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Ehrlichman Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$25k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Philanthropy$138kArts & Culture$44kHealth$21kHuman Services$3kEducation$3kReligion$2kEnvironment$760Animals$700Other$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$500
Median grant
10
States reached
$507k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO$11,250
MCCALLUM THEATRE FOUNDATION INC$5,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA$4,800
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$500
EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER$500
MAYO CLINIC$500
FOUNDATION FOR HEARING & SPEECH REHABILITATION$500
DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$500
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC$300
ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND$250
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH$250
NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER$200
LESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER$200
THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC$200
YOUNG LUNG CANCER INITIATIVE INC$200
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER: $250 → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $250 → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $250 → 6%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $200 → 14%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $150 → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $150 → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $150 → 6%NORTHSHORE SENIOR CENTER: $125 → 14%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $150 → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $150 → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $150 → 6%BARBARA SINATRA CHILDREN'S CENTER FOUNDATION: $250 → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF THE DESERT: $250 → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $250 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$155k · 21 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
49

Total granted

$155k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+30%

Still filing today

95%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
    9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +13%
  • RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2017–2022 · $20k · revenue +54%
  • MT
    McCallum Theatre Foundation Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +388%

Funded once

  • MT
    MCCALLUM THEATRE
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • DC
    DOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +110%
  • WI
    WORKING IN THE SCHOOLS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +26%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
2
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
3
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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4
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
5
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
6
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
7
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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8
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
9
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
10
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
11
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
12
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parkinson's Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Barkee Larouxs House of Love Animal Sanctuary Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts CentersJewish Community Organizati…Health Access Advocacy and …Independent K-12 SchoolsAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity College Foundatio…Food Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsCommunity FoundationsLocal History MuseumsCancer Support ServicesDance Arts Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr13%2%5–10yr18%15%10–20yr15%28%20–35yr14%18%35–55yr22%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr18%2%10–20yr15%6%20–35yr14%32%35–55yr22%61%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/70
the rest of the field
12%
8,891/72,289

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 79 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/61
Grantees still filing
49/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $94,518 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO+5 more — $4,900 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA — $38,975 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SP…Beit T'Shuvah — $3,550 · OtherBeit T'ShuvahMCCALLUM THEATRE — $2,500 · Other+30 more — $7,810 · Other+30 moreRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION — $19,646 · Arts & CultureRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSO…McCallum Theatre Foundation Inc — $16,500 · Arts & CultureMcCallum Theatre Foun…PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM — $3,320 · Arts & CulturePALM SPRINGS ART MUSE…+6 more — $1,950 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH — $5,650 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR HEARING AND SPEECH RESOURCES — $2,500 · HealthEisenhower Medical Center — $1,250 · HealthDOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE INC — $1,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $800 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $500 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $450 · Health+6 more — $1,350 · HealthISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND — $1,650 · Human ServicesAARP FOUNDATION — $330 · Human ServicesNORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER — $325 · Human ServicesJewish Community Centers of Chicago — $250 · Human ServicesThe Barbara Sinatra Childrens Center Foundation — $250 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT — $250 · Human ServicesRANCHO MIRAGE LIBRARY & OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION — $600 · EducationWORKING IN THE SCHOOLS INC — $500 · EducationUniversity of Miami — $500 · EducationFrancis W Parker School — $250 · EducationUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $200 · EducationTHE COVE SCHOOL INC — $200 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $190 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $100 · EducationALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY — $250 · Housing & ShelterSAINT ANDREW'S LIGHTHOUSE INC — $250 · Housing & ShelterLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION — $200 · Housing & ShelterLESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER — $200 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$99,418Other$52,835Arts & Culture$41,416Health$13,500Human Services$3,055Education$2,540Housing & Shelter$900

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $94,518 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA — $38,975 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION — $19,646 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMcCallum Theatre Foundation Inc — $16,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH — $5,650 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah — $3,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM — $3,320 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR HEARING AND SPEECH RESOURCES — $2,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND — $1,650 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center — $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHighland Park Community Foundation — $1,150 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMichael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation — $850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRANCHO MIRAGE LIBRARY & OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION — $600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWORKING IN THE SCHOOLS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION — $330 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER — $325 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $260 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Community Centers of Chicago — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFrancis W Parker School — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Barbara Sinatra Childrens Center Foundation — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOTANIC GARDENS CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL US INC — $250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEndeavor Health Clinical Operations — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT ANDREW'S LIGHTHOUSE INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDogs For Our Brave Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWARREN BILLY CHERRY SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LUNG CANCER INITIATIVE INC — $200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI CITY BALLET INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Federation of …Kovler Family Foundat…Milwaukee Jewish Fede…The Chicago Community…Circle of Service Fou…AbbVie FoundationMardell Family Charit…Karmin Family Charita…Robert and Susan Diam…Crain-Maling Foundati…The Robert Thomas Bob…Jarvis Foundation
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL38.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Kovler Family Foundation · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Mardell Family Charitable Fdn · Karmin Family Charitable Trust · Robert and Susan Diamond Foundation · Crain-Maling Foundation · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Jarvis Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Ehrlichman Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 79 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines