· Private foundation
George and Sarah Ohlhausen Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $203k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $30,000 |
| WTTW | $25,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $25,000 |
| ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF IDF | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN HILLEL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MICHIGAN HILLEL | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ELNET | $12,500 |
| WORLD ORT | $10,000 |
| YESHIVA UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| THE ARK | $7,500 |
| JOAN BACHS BAIS YAAKOV | $7,500 |
| CJE SENIOR LIFE | $7,500 |
| THE JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WTWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +13%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE7× · 2017–2024 · $118k · revenue +78%
- HMHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $113k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +64%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $10k
- YTYU TORAH MITZION KOLLELone grant, 2017 · $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.
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.
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Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Wisdom without walls is a nonprofit, nondenominational, online learning community that hosts intimate conversations with the most prominent voices in contemporary jewish thought, fostering discussions without ideological barriers.
To provide an education based program in israel for college age jewish young adults that will instill students with a sense of purpose, commitment & pride about
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 28 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 WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ELNET ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WORLD ORT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOVIET JEWRY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds KESHET ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization George and Sarah Ohlhausen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George and Sarah Ohlhausen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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