· Private foundation
Goldenberg Max Tw M G 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $368k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANN & ROBERT LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $30,000 |
| LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $20,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF METRO CHICAGO | $20,000 |
| ST XAVIER UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES | $18,000 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES (JCFS | $15,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CHICAGO | $15,000 |
| THE ARK FOOD PANTRY | $15,000 |
| ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| CONGRESS OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS | $12,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $308k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% 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.
63 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 11 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
Northwestern University8× · 2018–2025 · $181k · revenue +33%- SXSAINT XAVIER UNIVERSITY8× · 2018–2025 · $170k · revenue +23%
- LULOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO6× · 2020–2025 · $127k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- ARANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'Sone grant, 2018 · $29k
- JCJEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES (JCFone grant, 2022 · $13k
- CTCHRIST THE KING JESUIT COLLEGE PREPone grant, 2021 · $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.
We, loyola university health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.lumc is a member of loyola university health system and trinity…
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
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…
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
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…
Joint Commission evaluates and accredits health care organizations and programs across the United States to ensure compliance with rigorous standards of quality and safety, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)…
It is the mission of sinnissippi centers, inc. to provide quality, coordinated and responsive behavioral healthcare services to individuals, families and the communities we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind Or Visually Impaired and the most unlike its peers is Robins Historical Society and Museum. 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 47 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
83 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. 83 of the 137 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 Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds SAINT XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Roosevelt University ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds NORTH PARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NORTH SIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds American Brain Tumor Association ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds University of South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ↗
- Who funds THE HEKTOEN INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds KOHL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
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: George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · WP & HB White Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Carl R Hendrickson Family Fdn · Helen V Brach Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Greater Chicago Food Depository · Sueske W & C Charitable Tr 21580
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 Goldenberg Max Tw M G 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.
- The National Federation of the Blind — 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.