· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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 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%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO9× · 2017–2025 · $89M · revenue +13%
- CFCovenant Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $49M · revenue +51% · 100% of their budget
- JFJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC3× · 2019–2023 · $12M · revenue +69% · 58% of their budget
Funded once
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museumgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5.0M · revenue +34%
- JTJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICAone grant, 2019 · $2.0M
- SHSINAI HEALTH SYSTEMgraduatedone 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.
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.
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…
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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,…
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…
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…
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
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.
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 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.
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
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.
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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