· Public charity
Glasser and Rosenthal Family Foundation
The Foundation is organized and operated to foster, support, develop and maintain charitable activities and vital human and educational services by supporting and carrying out the charitable purposes of The Chicago Community Trust and The Chicago Community Foundation by such means as the board of directors of the organization may…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- $10k–50k7 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+4 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Chicago Community Foundation | $1,270,000 |
| The Chicago Community Trust | $890,000 |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $256,613 |
| Chicago Coalition for the Homeless | $256,613 |
| Erie Family Health Center Inc | $100,000 |
| Lincoln Park Zoological Society | $100,000 |
| Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights | $100,000 |
| Automotive Mentoring Group Inc | $100,000 |
| Museum of Science and Industry | $100,000 |
| International Neighborhood Collaborative | $100,000 |
| The Posse Foundation Inc | $100,000 |
| Chicago High School for the Arts | $100,000 |
| Jewish United Fund of Chicago | $100,000 |
| John G Shedd Aquarium | $100,000 |
| Reflections Foundation | $80,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +87% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- RFREFLECTION FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2021 · $125k · revenue +217%
- AMAUTOMOTIVE MENTORING GROUP INC2× · 2018–2021 · $110k · revenue +120% · 45% of their budget
- INInternational Neighborhood Collaborative2× · 2018–2021 · $110k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- CCCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESSone grant, 2021 · $257k · revenue +4%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORYone grant, 2021 · $257k · revenue -14%- TCTHE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTSone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government,…
Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
The chicagoland chamber of commerce combines the power of people, with our legacy of leadership and business advocacy, to drive a dynamic economy. we focus on delivering value for our members, making chicagoland a world-class place to live…
To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.
Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.
Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers, through its Midtown Center for boys and Metro Achievement Center for girls, helps close the achievement gap for Chicago's urban youth ages eight through eighteen.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Math Circles of Chicago and the most unlike its peers is Latinas On the Plaza. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 17. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 31 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 The Chicago Community Trust ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds I Grow Chicago NFP ↗
- Who funds REFLECTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUTOMOTIVE MENTORING GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds International Neighborhood Collaborative ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights ↗
- Who funds Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ↗
- Who funds Erie Family Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds KUSANYA CAFE INC ↗
- Who funds EN LAS TABLAS PERFORMING ARTS NFP ↗
- Who funds CREATIVETS ↗
- Who funds LATINAS ON THE PLAZA ↗
- Who funds LOST BOYZINC ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MATH CIRCLES OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds ONE ON ONE ↗
- Who funds OPTIONS FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds ERASING THE DISTANCE ↗
- Who funds BANDWITH MUSIC LTD ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Allstate Foundation · D and R Fund · Susan Crown Exchange Inc · Reva and David Logan Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · AbbVie 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 Glasser and Rosenthal 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.
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.
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