· Private foundation
Dan J Epstein Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $212k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $644k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JULLIARD SCHOOL | $196,399 |
| Individual grant recipient | $115,000 |
| NEW WORLD SYMPHONY | $102,500 |
| FORWARD MOMENTUM CHICAGO | $100,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $70,000 |
| HOLOCAUST MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES | $60,000 |
| ALAS-WINGS | $30,750 |
| NY STEM CELL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $30,000 |
| CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $25,709 |
| THE NEW SCHOOL NYC | $25,000 |
| HYDE PARK ARTS CENTER | $20,000 |
| UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,422 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% of its 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $192k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JSJUILLIARD SCHOOL6× · 2019–2024 · $802k · revenue +75%
- NWNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $570k · revenue +17%
- FMFORWARD MOMENTUM CHICAGO5× · 2019–2024 · $297k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- RURush University Medical Centerone grant, 2022 · $43k · revenue +6%
- RHRUSH HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $40k
- LOLyric Opera of Chicagoone grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue -1%
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.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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…
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University ("The Auditorium"), an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, is committed to presenting the finest in international, cultural, community and educational programming to Chicago and to the…
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…
The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
How this is measured
45 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. 45 of the 72 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 JUILLIARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds FORWARD MOMENTUM CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds ASOCIACION LATINA DE ASISTENCIA Y PREVENCION DEL CANCER DE MAMA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds HYDE PARK ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds Jazz Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE JOFFREY BALLET ↗
- Who funds The People's Music School ↗
- Who funds Marwen Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Albany Park Theater Project ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hyde Park Jazz Festival ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONETABLE INC ↗
- Who funds SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Prince Foundation · Reva and David Logan Foundation · Fulk Family Foundation Inc · Walder Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dan J Epstein Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dan J Epstein Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- New World Symphony Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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