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David B Rothschild Mem Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

David B Rothschild Mem Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10k
Granted FY2023
15
Grants FY2023
6
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$16kPhilanthropy$15kReligion$14kEnvironment$5kHealth$4kHuman Services$2kCommunity Improvement$1kInternational$760Other$0
02FY2023 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200
Median grant
6
States reached
$30k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RAVINIA FESTIVAL$4,000
CONGREGATION HAKAFA$2,925
CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN$1,000
JEWISH COUNCIL ON URBAN AFFAIRS$700
WTTW$346
AMERICAN RED CROSS$200
ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL$200
NORTHWOODS WILDLIFE CENTER$200
SPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE$100
DIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION$100
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA$100
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY$100
CHICAGO ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS$100
NATIONAL TAY-SACHS ALLIED DISEASE A$100
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$35
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 (FY19–22, $900) 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%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $100 → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $100 → 14%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $200 → 14%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $100 → 14%CHICAGO CHESED FUND: $300 → 14%CHICAGO CHESED FUND: $100 → 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
SD
VA
MD
AZ
AR
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$58k · 25 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2023, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
19

Total granted

$58k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+26%

Still filing today

76%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsHealthInternationalOther
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
    3× · 2019–2022 · $15k · revenue +57%
  • RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2019–2023 · $8k · revenue +40%
  • TH
    THE HEARD MUSEUM
    3× · 2019–2021 · $3k · revenue +157%

Funded once

  • JC
    JEWISH CHILD FAMILY SERVICES
    one grant, 2022 · $375
  • GI
    GASTRO INTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250 · revenue +584%
  • W
    WBEZ
    one grant, 2020 · $200
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
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
2
Music Institute of Chicago

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Chicago Historical Society

The Chicago History Museum strives to be a destination for learning, inspiration, and civic engagement. Through dynamic exhibitions, tours, programs, digital resources, and special events, the Museum connects people to Chicago's history…

Arts & Culture
4
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
5
Chicago Theatre Group Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
6
The Chicago Bar Foundation

The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.

Education
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
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

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…

Health
9
Chicago Zoological Society

To inspire conservation leadership by connecting people with wildlife and nature.

Animals
10
Lyric Opera of Chicago

We believe in the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Lyric Opera of Chicago exists to provide a broad, deep, and relevant cultural service to the Chicago region and the nation, and to advance the…

Arts & Culture
11
Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
12
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind Or Visually Impaired; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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

28 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. 28 of the 48 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
22/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION HAKAFA: $13,150 · OtherCONGREGATION HAKAFATHE CHICAGO ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS: $1,100 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES LOSS PROGRAM: $800 · Other+30 more: $6,175 · Other+30 moreJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $15,400 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROP…RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $8,000 · Arts & CultureRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATIO…THE HEARD MUSEUM: $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HEARD MUSEUMChicago Humanities Festival: $2,500 · Arts & CultureChicago Humanities FestivalSPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE INC CO ELISE LARSEN: $600 · Arts & CultureWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $546 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $35 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $5,000 · EnvironmentCHICAGO HO…NORTHWOODS WILDLIFE CENTER: $500 · EnvironmentNORTHWOODS…Endeavor Health Clinical Operations: $2,000 · HealthGASTRO INTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $250 · HealthJewish Council on Urban Affairs: $1,200 · Community ImprovementCHICAGO CHESED FUND: $400 · Human ServicesTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $300 · Human ServicesNORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $200 · Human Services
Other$21,225Philanthropy$15,400Arts & Culture$14,681Environment$5,500Health$2,250Community Improvement$1,200Human Services$900

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: $15,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEARD MUSEUM: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Humanities Festival: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Council on Urban Affairs: $1,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE INC CO ELISE LARSEN: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $546 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWOODS WILDLIFE CENTER: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO CHESED FUND: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGASTRO INTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRIO ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORPHANS OF THE STORM: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $35 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.

Jewish Federation of …The Chicago Community…Karmin Family Charita…Circle of Service Fou…National Philanthropi…AbbVie FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · Karmin Family Charitable Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · AbbVie Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 David B Rothschild Mem Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David B Rothschild Mem 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%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 David B Rothschild Mem Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to David B Rothschild Mem 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 48 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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