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Gendell 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.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

International$133kReligion$56kArts & Culture$56kPhilanthropy$54kHealth$53kEducation$49kCrime & Legal$26kCivil Rights$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $34k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$43k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH UNITED FUND$12,120
ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CTR$12,000
FRIENDS OF THE IDF$10,000
NORTH SHORE CONGREGATION ISRAEL$4,264
NORTHSHORE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$3,600
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY$1,800
STANDWITHUS$1,800
SHALVA$1,360
ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND$1,294
SHOMRIM SOCIETY OF IL ENDOWMENT FUND$1,050
Individual grant recipient$1,000
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH$1,000
THE 100 THOUSAND FOUNDATION$1,000
ISRAEL PARASPORT CENTER$536
JCFS CHICAGO$500
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $3k) 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.

area typical 11%SHALVA: $1k → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $500 → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $500 → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $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

IL
NY
MA
IA
IN
NJ
CT
CA
KS
SC
DC
AL
GA
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$303k · 40 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
57

Total granted

$303k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+23%

Still filing today

63%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
Arts & CultureInternationalHealthPhilanthropyEducationCrime & LegalOther

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
    5× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +13%
  • HM
    HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +14%
  • EM
    Elyssas Mission NFP
    7× · 2017–2023 · $26k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • BS
    BRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH CORP
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +4%

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
University of Judaism Foundation
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
4
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
5
National Center for Jewish Filminc

The national center for jewish film is a unique, independent nonprofit motion picture archive, distributor, resource center and exhibitor. ncjf's ongoing mission is the collection, preservation and exhibition of films with artistic and…

Arts & Culture
6
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
7
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

8
The Shalem Foundation

To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.

Crime & Legal
9
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
10
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
11
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
12
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Robert H Levine Foundation. 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 backsteadyJewish Community FederationsPublic University Foundatio…Food Pantries & AssistanceFallen First Responder Supp…Cancer Support OrganizationsIndependent K-8 SchoolsAt-Risk Youth MentoringCommunity Arts OrganizationsYouth Sports Booster Organi…Early Childhood Education C…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…Developmental Disabilities …
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 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%6%5–10yr18%22%10–20yr15%26%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr22%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%1%5–10yr18%12%10–20yr15%7%20–35yr14%17%35–55yr22%64%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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%0/56
the rest of the field
12%
8,891/72,303

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

51 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 102 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
36/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTH SHORE CONGREGATION ISRAEL — $30,570 · OtherNORTH SHORE CONGREGATION ISRAELIIT CHICAGO-KENT COLLEGE OF LAW — $20,000 · OtherIIT CHICAGO-KENT COLLEGE OF LAWISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC — $14,688 · OtherISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INCFRIENDS OF THE IDF — $10,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE IDFUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS — $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISNATIONAL MS SOCIETY — $9,170 · OtherHADASSAH CHICAGO-NORTH SHORE — $7,500 · OtherAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $8,780 · OtherREFUGEEONE — $6,526 · Other+58 more — $60,514 · Other+58 moreJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $126,160 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEM…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLED — $9,420 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SP…+5 more — $11,150 · International+5 moreHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC — $36,375 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST ME…North Shore Center for the Performing Arts Foundation — $10,606 · Arts & CultureNorth Shore …FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $2,800 · Arts & CultureChicago Festival of Israeli Cinema NFP — $1,885 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $4,198 · Arts & Culture+7 moreJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $50,498 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITE…100 THOUSAND FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Philanthropy100 THOUSAND…+4 more — $2,208 · PhilanthropyElyssas Mission NFP — $25,955 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $350 · Crime & LegalNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $12,991 · HealthGASTRO INTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $1,800 · HealthRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC — $1,500 · Health+2 more — $500 · HealthUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $9,950 · EducationWOLCOTT SCHOOL — $500 · Education+1 more — $150 · Education
Other$177,748International$146,730Arts & Culture$55,864Philanthropy$55,706Crime & Legal$26,305Health$19,291Education$10,600

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $126,160 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $50,498 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC — $36,375 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetElyssas Mission NFP — $25,955 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC — $14,688 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $12,991 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Shore Center for the Performing Arts Foundation — $10,606 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $9,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLED — $9,420 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $8,780 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEEONE — $6,526 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $4,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKESHET — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget100 THOUSAND FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $2,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUILD INC — $2,680 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGASTRO INTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRIGHT PROMISES FOUNDATION — $2,360 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $1,985 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Festival of Israeli Cinema NFP — $1,885 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF ELNET — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCarole Robertson Center for Learning — $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Bulls Charities — $1,208 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWriters Theatre Inc — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH POCET — $1,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOLCOTT SCHOOL — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTap Cancer Out Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNE EMAN FOUNDATION USA — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF POLIN MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOR AUTISTIC KIDS FOUNDATION — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLUPUS SOCIETY OF ILLINOIS — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLewy Body Dementia Association Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME — $148 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CHURCHILL SOCIETY — $100 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.

  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC
  • Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
  • Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC
  • Who funds Elyssas Mission NFP
  • Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
  • Who funds North Shore Center for the Performing Arts Foundation
  • Who funds University of Illinois Foundation
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLED
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
  • Who funds REFUGEEONE
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds KESHET
  • Who funds 100 THOUSAND FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH CORP
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
  • Who funds BUILD INC
  • Who funds GASTRO INTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BRIGHT PROMISES FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
  • Who funds Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema NFP
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ELNET
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D
  • Who funds BETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION INC

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 Metropolitan ChicagoIL32.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · Jarvis Foundation · The Bill Bass Foundation · Crain-Maling Foundation · Lachman Foundation · The Bluhm Family Foundation · Hochberg Family Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Gendell 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • City Year Inc11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Gendell Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gendell Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 102 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.

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