· Private foundation
Five C Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLARION PROJECT INC | $30,000 |
| AM YISRAEL CHAI FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $15,000 |
| MERKOS LINYOUNEI CHINUCH LUBAVITCH OF INDIANA INC | $15,000 |
| CHICAGO CHESED FUND | $10,000 |
| OPENDOR MEDIA INC | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION OR TORAH | $7,465 |
| GREEN ROAD SYNAGOGUE | $6,870 |
| PROJECT 613 NFP | $5,000 |
| UNITED NATIONS WATCH USA | $5,000 |
| JET-JEWISH EDUCATIONAL TEAM INC | $5,000 |
| JEM FOUNDATION INC | $4,000 |
| CHABAD LUBAVITCH ON CAMPUS-PRINCETON | $3,600 |
| J-GIVE-FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC | $2,500 |
| HASTEN HEBREW ACADEMY OF INDIANAPOLIS | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $10k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
Religious School
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
Provide support to further jewish education
Furtherance of jewish education
To further jewish education in israel
To strengthen the connection between jewish people and their faith, traditions and homeland
Make an authentic jewish education, coupled with an excellent secular education, available and affordable to all jewish families in the chicagoland community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opendor Media Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
11 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. 11 of the 24 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CLARION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AM YISRAEL CHAI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds MERKOS L INYOUNEI CHINUCH LUBAVITCH OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds OPENDOR MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHESED FUND ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 613 NFP ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS WATCH - USA ↗
- Who funds JET - JEWISH EDUCATION TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds JEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hasten Hebrew Academy of Indianapolis ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment 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 Five C Foundation Inc 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.
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.