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Goldberg Kohn Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SECURED FINANCE FOUNDATION | $22,500 |
| CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION'S INVESTING IN JUSTICE CAMPAIGN | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL CHARTER SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NOBLE SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF GREATER CLEVELAND | $3,500 |
| NAMASTE CHARTER SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| PROSPECT SCHOOLS | $3,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC | $2,500 |
| BOUNCE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN COLLEGE OF BANKRUPTCY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BLOOD CANCER UNITED | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
31 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- SFSECURED FINANCE FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $148k · revenue +38%
- MFMetropolitan Family Services7× · 2018–2025 · $60k · revenue +245%
- TCTHE CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $60k · revenue +262%
Funded once
- SFSFNET FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- TWTHE WOMEN'S BOARD OF RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 84 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 SECURED FINANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW ↗
- Who funds WORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ANTI-FRAUD COALITION ↗
- Who funds Role Model Movement Inc (NFP) ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF BANKRUPTCY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAMASTE CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS LEGAL AID ONLINE ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds NUASIN NEXT GENERATION CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Katten Muchin Rosenman Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Illinois Bar Foundation · The Chicago Bar Foundation · Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois · Illinois Equal Justice 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 Goldberg Kohn 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.
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
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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