· Private foundation
Ellen Soren 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k12 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $10,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| LYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FDN | $10,000 |
| ANTI-SEMITISM DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| PAWS | $5,000 |
| LYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FDN | $3,000 |
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| UNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM | $2,500 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $2,000 |
| HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY FDN | $2,000 |
| GREATER CHGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $2,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,000 |
| GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $500 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
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 +52% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 15 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LSLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $70k · revenue +134%
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago5× · 2017–2021 · $55k · revenue +60%- RMRonald McDonald House Global5× · 2017–2021 · $50k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- PCPROSPER CHICAGO INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -97%
- SGSUSAN G KOMEN RACE FOR THE CUREone grant, 2017 · $5k
- IHILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUMone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.
We are dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for the northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a leader in: -pediatric health care delivery…
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…
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,…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.
SRAlab is dedicated to providing the best patient outcomes through the highest-quality clinical care, translational research, scientific discovery and education.
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
How this is measured
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 40 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 LYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds Francis W Parker School ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds PROSPER CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds LUMINARTS CULTURAL FOUNDATION THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CAMP OF DREAMS ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds CANCER WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Chicago Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds FOR AUTISTIC KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ellen Soren Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ellen Soren Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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