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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.

$30M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$15M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+11 grants · $28M
$237,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$531M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago$15,098,500
Covenant Foundation$6,395,000
Jewish Federations of North America$1,450,000
Hillel Torah North Suburban Day School$952,514
Solomon Schechter Day School of Metropolitan Chicago$908,336
Chicago Jewish Day School$867,315
The ARK$825,000
Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School$636,063
Beit Tshuvah$375,000
Akiba Schechter - Jewish Day School$366,137
Maot Chitim$300,000
Friends of ELNET$237,500
Rochelle Zell Jewish High School$196,875
Arie Crown Hebrew Day School$131,250
Ida Crown Jewish Academy$131,250
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 (FY17–25, $11.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Jewish Child and Family Services: $1.5M → 11%Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies: $1.0M → 7%Matan: $180k → 17%Matan Inc: $120k → 17%Jewish Child & Family Services: $1.4M → 14%Jewish Child & Family Services: $350k → 14%Jewish Child & Family Services: $300k → 14%Jewish Child & Family Services: $300k → 14%Jewish Community Centers - EZRA Multi-Service Center: $200k → 14%Jewish Child & Family Services: $200k → 14%Jewish Community Centers: $15k → 14%Council for Jewish Elderly Senior Life: $1.2M → 14%The ARK: $825k → 14%CJE SeniorLife: $680k → 14%CJE SeniorLife: $680k → 14%The ARK: $400k → 14%The ARK: $350k → 14%The ARK: $300k → 14%CJE SeniorLife: $180k → 14%SHALVA: $455k → 14%The ARK: $135k → 14%Shalva: $300k → 14%CJE SeniorLife: $55k → 14%Shalva Inc: $250k → 14%CJE SeniorLife: $50k → 14%Shalva Inc: $100k → 14%THE ARK: $25k → 14%Jewish Community Centers - EZRA Multi-Service Center: $200k → 14%Jewish Community Centers - EZRA Multi-Service Center: $200k → 14%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

IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
AZ
DC
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 29% of Crown Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 61% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 20%.

Crown Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 31% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$206M · 45 repeat orgs$16M to everyone else

45 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
21

Total granted

$206M
$16M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+34%

Still filing today

82%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k 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
InternationalEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyReligionArts & CultureOther
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

  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    9× · 2017–2025 · $89M · revenue +13%
  • CF
    Covenant Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $49M · revenue +51% · 100% of their budget
  • JF
    JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2019–2023 · $12M · revenue +69% · 58% of their budget

Funded once

  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museumgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5.0M · revenue +34%
  • JT
    JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2019 · $2.0M
  • SH
    SINAI HEALTH SYSTEMgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2.0M · revenue +37%
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
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
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
3
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
4
Sherit Isroel
—
5
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

—
6
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
7
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Wexner Foundation
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9
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
10
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…

—
11
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

To promote, encourage, aid and advance higher and secondary education, research and training in all branches of knowledge. as the standard bearer of excellence, the university strives to ensure and foster outstanding achievements in all…

Education
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…

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc; the most unlike its peers is Firehouse Community Arts Center of Chicago. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 74 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
47/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $88,950,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGOJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $29,960,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGOTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $5,950,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $2,907,500 · PhilanthropyCovenant Foundation: $48,892,000 · EducationCovenant FoundationBERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL: $2,330,063 · EducationCHICAGO JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $2,229,815 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $2,100,000 · Education+7 more: $6,429,375 · Education+7 moreJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC: $11,500,000 · InternationalJERUSALEM FOU…American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $4,000,000 · InternationalAmerican Frie…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $3,250,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIE…AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $2,500,000 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCI…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $2,159,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF TH…ECOPEACE MIDDLE EAST ENVIRONMENTAL NGO FORUM: $1,802,500 · InternationalECOPEACE MIDD…BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $1,550,000 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA: $1,500,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $1,500,000 · International+8 more: $2,510,000 · International+8 moreHILLEL TORAH NORTH SUBURBAN DAY SCHOOL: $3,652,514 · OtherSOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $3,383,336 · OtherJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA: $2,000,000 · OtherKESHET: $1,600,000 · OtherAKIBA-SCHECHTER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $1,266,137 · OtherHEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION: $1,250,000 · OtherASSOCIATED TALMUD TORAHS OF CHICAGO: $1,125,000 · OtherIDA CROWN JEWISH ACADEMY INC: $1,031,250 · OtherARIE CROWN HEBREW DAY SCHOOL: $1,031,250 · OtherBeit T'Shuvah: $950,000 · OtherMAOT CHITIM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC: $800,000 · Other+14 more: $2,590,200 · OtherCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $2,845,000 · Human ServicesJewish Child and Family Services: $2,520,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARK: $2,035,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $1,500,000 · Human ServicesSHALVA INC: $1,105,000 · Human ServicesNETWORK OF JEWISH HUMAN SERVICE AGENCIES INC: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesJewish Community Centers of Chicago: $615,000 · Human Services+1 more: $300,000 · Human ServicesThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,000,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $500,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $190,000 · Arts & CultureSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $2,000,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INC: $1,000,000 · Health
Philanthropy$127,767,500Education$61,981,253International$32,271,500Other$20,679,687Human Services$11,920,000Arts & Culture$5,690,000Health$3,000,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $88,950,000 over 9y, 14% of budgetCovenant Foundation: $48,892,000 over 9y, 100% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $29,960,000 over 9y, 6.1% of budgetJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC: $11,500,000 over 3y, 58% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $5,950,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,000,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $4,000,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $3,250,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $2,845,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetJewish Child and Family Services: $2,520,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $2,500,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL: $2,330,063 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetCHICAGO JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $2,229,815 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $2,159,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $2,100,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetTHE ARK: $2,035,000 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $2,000,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $2,000,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC: $2,000,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetECOPEACE MIDDLE EAST ENVIRONMENTAL NGO FORUM: $1,802,500 over 5y, 12% of budgetKESHET: $1,600,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetROCHELLE ZELL JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL: $1,554,375 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $1,550,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA: $1,500,000 over 2y, 64% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $1,500,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $1,500,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSHALVA INC: $1,105,000 over 4y, 31% of budgetNETWORK OF JEWISH HUMAN SERVICE AGENCIES INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 82% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $950,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $860,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMAOT CHITIM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC: $800,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetYESHIVAT MAHARAT INC: $740,000 over 6y, 9.7% of budgetJewish Community Centers of Chicago: $615,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $600,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $600,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $595,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF ELNET: $545,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $500,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation): $330,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetMATAN INC: $300,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetAFSNC INC: $225,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC: $215,200 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MATAN INC: $212,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $175,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $137,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Vocational Service & Employment Center: $100,000 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 UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds Covenant Foundation ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Child and Family Services ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE ARK ↗
  • Who funds SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds The Jerusalem Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds ECOPEACE MIDDLE EAST ENVIRONMENTAL NGO FORUM ↗
  • Who funds KESHET ↗
  • Who funds ROCHELLE ZELL JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds SHALVA INC ↗
  • Who funds NETWORK OF JEWISH HUMAN SERVICE AGENCIES INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) 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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Crown Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Crown Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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 74 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 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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