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Edidin Family Charitable Trust at a glance

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Edidin Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$28k
Granted FY2018
23
Grants FY2018
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Philanthropy$20kHealth$16kHuman Services$5kArts & Culture$3kCivil Rights$3kEducation$2kCrime & Legal$2kInternational$2kOther$0
02FY2018 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k22 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$360
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH UNITED FUND$10,000
LIFE FOR A CHILD USA$5,000
NORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY$2,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$2,000
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$1,500
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE$1,000
BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE FOR THE PUBLIC INTEREST$1,000
FRIENDS OF THE GREEN BAY TRAIL$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL$1,000
THE PENN FUND$1,000
KESHET$500
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION$360
WRITERS THEATER$250
SPECIAL OLYMPICS$180
FAMILY SERVICES OF GLENCOE$150
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 (FY17–18, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILY SERVICES OF GLENCOE: $150 → 14%FAMILY SERVICES OF GLENCOE: $150 → 14%GLENCOE YOUTH SERVICES: $100 → 14%GLENCOE YOUTH SERVICES: $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.
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$49k · 18 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
11

Total granted

$49k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+116%

Still filing today

61%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentFood & NutritionPhilanthropyHealthOther
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
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +13%
  • LF
    LIFE FOR A CHILD USA INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +252%
  • PA
    President and Fellows of Middlebury College
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +116%
  • AA
    ALEPPO ASSISTANCE FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CHICAG LAW SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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 Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education
2
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago

Federation amplifies our collective strength to make the world a better place for everyone. we assist people in need, impact chicagoans of all faiths; support israel and the jewish people worldwide; respond swiftly to crises; cultivate…

Philanthropy
3
Jewish Child and Family Services

JCFS Chicago services and programs support wellbeing for children, teens, adults and families regardless of race, culture, religion, disability, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, or…

Human Services
4
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
5
Loyola University of Chicago

We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.

Education
6
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

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7
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
8
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
9
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
10
Jewish Graduate Student Initiative

To support jewish life on graduate school campuses and to connect jewish graduate students, alumni, and executives to their heritage and the greater jewish community.

Education
11
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
12
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Facing History & Ourselves Inc; the most unlike its peers is Multiple Sclerosis 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

19 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. 19 of the 35 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)
19/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $20,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CH…NORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY: $5,000 · OtherNORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAYPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $4,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODTHE PENN FUND: $2,000 · OtherTHE PENN FUNDALEPPO ASSISTANCE FUND: $1,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CHICAG LAW SCHOOL: $1,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL: $1,000 · OtherKESHET: $1,000 · OtherMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC: $720 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE GREEN BAY TRAIL: $1,000 · OtherAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $1,000 · Other+17 more: $3,785 · Other+17 moreLIFE FOR A CHILD USA INC: $10,000 · HealthLIFE FOR A CHILD U…AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $3,000 · Civil RightsChicago Symphony Orchestra: $1,500 · Arts & CultureWriters Theatre Inc: $400 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $360 · Arts & CulturePresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $2,000 · EducationIMPACT FOR EQUITY: $2,000 · Crime & Legal
Philanthropy$20,000Other$21,505Health$10,000Civil Rights$3,000Arts & Culture$2,260Education$2,000Crime & Legal$2,000

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: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE FOR A CHILD USA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT FOR EQUITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKESHET: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC: $720 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWriters Theatre Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTAOS LAND TRUST: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLENCOE YOUTH SERVICES A CORPORATION: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORT AMERICA INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlencoe Historical Society: $175 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $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.

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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 Edidin Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edidin Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 35 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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