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George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities at a glance

· Private foundation

George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
150
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.3M
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.

Health$14MHuman Services$3.5MHousing & Shelter$695kFood & Nutrition$334kEducation$294kYouth Development$217kCrime & Legal$60kRecreation & Sports$33kOther$0
02FY2024 · 150 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k129 grants · $547k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $270k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $323k
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.8M
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAYO CLINIC$1,275,000
ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO$530,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY FOR FEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OFFICE DEVELOPMENT$520,000
REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$500,000
MISERICORDIA HOME$180,000
NORTHWEST COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION$143,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SPRINGFIELD IN ILLINOIS INC$30,000
MARKLUND CHILDREN'S HOME PHILIP CENTER IN BLOOMINGDALE$25,000
360 YOUTH SERVICES$25,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF ROCHESTER MN INC$25,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA$25,000
LA RABIDA CHILDRENS HOSPITALITY AND RECREATIONAL CENTER$20,000
THE SALVATION ARMY OF ROCHSTER MN$20,000
GILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO$15,000
MARYVILLE ACADEMY THE EISENBERG CAMPUS$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LIFELINE INC: $5k → 14%LIFELINE INC: $5k → 14%TURNING POINT INC: $5k → 6%TURNING POINT INC: $5k → 6%START FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 7%TURNING POINT INC: $5k → 6%MUTUAL GROUND INC: $6k → 8%MORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 7%MUTUAL GROUND INC: $6k → 8%MUTUAL GROUND INC: $6k → 8%MUTUAL GROUND INC: $6k → 8%PADS PUBLIC ACTIONTO DELIVER SHELTER INC: $5k → 8%DUPAGE SENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL: $5k → 7%PADS PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC DNA HESED HOUSE INC: $5k → 8%MARIE WILKINSON FOOD PANTY: $5k → 8%ALLICIAS HOUSE: $5k → 7%PADS PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC DNA HESED HOUSE INC: $5k → 8%COMMUNITY YOUTH NETWORK INC: $5k → 8%ALLICIAS HOUSE: $5k → 7%MY JOYFUL HEART: $5k → 7%COOL MINISTRIES: $8k → 8%COOL MINISTRIES: $8k → 8%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND AND NW INDIANA: $50k → 7%COOL MINISTRIES: $8k → 8%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND AND NW INDIANA: $50k → 7%COOL MINISTRIES: $8k → 8%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA: $25k → 7%COOL MINISTRIES: $8k → 8%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA: $25k → 7%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $15k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $180k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $180k → 14%360 YOUTH SERVICES: $25k → 7%MISERICORDIA HOME: $180k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $180k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $180k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $8k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $8k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $8k → 14%THE HARBOUR INC: $10k → 14%SISTER HOUSE: $8k → 14%SISTER HOUSE: $8k → 14%SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $8k → 14%SISTER HOUSE: $8k → 14%SISTER HOUSE: $8k → 14%SISTER HOUSE: $8k → 14%SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $8k → 14%SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $8k → 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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 212 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

212 repeat relationships: 129 still active in FY2024, 83 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

212
68

Total granted

$13M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+26%

Still filing today

71%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k 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
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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

  • Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +28%
  • RI
    Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +27%
  • MH
    MISERICORDIA HOME
    5× · 2020–2024 · $900k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • MC
    MAYO CLINIC
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CHIC INC
    one grant, 2023 · $60k
  • LR
    LA RABIDA CHILDRENS HOSP & REC CNT
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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
Depaul Community Services Inc

To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses

Health
2
Center for Housing and Health

Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
3
Child Link Inc

Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…

Human Services
4
Respond Now

Respond now connects those in need with health, hunger, and housing services in the chicago southland.

Human Services
5
Lakeside Community Committee

To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.

Human Services
6
Center for Family Services

Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…

Human Services
7
Illinois Presbyterian Home

Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises

Human Services
8
House of the Good Shepherd

House of Good Shepherd serves with love and compassion women and children affected by domestic violence by offering a safe place with opportunities for emotional, educational and spiritual growth, giving hope and continued support for a…

Human Services
9
Rimland Services Nfp

Provide community-based residential housing to adults with autism and/or severe developmental disabilities. also provide developmental training and other supports to this same population.

Human Services
10
You Can Make It

Providing interim housing for men, women and children, social services, homeless services, emergency shelter, and housing in chicago community for the homeless, poor and disadvantaged.

Human Services
11
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
12
Community Supportive Living Systems

To provide additional supportive housing, social, health, and other human services to the indigent and special needs individuals of chicago's inner city population and transitioning the homeless to a life of self- sufficiency and stability.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. 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

204 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. 204 of the 301 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
44
Early backer (in before they grew)
204/204
Grantees still filing
165/204
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAYO CLINIC: $4,275,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $2,650,000 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of ChicagoRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $2,500,000 · HealthRehabilitation Institute of Chicago+19 more: $414,500 · HealthNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY FOR FEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OFFICE DEVELOPMENT: $1,350,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY FOR FEINBERG S…MAYO CLINIC: $1,000,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICNORTHWESTERN UNIVERISTY FOR FEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OFFICE DEVE: $850,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN UNIVERISTY FOR FEINBERG S…NORTHWEST COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $429,000 · OtherNORTHWEST COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES FO…NORTHWEST COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATAION: $286,000 · Other+96 more: $2,436,011 · Other+96 moreMISERICORDIA HOME: $900,000 · Human ServicesMISERICORD…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA: $150,000 · Human ServicesRONALD MCD…+42 more: $769,000 · Human Services+42 moreDEBORAH'S PLACE: $39,000 · Housing & ShelterWINGS PROGRAM INC: $38,000 · Housing & ShelterCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $34,000 · Housing & ShelterHome of the Sparrow Inc: $33,000 · Housing & ShelterDUPAGE PADS INC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC: $21,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterSARAH'S CIRCLE: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterMATTHEW HOUSE INC: $19,000 · Housing & ShelterFellowship Housing Corporation: $19,000 · Housing & ShelterNORTH SIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES: $18,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING FORWARD: $16,000 · Housing & ShelterREBUILDING TOGETHER NORTH SUBURBAN CHICAGO: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterLA CASA NORTE: $15,000 · Housing & Shelter+6 more: $61,000 · Housing & ShelterLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $126,793 · EducationIllinois College of Optometry: $30,000 · EducationNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $45,000 · Food & NutritionBEYOND HUNGER: $40,000 · Food & NutritionAURORA AREA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY: $21,000 · Food & NutritionOperation Blessing of Southwest Chicagoland: $18,000 · Food & NutritionILLINOIS PARTNERS IN HOPE NFP: $10,000 · Food & NutritionThe Friendship Center: $9,000 · Food & NutritionAVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $24,655 · EmploymentTHE LAMBS FARM INC: $20,000 · EmploymentHAVE DREAMS: $8,000 · Employment
Health$9,839,500Other$6,351,011Human Services$1,819,000Housing & Shelter$433,000Education$156,793Food & Nutrition$143,000Employment$52,655

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAYO CLINIC: $4,275,000 over 4y, 0.0% of 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 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.

  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds MISERICORDIA HOME ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES MIDWEST MN WI IA ↗
  • Who funds GIFT OF LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Community Health NFP ↗
  • Who funds BEYOND HUNGER ↗
  • Who funds DEBORAH'S PLACE ↗
  • Who funds IMD Guest House Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WINGS PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds COOL MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds SISTERHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds EASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY REGION ↗
  • Who funds WILL GRUNDY MEDICAL CLINIC ↗

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 Metropo…Blowitz-Ridgeway Foun…Andrew and Alice Fisc…Helen V Brach Foundat…Northwestern Memorial…WP & HB White Foundat…Circle of Service Fou…The a Montgomery Ward…Polk Bros Foundation …Visiting Nurse Associ…Dr Scholl FoundationAll Chicago Making Ho…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    78report 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, 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 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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