· Private foundation
Foxman Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $74k
- $250k+1 grant · $305k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ElNet | $305,000 |
| Jewish United Fund | $74,215 |
| Individual grant recipient | $36,000 |
| Chabad of N Broward County | $18,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 66% of grant dollars ($2.6M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 34% that went abroad ($1.3M) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $400) 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 34% of all-years giving ($1.3M)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO8× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +13%
- EElNet6× · 2017–2025 · $848k
- NSNorth Shore Synagogue Beth El2× · 2020–2024 · $124k
Funded once
- JJJUF - Jewish United Fundone grant, 2024 · $248k
- FFelnetone grant, 2019 · $186k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $165k
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.
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…
Mission: Inspired by their history and values, Jewish Family Service supports the needs of Jewish individuals and families, refugees and immigrants, and the broader community to achieve well-being, health, and stability. From food security…
JCC Chicago is building community, supporting individuals and families, and growing hope through Jewish connections for everyone.
To raise and distribute funds, goods, food, and assistance to the poverty-stricken in the jewish community.
The federation supports a variety of jewish projects and causes with the goals of fostering meaningful and vibrant jewish life at home and abroad and assisting broader humanitarian activities.
The Jewish Council on Urban Affair's (JCUA) longstanding mission is to combat poverty, racism and antisemitism working in partnership with diverse communities. JCUA uses a community organizing model to engage the Jewish community in the…
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…
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…
Chabad of River North and Fulton Market is an organization dedicated to furthering the religious, educational, and chartable needs of the Jewish Community and /or of the neighbors of River North and Fulton Market.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 50 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Foxman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foxman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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