitan chicago by such means as the board of directors of the organizations may determine. This is accomplished by providing grants to charitable, educational and scientific organizations.

$30M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 24
Grants FY2025: 20
Organizations funded FY2024: 10%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $237,500
Largest grant, FY2025: $15,098,500
Organizations funded a year: 20 to 38; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 5
Total assets, FY2025: $531M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Crown Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureReligionPhilanthropyOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	20	$28M	10%
FY2024	20	$25M	10%
FY2023	33	$45M	12%
FY2022	25	$18M	16%
FY2021	29	$19M	10%
FY2020	34	$30M	18%
FY2019	38	$21M	26%
FY2018	33	$20M	27%

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What it funded, over time

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

Education$112MPhilanthropy$76MInternational$28MArts & Culture$12MHuman Services$10MReligion$9.3MHealth$9.0MFood & Nutrition$2.7MOther$0

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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago	$88,950,000	9	14%
Covenant Foundation	$48,892,000	9	100%
Jerusalem Foundation Inc	$11,500,000	3	58%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum	$5,000,000	1	3%
American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ	$4,000,000	3	4%
Hillel Torah North Suburban Day School	$3,652,514	6	n/a
Solomon Schechter Day School of Metropolitan Chicago	$3,383,336	9	n/a
American Friends of Magen David Adom	$3,250,000	6	2%
Council for Jewish Elderly	$2,845,000	6	2%
Jewish Child and Family Services	$2,520,000	5	4%

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All grantees of Crown Family Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago	$88,950,000	9	14%
Covenant Foundation	$48,892,000	9	100%
Jerusalem Foundation Inc	$11,500,000	3	58%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum	$5,000,000	1	3%
American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ	$4,000,000	3	4%
Hillel Torah North Suburban Day School	$3,652,514	6	n/a
Solomon Schechter Day School of Metropolitan Chicago	$3,383,336	9	n/a
American Friends of Magen David Adom	$3,250,000	6	2%
Council for Jewish Elderly	$2,845,000	6	2%
Jewish Child and Family Services	$2,520,000	5	4%
Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School	$2,330,063	9	4%
Chicago Jewish Day School	$2,229,815	9	6%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces	$2,159,000	5	1%
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University	$2,100,000	3	6%
The Ark	$2,035,000	6	6%
Jewish Theological Seminary of America	$2,000,000	1	n/a
Sinai Health System	$2,000,000	1	2%
The Jerusalem Foundation	$2,000,000	2	n/a
Americans for Ben-Gurion University Inc	$2,000,000	3	4%
Ecopeace Middle East Environmental Ngo Forum	$1,802,500	5	12%
Keshet	$1,600,000	5	5%
Rochelle Zell Jewish High School	$1,554,375	9	3%
Birthright Israel Foundation	$1,550,000	1	2%
American Society of the University of Haifa	$1,500,000	2	64%
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc	$1,500,000	2	1%
Jewish Family and Children's Service Inc	$1,500,000	1	4%
Akiba-Schechter Jewish Day School	$1,266,137	9	n/a
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion	$1,250,000	4	n/a
Associated Talmud Torahs of Chicago	$1,125,000	7	n/a
Shalva Inc	$1,105,000	4	31%
Ida Crown Jewish Academy Inc	$1,031,250	9	n/a
Arie Crown Hebrew Day School	$1,031,250	9	n/a
Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies Inc	$1,000,000	1	13%
American Friends of Herzog Hospital Inc	$1,000,000	1	82%
Beit T'Shuvah	$950,000	6	4%
Maot Chitim of Greater Chicago Inc	$800,000	5	19%
Yeshivat Maharat Inc	$740,000	6	10%
Jewish Community Centers of Chicago	$615,000	4	1%
Trustees of Boston University	$600,000	2	0%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc	$600,000	5	0%
Jewish Funders Network	$595,000	2	3%
Friends of Elnet	$545,000	8	2%
Facing History & Ourselves Inc	$500,000	1	2%
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life	$500,000	1	1%
The Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation)	$330,000	3	5%
Matan Inc	$300,000	2	24%
Union for Reform Judaism	$300,000	1	n/a
Afsnc Inc	$225,000	1	5%
Clal-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc	$215,200	8	1%
American Friends of Matan Inc	$212,500	2	12%
Window to the World Communications Inc	$175,000	7	0%
B'Nai B'Rith Youth Organization	$137,500	9	0%
Jewish Enrichment Center	$125,000	1	n/a
Jewish Vocational Service & Employment Center	$100,000	2	1%
Aspen Jewish Center	$100,000	1	6%
Israel-America Academic Exchange	$100,000	1	5%
Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School Ltd (Formerly the Meorot Inst)	$100,000	2	3%
Israaid US Global Humanitarian Assistance Inc	$100,000	1	2%
Atzum Inc	$100,000	1	83%
Israel Policy Forum Inc	$72,500	4	0%
Hebrew Seminary of the Deaf	$50,000	1	16%
Syracuse University	$25,000	2	0%
Firehouse Community Arts Center of Chicago	$15,000	1	1%
Boston University Hillel Inc	$12,500	1	1%
The Clubhouse Center For Respite And Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Anshe Emet Synagogue	$10,000	1	n/a
Civic Leadership Foundation	$10,000	1	2%
Scholars for Peace in the Middle East	$7,500	1	1%

Crown Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 56.

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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 Metropolitan ChicagoIL55.7× affinity26 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 · Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Communal Fund · Circle of Service Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Bellows Family Foundation · Hochberg Family Foundation · Walder Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Bernard Heerey 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.

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About Crown Family Foundation

How much does Crown Family Foundation give?: Crown Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $29,529,740 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Crown Family Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Philanthropy (29%), International (11%).
Who are Crown Family Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($89M), Covenant Foundation ($49M), Jerusalem Foundation Inc ($12M).
Does Crown Family Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Crown Family Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Arie and Ida Crown Memorial, Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago.
Where is Crown Family Foundation based?: Crown Family Foundation is based in IL.