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Curt and Linda Rodin Family Foundation at a glance

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Curt and Linda Rodin Family 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.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$1.1M
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$4.2MPhilanthropy$370kHuman Services$117kReligion$102kHealth$90kArts & Culture$62kInternational$36kFood & Nutrition$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.0M
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$1,090,893
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY$511,984
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO SCHOOL OF LAW$400,000
NORTH SHORE FOUNDATION$50,000
JEWISH UNITED FUND$50,000
WTTW$10,000
CONGREGATION OR SHALOM$8,235
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION$5,000
CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM$4,141
NORTH SHORE CONGREGATION ISRAEL$3,776
AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION$3,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$1,800
FAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE$1,200
CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN$450
PLAY FOR PINK$50
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $112k) 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.

area typical 10%BOYS TOWN: $500 → 12%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $10k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE: $1k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE: $1k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE: $500 → 14%LITTLE GIRAFFE FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%LITTLE GIRAFFE FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION: $29k → 14%AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION: $24k → 14%AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION: $14k → 14%AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION: $7k → 14%AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION: $4k → 14%AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION: $4k → 14%AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION: $4k → 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

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
TN
DC
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 33 repeat orgs$592k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
27

Total granted

$4.5M
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+19%

Still filing today

76%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $517k 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
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • University of Chicago
    8× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +56%
  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    9× · 2017–2025 · $260k · revenue +13%
  • AT
    AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $98k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • NC
    NORTH CENTRAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • AH
    AMITA HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
2
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
3
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
4
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
5
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
6
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
7
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
8
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
9
The Carle Foundation Hospital

To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.

Health
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
12
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is North Central Health Foundation Inc. 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

43 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. 43 of the 63 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
31/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Chicago: $2,122,870 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $511,984 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO+3 more: $38,500 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO SCHOOL OF LAW: $1,555,143 · OtherLOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO SCHOOL OF LAWNORTH SHORE FOUNDATION: $110,000 · OtherNORTH SHORE FOUNDATION+32 more: $186,828 · Other+32 moreJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $260,000 · PhilanthropyAVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION: $97,525 · Human ServicesNo One Left Behind: $15,000 · Human ServicesYoung Eisner Scholars: $10,000 · Human Services+3 more: $4,200 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $26,800 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $21,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $20,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $7,500 · International+2 more: $1,300 · InternationalEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $30,000 · HealthNORTH CENTRAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · HealthEB RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INC: $12,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $8,000 · HealthAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Health+2 more: $550 · HealthWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,500 · Arts & Culture
Education$2,673,354Other$1,851,971Philanthropy$260,000Human Services$126,725International$76,600Health$76,050Arts & Culture$71,500

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 budgetUniversity of Chicago: $2,122,870 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $511,984 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $260,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION: $97,525 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $37,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $26,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNo One Left Behind: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEB RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budget350ORG: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Eisner Scholars: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $4,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $3,050 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE: $2,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKESHET: $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPathways Early Education Center of Immokalee Inc: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE GIRAFFE FOUNDATION LTD: $1,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHELPS INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORPHANS OF THE STORM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois Bar Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC: $200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION FOR EAGLE COUNTY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…The Chicago Community…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA11.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Chicago Community Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Curt and Linda Rodin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Curt and Linda Rodin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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

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    How do I get to Curt and Linda Rodin Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Curt and Linda Rodin Family 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 63 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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