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Golder Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$537k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.2MPhilanthropy$425kReligion$410kArts & Culture$331kHealth$320kCivil Rights$183kFood & Nutrition$116kPublic Safety & Disaster$65kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $300k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $201k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH UNITED FUND$51,000
NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER$50,000
GOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION$50,000
ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & ED CENTER$50,000
NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS$42,500
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION$40,000
THE ARK$30,000
JOYCE UPTOWN FOODSHELF$30,000
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY$25,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$20,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$20,000
OPEN COMMUNITIES$15,000
LAMBS FARM$15,000
BBYO$12,500
CHICAGO COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $149k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE CENTER OF ANNA MARIA ISLAND: $2k → 10%FLORIDA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $1k → 19%FLORIDA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $1k → 19%FLORIDA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $1k → 19%FLORIDA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $1k → 19%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $30k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $11k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $7k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $3k → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $50k → 14%NIGHT MINISTRY: $3k → 14%NIGHT MINISTRY: $3k → 14%NIGHT MINISTRY: $2k → 14%NIGHT MINISTRY: $2k → 14%NIGHT MINISTRY: $2k → 14%NIGHT MINISTRY: $2k → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 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

MT
MN
IL
NY
IA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
AR
DC
HI
GA
TX
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 60 repeat orgs$187k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

60 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
31

Total granted

$3.7M
$113k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+2%

Still filing today

73%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    8× · 2018–2025 · $471k · revenue +34%
  • GA
    GOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING
    9× · 2017–2025 · $469k · revenue +214%
  • University of Illinois Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $360k · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE HIGHWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -72%
  • TJ
    TEMPLE JEREMIAH
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • IF
    ISU FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $17k
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
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
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
3
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
4
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
5
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
6
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
7
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
10
American Academy of Neurology

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

Community Improvement
11
Junior Achievement of Chicago

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

International
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc; the most unlike its peers is Indigenous Environmental Network. 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

66 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. 66 of the 96 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/66
Grantees still filing
51/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING: $468,500 · OtherGOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHINGHEBREW SEMINARY OF THE DEAF: $140,000 · OtherHEBREW SEMINARY OF THE DEAFCHICAGO COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL: $90,000 · OtherCENTER FOR ENRICHED LEARNING: $87,500 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $82,500 · OtherAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $62,500 · OtherJOYCE UPTOWN FOODSHELF: $74,000 · Other+65 more: $840,970 · Other+65 moreUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $360,000 · EducationUniversity of Illin…NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS: $182,020 · EducationNOBLE NETWORK OF CH…LINK Unlimited Scholars: $69,000 · EducationLINK Unlimited Scho…+5 more: $46,250 · Education+5 moreJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $471,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED…+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $286,000 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST …KOHL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureKOHL CHILD…WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureWINDOW TO …+2 more: $10,250 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $200,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $1,250 · Civil RightsINTERFAITH AMERICA: $200,000 · ReligionEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $150,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $8,000 · Health+3 more: $7,000 · Health
Other$1,845,970Education$657,270Philanthropy$476,000Arts & Culture$371,250Civil Rights$201,250Religion$200,000Health$165,000

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 budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $471,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING: $468,500 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $360,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $286,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $200,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH AMERICA: $200,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS: $182,020 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW SEMINARY OF THE DEAF: $140,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $82,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetJOYCE UPTOWN FOODSHELF: $74,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetLINK Unlimited Scholars: $69,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $62,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC: $54,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $52,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKOHL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOPEN COMMUNITIES: $42,750 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $42,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAMBS FARM INC: $32,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNSSRA FOUNDATION: $28,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $24,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGHWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNorth Chicago Community Partners: $20,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $14,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS: $12,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Child and Family Services: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $10,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAN DO CANINES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget360 Communities: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED HEROES LEAGUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $4,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Kesher: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANNA MARIA ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER: $2,020 over 1y, 0.1% 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 JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds GOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING ↗
  • Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds Endeavor Health Clinical Operations ↗
  • Who funds HEBREW SEMINARY OF THE DEAF ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
  • Who funds JOYCE UPTOWN FOODSHELF ↗
  • Who funds LINK Unlimited Scholars ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
  • Who funds KOHL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER ↗
  • Who funds OPEN COMMUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds THE LAMBS FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds NSSRA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGHWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds North Chicago Community Partners ↗
  • Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗

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.

The Chicago Community…Jewish Federation of …Circle of Service Fou…The Lake County Commu…John and Kathleen Sch…First Bank Chicago Fo…Robert R McCormick Fo…AbbVie FoundationThe Gorter Family Fou…Give N KindUnited Way of Metropo…National Philanthropi…
The Chicago Community TrustIL21.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Circle of Service Foundation · The Lake County Community Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · First Bank Chicago Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Gorter Family Foundation · Give N Kind · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
21report 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 96 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home