· Public charity
Goodman Supporting Foundation
The foundation is organized to foster, promote, support, develop, and maintain the broad charitable, educational or religious purposes or functions as authorized by the charter of the jewish federation of metropolitan chicago and the by-laws of the foundation.
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89% of Goodman Supporting Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Metropolitan Chicago, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Goodman Supporting Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $470k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- $50k–250k4 grants · $220k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The ARK | $250,000 |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $70,000 |
| Direct Relief | $50,000 |
| American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $50,000 |
| World Central Kitchen | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $250k) 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
10 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE ARK ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
- Who funds United Jewish Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Goodman Supporting Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Goodman Supporting Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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