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George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
150
Grants FY2024
152
Organizations funded FY2023
19%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,275,000
Organizations funded a year
152 to 161
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$40M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 19% of the organizations George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $242k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionEducationReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving149$2.7M13%
FY2023152$2.7M19%
FY2022158$2.8M37%
FY2021154$2.8M21%
FY2020161$3.8Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$14MHuman Services$3.5MHousing & Shelter$695kFood & Nutrition$334kEducation$294kYouth Development$217kCrime & Legal$60kRecreation & Sports$33kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago$2,650,00050%
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago$2,500,00050%
Misericordia Home$900,00050%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Chicagoland & Nw Indiana$150,00040%
Loyola University of Chicago$126,79330%
Ronald McDonald House Charities Midwest Mn Wi Ia$125,00051%
Gift of Life Inc$60,00041%
Northern Illinois Food Bank$45,00040%
Community Health NFP$40,00040%
Beyond Hunger$40,00040%
Deborah's Place$39,00050%
IMD Guest House Foundation$38,00050%
Wings Program Inc$38,00050%
Cool Ministries$37,50051%
Sisterhouse$37,50052%
Easter Seals Dupage & the Fox Valley Region$37,50050%
Will Grundy Medical Clinic$35,00051%
Connections for the Homeless Inc$34,00050%
Home of the Sparrow Inc$33,00050%
South Suburban Pads$32,50050%
Leukemia Research Foundation$32,00040%
Greek American Rehabilitation and Care Centre$31,00050%
Salvation Army$30,0002n/a
Illinois College of Optometry$30,00030%
Mutual Ground Inc$28,00050%
Northwestern University Settlement Association$27,50040%
Little Sisters of the Poor Chicago St Mary's Home$27,00050%
Margarets Village$25,50030%
Family Rescue Inc$25,00050%
Dupage Pads Inc$25,00050%
A Just Harvest$25,00051%
Chicago Lights$25,00050%
The Harbour Inc$25,00050%
New Moms Inc$25,00050%
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Joliet$25,00050%
360 Youth Services$25,00010%
Crisis Center for South Suburbia$25,00050%
Pads to Hope Dba-Journeys the Road Home$25,00050%
Renaissance Social Services Inc$25,00050%
Hephzibah Children's Association$25,00050%
The Night Ministry$25,00050%
Loaves & Fishes Community Services$25,00050%
Avenues to Independence$24,65550%
The Cradle Foundation$24,00050%
Oak Park River Forest Infant Welfare S$24,00030%
One Love Global Wellness Foundation$23,00058%
My Joyful Heart Nfp$23,00052%
Gilda's Club Chicago$22,00041%
Sarah's Inn$22,00050%
Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry$21,00030%
Housing Opportunities for Women Inc$21,00030%
St Coletta's of Illinois$20,00040%
Howard Area Community Center$20,00040%
Little Sisters of the Poor Palatine St Josephs Home for the Elderly$20,00040%
The Boulevard of Chicago Inc$20,00040%
Disabled Patriot Fund Inc$20,00044%
South Suburban Special Recreation Association$20,00050%
Salute Inc$20,00041%
Sarah's Circle$20,00030%
All Chicago Making Homelessness History$20,00040%
People's Resource Center$20,00040%
The Lambs Farm Inc$20,00040%
Community Crisis Center Inc$20,00040%
Bridge Communities Inc$20,00040%
Matthew House Inc$19,00050%
Turning Point Inc$19,00040%
Fellowship Housing Corporation$19,00050%
Housing Opportunities and Maintenance for the Elderly Inc$18,00030%
North Side Housing and Supportive Services$18,00040%
Operation Blessing of Southwest Chicagoland$18,00030%
Youth Outreach Services Inc$18,00040%
Alicia's House Inc$16,00054%
Will County Center for Community Concerns$16,00040%
Housing Forward$16,00030%
Maryville Academy$15,00010%
PrimeCare Community Health Inc$15,00030%
Rebuilding Together North Suburban Chicago$15,00031%
Children's Research Triangle$15,00050%
Police Chaplains Ministry Fund$15,00041%
La Casa Norte$15,00030%
Roseland Training Center$15,0005n/a
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois$15,0001n/a
Casa Kane County$15,00050%
Housing Options for the Mentally-Ill in Evanston Inc$15,00030%
Public Action to Deliver Shelter Inc D/B/A Hesed House$15,00030%
The Center for Enriched Living Inc$13,00030%
Senior Home Sharing$12,00041%
Old Irving Park Community Clinic$12,00040%
Ignite$12,00030%
Erie Family Health Center Inc$12,00040%
Shelter Inc$12,00020%
Familyforward$12,00041%
Donka Incorporated$11,00041%
Morning Star Mission Ministries Inc$11,00030%
St Marys Services$10,50040%
Infant Welfare Society of Chicago$10,00030%
Northwest Compass Inc$10,00020%
Omni Youth Services Incorporated$10,00040%
Oak Leyden Developmental Services Inc$10,00020%
PADS Lake County Inc$10,00020%
Pads of Elgin Inc$10,00021%
Nourishing Hope$10,00010%
Little City Foundation$10,00020%
Meals at Home$10,00021%
Lifeline Inc$10,00021%
Hippocratic Cancer Research Foundation Inc$10,000110%
Illinois Partners in Hope Nfp$10,00021%
Alexian Brothers Bonaventure House$10,00020%
Chicago Children's Advocacy Center$10,00020%
Hunger Resource Network$10,00023%
Association House of Chicago$9,00030%
Barrington Area Council on Aging Inc$9,00030%
A Safe Haven Foundation$9,00030%
Casa Central Social Services Corporation$9,00030%
The Friendship Center$9,00020%
Suburban Primary Health Care Council D/B/A Access to Care$9,00030%
Chicago Youth Centers$9,00030%
The Center of Concern$9,00030%
Build Inc$9,00030%
The Beacon Place NFP$8,50040%
Alternatives Inc$8,00040%
The Miracle League of Joliet$8,00043%
Collective Chicago$8,00031%
Second Sense$8,00030%
Safe Families for Children Alliance$8,00030%
Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center$8,00040%
Friends of Fisher House - Illinois Inc$8,00021%
Fresh Start Surgical Gifts$8,00020%
Meals on Wheels Foundation of Northern Illinois$8,00020%
Have Dreams$8,00040%
Lemons of Love Inc$8,00040%
Alexian Brothers Center for Mental Health$8,00020%
Maplewood Housing for Visually Impaired D/B/A Friedman Place$7,00020%
Gads Hill Center$7,00030%
Southside Center of Hope$7,00021%
Corazon A Corazon$6,00031%
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Cook County$6,00020%
Casa of Dupage County Inc$6,00020%
Suicide Prevention Services Inc$6,00030%
Samaritan Interfaith Counseling Center$6,00030%
Child's Voice School$6,00020%
Gigis Playhouse Inc$6,0003n/a
North Shore Senior Center$6,00020%
Catalyst Ministries$5,50021%
L'Arche Chicago Inc$5,00010%
Common Pantry$5,00020%
Will County Habitat for Humanity$5,00020%
Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana$5,00010%
Dupage Senior Citizens Council$5,00010%
St Bernard Hospital$5,00010%
Eldercare Lake County$5,00021%
Zion Benton Children's Service$5,00014%
Community Youth Network Inc$5,00010%
Christian Community Health Center$5,00010%
Stars Family Services$5,00031%
Window to the World Communications Inc$5,00050%
Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry Inc$5,00010%
Hcs Family Services$5,00010%
Family Health Partnership Clinic$5,00010%
Lutheran Life Communities Foundation$5,00011%
Mercy Housing Lakefront$5,00020%
Devices 4 the Disabled$5,00020%
The Lake County Haven$5,00010%
Youth and Family Counseling$4,00020%
The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired$4,00020%
Peer Services Inc$4,00020%
Nami of Dupage County Illinois$4,00020%
Arlington Heights Senior Center Inc$4,0002n/a
Outreach Community Ministries$4,00020%
Rainbows for All Children Inc$4,00021%
Orchard Village$4,00020%
Aspire of Illinois$3,00010%
Tutoring Chicago$3,00010%
Let It Be US$3,00010%
Casa Lake County Inc$3,00010%
The Thresholds$3,00010%
The Port Ministries$3,00010%
Transitional Living Services Inc$3,00010%
Of Color Inc$3,00010%
Youth Crossroads Inc$3,00010%
Howard Brown Health Center$3,00010%
Clearbrook$3,00010%
Search Inc$3,00010%
Chicago Commons Association$3,00010%
The Renaissance Collaborative Inc$3,00010%
The Lyte Collective$3,00011%
African American Christian Foundation$3,00010%
Care for Real$3,00010%
Chicago Furniture Bank$2,50010%
Keeping Families Covered$2,00010%
Wellness House$2,00010%
Connections to Care$2,00012%
Southside Pregnancy Center Inc$2,00010%
Juvenile Protective Association$2,00010%
Operation North Pole Inc$2,00011%
Lester and Rosalie Anixter Center$2,00010%
Youth Advocate Programs Inc$2,00010%
Haven Youth and Family Services Inc$2,00010%
Thrive Counseling Center$2,00010%
Stepping Stones Inc$2,00010%
Facing Forward to End Homelessness$2,00010%
Lincoln Park Village Inc$2,00010%
Wayside Cross Ministries$2,0001n/a
Chicago Youth Programs Inc$2,00010%
Maywood Fine Arts Association$2,00010%
Heartland Human Care Services Inc$2,00010%
Teen Challenge Illinois$2,00010%
Little Brothers - Friends of the Elderly$1,50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 92 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.8M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $2,650,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $2,500,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMisericordia Home: $900,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Chicagoland & Nw Indiana: $150,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLoyola University of Chicago: $126,793 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities Midwest Mn Wi Ia: $125,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGift of Life Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNorthern Illinois Food Bank: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Health NFP: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBeyond Hunger: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDeborah's Place: $39,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetIMD Guest House Foundation: $38,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWings Program Inc: $38,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCool Ministries: $37,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSisterhouse: $37,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetEaster Seals Dupage & the Fox Valley Region: $37,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWill Grundy Medical Clinic: $35,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetConnections for the Homeless Inc: $34,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHome of the Sparrow Inc: $33,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Suburban Pads: $32,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLeukemia Research Foundation: $32,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGreek American Rehabilitation and Care Centre: $31,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois College of Optometry: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMutual Ground Inc: $28,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNorthwestern University Settlement Association: $27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Sisters of the Poor Chicago St Mary's Home: $27,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMargarets Village: $25,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFamily Rescue Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDupage Pads Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetA Just Harvest: $25,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetChicago Lights: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Harbour Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNew Moms Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Diocese of Joliet: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budget360 Youth Services: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCrisis Center for South Suburbia: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPads to Hope Dba-Journeys the Road Home: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetRenaissance Social Services Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHephzibah Children's Association: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Night Ministry: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLoaves & Fishes Community Services: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAvenues to Independence: $24,655 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cradle Foundation: $24,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOak Park River Forest Infant Welfare S: $24,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOne Love Global Wellness Foundation: $23,000 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetMy Joyful Heart Nfp: $23,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetGilda's Club Chicago: $22,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSarah's Inn: $22,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL122.7× affinity72 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · Helen V Brach Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · WP & HB White Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · The a Montgomery Ward Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · All Chicago Making Homelessness History

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.

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About George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities

How much does George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities give?
George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities reported 150 grants totaling $3,965,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 152 and 161 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (73%), Human Services (18%), Housing & Shelter (4%).
Who are George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ($2.6M), Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ($2.5M), Misericordia Home ($900k).
Does George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation, Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust.
Where is George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities based?
George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities is based in IL.

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 301 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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