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Goldberg Kohn Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$88k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$153kPhilanthropy$136kCrime & Legal$125kCivil Rights$121kHuman Services$97kHealth$90kCommunity Improvement$75kPublic Benefit$42kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $53k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$34k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$5,000
CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION$5,000
NOBLE SCHOOLS$5,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$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
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF BANKRUPTCY FOUNDATION$1,000
BOUNCE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$1,000
BLOOD CANCER UNITED$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $15k → 16%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $5k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $5k → 14%THE INNER VOICE: $1k → 14%THE INNER VOICE: $1k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $15k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
DE
TN
DC
FL
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$776k · 31 repeat orgs$205k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
48

Total granted

$776k
$184k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+32%

Still filing today

87%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationCrime & LegalHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SF
    SECURED FINANCE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $148k · revenue +58%
  • TC
    THE CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $60k · revenue +262%
  • MF
    Metropolitan Family Services
    7× · 2018–2025 · $60k · revenue +245%

Funded once

  • SF
    SFNET FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • CR
    CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
Chicago Public Education Fund

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.

Education
2
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
3
National Opinion Research Center

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…

Social Science
4
The Common Application Inc

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…

Education
5
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
6
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
7
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

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…

Health
8
Council for Court Excellence

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.

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9
Kipp Chicago Schools

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…

Education
10
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
11
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit
12
Legal Aid Chicago

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…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 84 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
54/56
Grantees still filing
38/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION'S INVESTING IN JUSTICE CAMPAIGN: $30,000 · OtherCHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION'S INVESTING…SFNET FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherSFNET FOUNDATIONISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $10,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherTHE WOMEN'S BOARD OF RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 · OtherNOBLE SCHOOLS: $10,000 · OtherCAMP RAMAH: $10,000 · OtherAUXILIARY OF THE WOMAN'S BOARD OF RUMC: $10,000 · OtherRICHSTONE FAMILY CENTER: $10,000 · OtherFeeding America: $32,000 · OtherFeeding AmericaRole Model Movement Inc (NFP): $34,500 · OtherRole Model Movement Inc (NFP)AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10,000 · Other+32 more: $89,000 · Other+32 moreTHE CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationTHE CHICAGO BAR FOU…THE ANTI-FRAUD COALITION: $39,500 · EducationTHE ANTI-FRAUD COAL…FRIENDS OF EDUCATION: $12,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF EDUCATIO…PREP FOR PREP: $10,000 · EducationPREP FOR PREPCHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationCHICAGO CHARTER SCH…AMERICAN COLLEGE OF BANKRUPTCY FOUNDATION: $7,000 · EducationNAMASTE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $6,000 · EducationPROSPECT SCHOOLS INC: $5,500 · Education+4 more: $15,000 · Education+4 moreSECURED FINANCE FOUNDATION: $147,500 · PhilanthropySECURED FINANCE FO…JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $10,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND…SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW: $112,000 · Crime & LegalSHRIVER CENTER…ILLINOIS LEGAL AID ONLINE: $6,000 · Crime & LegalCABRINI GREEN LEGAL AID: $5,000 · Crime & Legal+2 more: $4,500 · Crime & LegalMetropolitan Family Services: $60,000 · Human ServicesMetropolit…CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO…+2 more: $4,000 · Human ServicesWORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO: $75,000 · Community ImprovementCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $17,500 · HealthLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $14,500 · HealthBRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $7,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,250 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · HealthUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $3,500 · HealthALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $3,250 · Health+8 more: $8,800 · Health
Other$295,750Education$165,000Philanthropy$157,500Crime & Legal$127,500Human Services$94,000Community Improvement$75,000Health$65,300

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 budgetSECURED FINANCE FOUNDATION: $147,500 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetSHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW: $112,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services: $60,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANTI-FRAUD COALITION: $39,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetRole Model Movement Inc (NFP): $34,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFeeding America: $32,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $14,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF EDUCATION: $12,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $10,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $9,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN COLLEGE OF BANKRUPTCY FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNAMASTE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetILLINOIS LEGAL AID ONLINE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPROSPECT SCHOOLS INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNUASIN NEXT GENERATION CHARTER SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Interest Law Initiative: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONSOURCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEEONE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLegal Council for Health Justice: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC OF THE BAROQUE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO VETERANS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Polk Bros Foundation …The Sidley Austin Fou…Robert R McCormick Fo…United Way of Metropo…The Chicago Community…Katten Muchin Rosenma…John D and Catherine …AbbVie FoundationIllinois Bar Foundati…The Chicago Bar Found…Lawyers Trust Fund of…Illinois Equal Justic…
Polk Bros Foundation IncIL21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Goldberg Kohn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Goldberg Kohn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
16report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Goldberg Kohn Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Goldberg Kohn Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 84 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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