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Generations of Giving Foundation Inc at a glance

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Generations of Giving Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$768k
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.4MReligion$463kInternational$405kHealth$313kPhilanthropy$283kFood & Nutrition$80kHuman Services$42kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $415k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROTHERS FOR LIFE$100,000
THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA$100,000
EXTENSIONS DANCE CO$50,000
NASCAR FOUNDATION$50,000
BRUCE WOOD DANCE CO INC$30,000
NASCAR HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION$30,000
NAMI CHICAGO$30,000
C21 WOMENS ENSEMBLE$25,000
ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER$25,000
STANDWITHUS$25,000
SAN DIEGO JEWISH EXPERIENCE INC$25,000
GRANDE PRAIRIE CHORAL ARTS$25,000
JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO$20,000
UNITED NATIONS WATCH - USA$20,000
NOURISHING HOPE$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SAMUEL AND ALTHEA STROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER O: $12k → 9%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
CA
NC
DC
OK
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 49 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

49 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
7

Total granted

$2.8M
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+57%

Still filing today

78%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyEmploymentHuman ServicesHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BF
    Brothers for Life
    5× · 2020–2024 · $470k · revenue +569%
  • TS
    THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $280k · revenue +52%
  • ED
    Extensions Dance Company
    5× · 2020–2024 · $205k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • SA
    SAMUEL AND ALTHEA STROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +88%
  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +17%
  • NM
    NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE-NORTHWESTERN MEMO
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture
2
Music and Dance Theater Chicago Inc
Arts & Culture
3
Chicago City Theatre Company dba Joel Hall Dancers & Center

To enrich the lives of our community through dance education and performance while developing Chicago's native talent pool in a welcoming environment that celebrates multiculturalism & ethnic diversity.

Arts & Culture
4
Lyric Opera of Chicago

We believe in the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Lyric Opera of Chicago exists to provide a broad, deep, and relevant cultural service to the Chicago region and the nation, and to advance the…

Arts & Culture
5
The Chicago High School for the Arts

The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…

Education
6
Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc

The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University ("The Auditorium"), an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, is committed to presenting the finest in international, cultural, community and educational programming to Chicago and to the…

Arts & Culture
7
Chicago Sinfonietta Inc

Chicago Sinfonietta is a professional orchestra dedicated to modeling and promoting diversity, inclusion, and both racial and cultural equity in the arts through the universal language of symphonic music. Our core values are built around…

Arts & Culture
8
Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre

To use multiple artistic forms (primarily dance and music) and the combined talents of our diverse company to convey intense personal narratives. We are proudly and visibly multicultural, exploring the intersection of heritage, culture,…

Arts & Culture
9
Chicago Shakespeare Theater

To create vivid, entertaining theatrical experiences that invigorate and engage people of all ages and identities by illuminating the complexity, ambiguity, and wonder of our world. shared humanity and unforgettable stories - now this is…

Arts & Culture
10
Chamber Opera of Chicago
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11
Chicago Humanities Festival

To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
12
Visceral Dance Chicago Nfp

Visceral Dance Chicago is a contemporary company dedicated to providing a comprehensive environment designed to cultivate dance education, creation and performance for choreographers, dancers, and artists.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Theatre Group Inc; the most unlike its peers is C21 Womens Ensemble. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 60 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
39/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Brothers for Life: $470,000 · Arts & CultureBrothers for LifeExtensions Dance Company: $205,000 · Arts & CultureExtensions Dance CompanyBRUCE WOOD DANCE CO INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureBRUCE WOOD DANCE CO INCHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS IN…C21 Womens Ensemble: $60,000 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $235,000 · Arts & Culture+14 moreSAN DIEGO JEWISH EXPERIENCE INC: $108,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO JEWISH EXPERIENCE INCMOTORSPORTS CHARITIES INC - NASCAR FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherMOTORSPORTS CHARITIES INC - NAS…GRANDE PRAIRIE CHORAL ARTS: $85,000 · OtherGRANDE PRAIRIE CHORAL ARTSNASCAR HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION: $65,000 · OtherNASCAR HALL OF FAME FOUNDATIONNOURISHING HOPE: $55,000 · OtherNOURISHING HOPETHE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC: $50,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING …MISSION OF OUR LADY OF MERCY - MERCY HOME FOR BOYS: $50,000 · OtherMISSION OF OUR LADY OF MERCY - …NAMI Chicago: $45,000 · OtherNAMI ChicagoMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $35,000 · OtherGUS GIORDANO'S JAZZ DANCE CHICAGO INC D/B/A GIORDANO DANCE CHICAGO: $35,000 · Other+17 more: $194,500 · Other+17 moreTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $280,000 · InternationalTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INS…ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $110,000 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIA…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC: $70,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SH…BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUN…ART OVER HATE COLLECTIVE INC F/K/N ARTISTS 4 ISRAEL INC: $35,000 · InternationalART OVER HATE COLLECTI…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC: $30,000 · International+2 more: $30,000 · InternationalJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $100,000 · PhilanthropyMOTORSPORTS CHARITIES INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyDESIGNS FOR DIGNITY: $17,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED NATIONS WATCH - USA: $80,000 · Civil RightsONETABLE INC: $55,000 · ReligionCAL'S ALL-STAR ANGEL FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$1,170,000Other$822,500International$605,000Philanthropy$217,500Civil Rights$80,000Religion$55,000Education$35,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBrothers for Life: $470,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $280,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetExtensions Dance Company: $205,000 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetBRUCE WOOD DANCE CO INC: $125,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $110,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOTORSPORTS CHARITIES INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED NATIONS WATCH - USA: $80,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $75,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC: $70,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetC21 Womens Ensemble: $60,000 over 3y, 65% of budgetONETABLE INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNOURISHING HOPE: $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI Chicago: $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetART OVER HATE COLLECTIVE INC F/K/N ARTISTS 4 ISRAEL INC: $35,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetCAL'S ALL-STAR ANGEL FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGUS GIORDANO'S JAZZ DANCE CHICAGO INC D/B/A GIORDANO DANCE CHICAGO: $35,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCHICAGO DANCE CRASH NFP: $33,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC: $30,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCE: $20,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetTHE LAMBS FARM INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BLUES THEATER NFP: $20,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE LAWFARE PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTH CHICAGO DANCE THEATRE: $17,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetDESIGNS FOR DIGNITY: $17,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTEXAS INTERNATIONAL THEATRICAL ARTS SOCIETY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWriters Theatre Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAMUEL AND ALTHEA STROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVictory Gardens Theater: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHOREGUS PRODUCTIONS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSTEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDRENS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $2,500 over 1y, 20% of budget
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.

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.

John D and Catherine …Lloyd a Fry FoundationThe Chicago Community…Polk Bros Foundation …Arie and Ida Crown Me…The Shubert Foundatio…Alphawood FoundationThe Coleman Foundatio…Ncrc Community Develo…Gaylord and Dorothy D…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Prince Foundation
John D and Catherine T Macarthur FoundationIL21.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Alphawood Foundation · The Coleman Foundation Inc · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Prince Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Generations of Giving Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Generations of Giving Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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